Yeah, no, the video's not gonna go like that, but let me
give you my thoughts.
Actually first, let me slip into my
Accent, we are going Greek for this video.
So Ja Rule made an ad for Papa Cristo-- Not
so much.
So Ja Rule made ad for Papa Cristo a Greek
Restaurant in the USA.
And it's ehhh... How do I put this...
It's special...
If you don't mind the garlic breath, tzatziki
is the nectar of the Gods man, it's so good.
Oktapodakia?
Yeah, it's basically roasted octapus but we don't pronounce or even write the O at the start
Yeah, that IS a dish but no one makes it and no one eats it.
It can be a sauce,but no one will eat it as
is, I don't know why they would advertize that
Literally meatpie, we don't eat it as takeout
food, but it's great.
The people who think this is over the top, are the people that haven't tasted Greek food.
Every minute a Greek Mama is getting slapped from people that order takeout
In the USA it's pretty rare that they serve
actually good Greek food.
Like, I remember in the Big Bang
Theory they ordered lamb kebab First of all,
if you call a souvlaki, kebab in Greece you
will get shot, and second, no one eats fucking
lamb souvlaki.
We eat pork or
chicken.
I literally have never tasted lamb souvlaki
in my life.
OkI don't want this accent to get stuck this way so... "That's enough of that"
Here are the detai-- Here are the details.
Ja Rule is...
Was?
A pretty successful rapper that fell from
glory after some unfortunate events regarding
tax evasion and illegal gun possession that put him in jail for 2 years.
After some low impact acting attempts, and his wife spreading rumours that he was having
sexual relations with his cellmate, his career was over...
Until...
He created
fyre media and organized the fyre festival--
Ah there it goes down in flames.
For those who don't know, the fire festival
was a huge dumpsterfire of a scam.They
advertized that the visitors would be living
in huge villas in a private island where they
would be attending music festivals of hugely
popular artists and instead they got
... Well, not that.
You should definitely watch the Internet Historian's video on it, it's an incredible documentary
of what transpired in that event.
Anyway, after that...
Ja Rule
disappeared.
Then he popped right back into the spotlight
with this ad.Contrary to what most people
thought, Ja rule didn't make this ad for the
money.
He did it as a part
of his new show, where he helps little businesses
he likes, after they took a hit from the social
distancing measures.
So yeah, it's probably done for publicity
to
overwrite some of the fyre he got for that
music festival.
Lastly about the cultural appropriation thing, I don't believe any Greek will mind.
We are always happy to see our culture being
displayed by other people.
But that use of
opa...
Man, I finally understand how mexican people feel when the white lady responds with "gracias".
Meh, it's fine, see you next time.
Namaste.
Yeah, I wouldn't cast any stones there.
