"That Loud-Assed Colored Silence: SCAT."
You know, there's a great story that--
it's apocryphal, apocryphal story,
that Louis Armstrong invented scat
when he was performing and recording.
And he was doing a really good take but he dropped his music,
and so instead of stopping and ruining the tape,
he's just like [SCATTING],, like that kind of thing.
And it's interesting, because there's
a similar apocryphal story in "Planet Rock", that Afrika
Bambaataa song.
[SCATTING] Right?
That was because of forgetting the lyrics.
But anyway, "SCAT, That Loud-Assed Colored Silence."
[DRUM BEAT]
Scat is a shitty way to say it is shit
that falls down which that.
Scat is a shitty way to say it is shit that falls down
which that to be shit.
Isn't there something of nothing to be shit?
Isn't there something or nothing?
[SCATTING]
If the tongue is a reed, the teeth are sheet music.
Show them your score of music notes.
[SCATTING]
Tuxedo your stance where you're wanted and play yourself,
shut the fuck, before that mess mess our dichty diction.
[SCATTING]