(C) BoingBoing
Author Name: BoingBoing
This story was originally published on Boingboing.net. [1]
License: CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0.[2]


Today is The Rock's birthday

2022-05-02 00:00:00

My wrestling obsession developed later than most, as I didn't fall in love with the WWE until my early teens. Before that point, I only knew about wrestlers from their cultural omnipresence. If a wrestler didn't transcend the squared circle and elevate themselves into the cultural zeitgeist, I didn't know about them. So, when I finally dropped my aversions to pro wrestling, I became intensely curious about the legendary "Rock."

Within the first fifteen minutes of my very first Rock segment, I became a fan for life, and I mean that without a shred of hyperbole. I've seen every Rock movie, I frequently buy his energy drink, and I memorized his rap song the first day I heard it. Not his meme-worthy ditty "face-off" featuring Tech N9ne; I'm talking about his first rap song with hip hop pioneer Slick Rick.

For decades, the Rock has remained a constant in my life, so I wanted to give the jabroni beating, Hollywood A-lister some love on his birthday. The clip featured above is a brilliant example of how entertaining the Rock was before he fully migrated to Tinseltown.
[END]

[1] URL: https://boingboing.net/2022/05/02/today-is-the-rocks-birthday.html
[2] URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/deed.en_US

BoingBoing via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/rferl/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.