{"id":708,"date":"2005-08-05T18:11:33","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2005-08-05T18:11:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T01:11:33","slug":"hip-hop-argot-meets-corporate-cant-all-to-sell-chryslers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/hip-hop-argot-meets-corporate-cant-all-to-sell-chryslers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hip-Hop Argot Meets Corporate Cant, All to Sell Chryslers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2005\/08\/05\/automobiles\/05autos162.jpg\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"7\" hspace=\"7\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/05\/automobiles\/05auto.html\">NYT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><I>In the commercial, Snoop pulls up in a Dodge truck and, as he emerges, Mr. Iacocca says &#8220;nice ride.&#8221; Snoop begins to let forth in his inimitable linguistics, a trademark of Mr. Broadus, as the two men go for a ride in the golf cart: Snoop: &#8220;Thank you Mocha Cocca. Chrysler and Jeep came up on beaucoup awards and Dodge trucks last as long as the D-O-double gizzle. Plus, I got the hook up nephew, for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iacocca, looking puzzled: &#8220;You know, I&#8217;m not too sure what you just said. Now everybody gets a great deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Snoop: &#8220;Fo shizzle, I-ka-zizzle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A narrator then explains the offers. Both men wear pink shirts, but their fashion sense mostly diverges from there. The rapper, whose taste in golf apparel was seen in the movie &#8220;Starsky and Hutch,&#8221; also sports an argyle sweater embossed with his S-D logo, a white hat, sunglasses and pants checkered white, pink and blue. Mr. Iacocca wears more traditional golf attire.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the commercial, Snoop Dogg translates Mr. Iacocca&#8217;s famous tagline &#8211; if you can find a better car, buy it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the ride is more fly,&#8221; he says, &#8220;then you must buy.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: In the commercial, Snoop pulls up in a Dodge truck and, as he emerges, Mr. Iacocca says &#8220;nice ride.&#8221; Snoop begins to let forth in his inimitable linguistics, a trademark of Mr. Broadus, as the two men go for a ride in the golf cart: Snoop: &#8220;Thank you Mocha Cocca. Chrysler and Jeep came up on beaucoup awards and Dodge trucks last as long as the D-O-double gizzle. Plus, I got the hook up nephew, for sure.&#8221; Iacocca, looking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-humor","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}