So my daughter is two-plus now and she’s around the age for potty-training. She loves Elmo and most things Sesame Street (that’s my girl), so my wife bought her a DVD called Sesame Street – Elmo’s Potty Time
Long story short, it was MC Front-a-Lot, the greatest nerdcore rapper of them all and the man behind “Which MC Was That?” which is both catchy and hilarious. (Sample lyric: “Was it MC Pain-in-my-ears-just-to-listen? (If it was him I wouldn’t miss him.)” Maybe you just have to hear it.) IMDB confirms that it’s him, as MC Front-a-Lot is just the nom de mic of Damian Hess.
There’s no real point to this other than to express to my surprise at hearing MC Front-A-Lot on a Sesame Street DVD, but I guess someone at Sesame Workshop has good taste.
Glad to see Front a Lot getting paid by the Children’s Television Workshop because he has made clear in rhyme that he’s broke.
The WSJ had a great article on potty training a couple years ago (about rising costs of sending toddlers to day care and the various rules and regs of day care). Anyway, this family came up with a genius idea for potty training their son, who was a HUGE baseball fan. Various family members would call the house as various baseball stars and talk going to the potty with the kid every hour. He’d get a call from his grandpa/Sammy Sosa and brag about coming from the bathroom and brag about going back. Hilarious.
Keith, have you ever heard the real voice of the guy who does Elmo’s voice? I caught him on NPR a couple of years ago. IIRC, it was because he wrote a book about being Elmo’s voice. As you’d expect, he and Elmo sound very different.