I didn't grow up with DC Talk (Evangelism's answer to, oh, I don't know, TLC and second-hand embarrassment), but after watching their VHS DC Talk: Rap, Rock & Soul, which I then re-edited, I wish I had. I would have known during my insecure teenage years that at least someone was wacker than I was. The contents of this video are so gay (and not "gay" as lame, because I don't say that, but actually homoerotic) and Christian that the only way it could speak to me on a more basic level would be to address me by name.
Note: This video marks the start of a kinda-sorta syndication partnership between fourfour and Everything Is Terrible, which I have long considered my cult away from cult. Practically, it means little (probably just some more links back and forth), but spiritually, it means the world to me.
Related
EIT's And Finally Tonight... supercut (one of my all-time favs), on all manner of Jesus sightings
This was so embarrassing and hilarious to watch.
Posted by: Julia | April 04, 2011 at 09:24 AM
There is no way the black guy isn't gay. Right?
Posted by: I think... | April 04, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Oh my dear god, they appeared in an ad for the Christian Television Association on TV in Australia in the mid 90's I think, singing a little ditty called Jesus is Still Alright With Me.
I thought they were just something made up for the commercial, but wow, they ARE or were real.
Hilarious.
Posted by: funnelwebkitten | April 04, 2011 at 10:24 AM
whoa. whoa.
the contents of this video include:
guys eating off the same bone (yes!)
male genital bumping
close ups of sweaty male nipples
Praise the lord!
Posted by: La_chica | April 04, 2011 at 10:32 AM
"IF WE'VE BEEN TO YOUR CITY, WE'VE PROBABLY BEEN TO YOUR MALL."
Posted by: Michael | April 04, 2011 at 12:22 PM
This is one of my faves of your re-edits, I have to say. Who knew that these white-bread, souless twits could give us so much laughter? I have a special little hatred in my heart for these guys...my first ever childhood crush was ruined when he started listening to them and began dressing like the dude in the hat. I was devastated, truly. Mostly because I found out that my taste in boys was seriously lame.
Posted by: torrinpaige | April 04, 2011 at 01:00 PM
My brain could not take the overload. Between the lameness, the gayness, the fuggery, the hilarity and my hatred of religion and the crap like this that it produces, my mind switched into hibernate mode.
Posted by: soulbrotha | April 04, 2011 at 01:24 PM
OMG I GREW UP LISTENING TO DC TALK!! I am pretty sure I still have a picture somewhere of me posing with them after a concert. Wow. When worlds collide - favorite band of childhood meets favorite blogger of adulthood. Seriously, my brain just exploded. DC TALK - Decent Christian Talk. Respeito.
Posted by: Tara | April 04, 2011 at 01:38 PM
I really wish they'd stop high fiving each other after sentence.
AMIRITE MY BROTHER? *high five and lots of laughing for the baby Jesus up in here!*
Posted by: Ohh_MissJones | April 04, 2011 at 01:45 PM
Gosh! *after every sentence.
Posted by: Ohh_MissJones | April 04, 2011 at 01:46 PM
Oh the days when men still wore fanny packs in a non-ironic way
Posted by: sfgirl76 | April 04, 2011 at 02:52 PM
PURE GOLD!
Posted by: Lisa | April 04, 2011 at 03:29 PM
I grew up on them too! I LOVED DC Talk!! This was EARLY on, their music in the late 90's was more of a basic rock.
Posted by: Kat | April 04, 2011 at 04:16 PM
Yay! I love everything is terrible! Great news Rich!
Posted by: Kirsti | April 04, 2011 at 05:20 PM
I counted three closet doors that will be openng and sadly Jeebus will be thrown under the bus.
I call it the John Travolta Syndrome.
Posted by: Jack Jett | April 04, 2011 at 06:28 PM
Count me among those souls raised on DC Talk (not to mention Audio Adrenaline and Steven Curtis Chapman!)
I did love certain songs of theirs, but at a certain point noticed to hokey-ness (middle school?)
I agree with the previous comment that they got less hokey when they gave up on their dream to be the Christian Rap Group. Actually their later stuff didn't have much rapping at all, maybe just a little scatting.
Posted by: Jessica | April 04, 2011 at 07:56 PM
I grew up with DC Talk as well. Remember this? "We're just two honks and a negro . . ."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9cJ__D0S7Y
Posted by: breadandcirce | April 04, 2011 at 10:15 PM
I didn't grow up with DC Talk, per se, but I was aware of them because for 3 years straight, my very christian uncle subscribed me to a christian teen mag and DC Talk was a big focus in at least half of them.
Posted by: Lea | April 05, 2011 at 03:44 AM
Wow, this is awesome. At about halfway through, I wondered what was so gay about it...then I kept watching :)
What's the name of that hopping, straight-arm dance they do at 00:37? Quintessential 90's!
HAPPY 4-4 RICH!
Posted by: Lauren | April 05, 2011 at 06:12 PM
(belated, that is)
Posted by: Lauren | April 05, 2011 at 06:13 PM
hahaha. i know kevin aka k-max and he so totally deserves this.
Posted by: anon | April 05, 2011 at 08:11 PM
Anon: Anyone who has ever been within 50 yards of k-max knows he deserves this.
Michael Tait's always been a genuinely sweet guy in my experience, though.
Posted by: c8h10n4o2 | April 06, 2011 at 11:01 AM
and not "gay" as lame*, because I don't say that
*Anyone else find it ironic that Rich uses ableist language to clarify that he's not using homophobic language?
I can't see the video but I can say that Rich's ability to find the weirdest old footage possible is bordering on super power status at this point.
Posted by: RP | April 06, 2011 at 11:36 AM
I didn't grow up listening to DC Talk but I did know a girl in the early 90s who wore DC Talk shirts to school every day. She once told me that it was her goal to own 365 DC Talk shirts so she could "wear a different one every day".
Posted by: francesca.red@gmail.com | April 06, 2011 at 02:52 PM
I saw DC Talk in concert once when I was 12. What a walk down amnesia lane!
Posted by: katido | April 06, 2011 at 04:33 PM