Any of y'all remember this joint??? Apparently it was a minor hit around 2002. I maybe kinda vaguely remember something about it, but dude's name was more what I remember: Choobakka.
So, Wednesday I pull up into Target bangin the fuck outta "Shook Ones", with a can of Rockstar and a lil chicken jr sammich w/pickles from BK. Nice out, I got the windows down and I figure I'mma sit off and finish before going inside to go pick up a few things. Out the corner of my eye, I spot this cat standing near my passenger side on a scooter and he's waving something silver. Antenna goes up, I drop my left hand and put it on my rifle in case it's about to go down and I turn my head. Dude has a CD in an envelope in his hand and he's smiling. Give him the "whaddupdoe?" and he sparks a lil convo about the music, how they don't make it like that anymore and alladat. He then asks me if I ever heard of a cat named "Choobakka" and in the moment it didn't ring a bell and he's like "Yeah, that's me, I had a song that charted at #13 on the rap charts". We chop it up for a sec on some music shits, then he's asks if I have a cd player in the ride and if I'd listen to his CD. I oblige, sharpie CD in the deck, sounds decent... Very much a product of the early-early 2000's, and he's like "if you like it, I'm selling 'em for $10, but if you don't have that much we can work something out. Just happened to have a $10 bill on me so I bought it. We chopped it up a bit more and he went on his way.
I looked dude up: Yeah... It was definitely him. He's got a video on his YT channel playing the drums that looks just like dude, but he's a lot skinnier these days. Checked the comments on the video for the song ^^^ up there and he's homeless living out here in Vegas. Kind of a sad outcome; song that charted, video that made the rounds, 20 years later homeless in a city of lost souls. He was still talking about making music too, which I would imagine happens when you hit that point in your life.
