Watch me almost drown shooting a video

iCONtheMicKing · Post by **iCONtheMicKing** » Tue May 26, 2009 6:01 pm

About 2 weeks ago? I'm not sure how long it's been actually. I'm on tour in Europe and I have no sense of time or day right now. Anyway me and my man Awar are about to drop a record in my "Headphone Classics" series entitled "Drifting with the Tide" b/w "Fall From Grace" & "Sparks Fly" produced by PF favorite Vanderslice.

It's a 2-song/2-part video and the first song "Drifting with the Tide" has strong water imagery. My verse is an extended nautical-mermaid metaphor about chasing unattainable love. Awar's verse deals with betrayal and the like. Real dope song that we did in March of last year and has aged so well in that our verses are more pertinent now than they were when we wrote em.

At the end of the Drifting with the Tide video Awar and I have confrontation on the pier and we fight to the death and our fight lands us in the Hudson river. Me being a true to life artist...there's no CGI for us being in the water...we actually jumped in the Hudson river with all of our clothes on and I nearly drowned. Here's the footage:

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It's ok. You can laugh at me. You see I'm smiling the whole way. Besides had I really drowned I wouldn't have gone in a happier way...I was working on this music that I love. Say what you want about me but don't ever question my dedication.

Also my sneakers were no more ruined than before I jumped in. We threw em in Awar's dryer and they were all good. R.I.P. to my hat & scarf though. I'd just bought them the day before for a combined $7 so it's all good.

Enjoy!

-iCON

YouTube · Post by **Philaflava** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:03 pm

Perpetuating that stereotype.

Piff Tannen · Post by **Piff Tannen** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:03 pm

wild, glad you aint drown nigga. were you just too heavy with the water soakin all your shit no homo

the brow · Post by **the brow** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:14 pm

Philaflava wrote:Perpetuating that stereotype.

Beat me to the punch.

Shup Diddy · Post by **Shup Diddy** » Tue May 26, 2009 7:28 pm

well now you got one more thing in common with danny devito.

iCONtheMicKing · Post by **iCONtheMicKing** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:31 pm

Piff Tannen wrote:wild, glad you aint drown nigga. were you just too heavy with the water soakin all your shit no homo

Thanks and exactly. I had on a thermal and it was hard to move my arms. I kept thinking about that one G.I. Joe PSA when the bol was like "kick your legs like a scissor" and i was treading water that way to stay up but that's incredibly hard when you got on air force ones.

Basically Awar saved my life and swimming is a lot different fully clothed hahaha.

And yeah it's always sunny in Philadelphia. Albany, NY not so much.

edit: I found the G. I. Joe jawn:

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JustDuWitt · Post by **JustDuWitt** » Tue May 26, 2009 8:48 pm

^Haha, nice. Those GI Joe videos were on point.

sean · Post by **sean** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:02 pm

congrats on not being dead.

when will the video be done and viewable?

iCONtheMicKing · Post by **iCONtheMicKing** » Tue May 26, 2009 9:16 pm

sean wrote:congrats on not being dead.

when will the video be done and viewable?

Thanks. I shoulda got swimming lessons from that kid that fell in the water at batofar in Paris.

The video.... Not soon enough. I feel like a little kid on christmas eve or a crack fiend locked in a padded room.

The bol Matt sent me the first draft of the first video the other day...lookin real good..that's where the animation in my sig came from. The video features a mermaid with her boobs out. We having a release party June 26th so it'll get sent to the blogosphere that week.

Boom!

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:13 am

video's not working homie

bring on the mermaid boobies

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Wed May 27, 2009 1:15 am

works now.

man... if you drowned a foot from the dock, that would be hellafied

damn dreadlocks! wet them shits up, that's 50 extra pounds

that's a very nice piece o' scenery!

awaiting

Website · Post by **Random Sample** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:50 am

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Wed May 27, 2009 2:13 pm

Random Sample wrote:

black rappers need water wings

awar · Post by **awar** » Wed May 27, 2009 6:56 pm

Seemed like I was underwater way longer than it looked on camera.

I was the only one who could tell iCON was about to die

I, for one, ruined a pair of AF1s.

It was well worth it. except for that Radioactive 3rd testicle growing out my knee from being submerged in the Hudson for 4.3 seconds. Pause?

Hope everyone digs this shit

Remo the Great · Post by **Remo the Great** » Thu May 28, 2009 1:44 am

This is why chubby black dudes are comin back in style...

We float.