"We're in Brazil what a thrill..."
But where do you stand, currently, on the magic of San Clemente’s Griffin Colapinto? The 26-year-old forever young surf title hopeful thrills both on, and off, the clock, these days, what with wild anecdotes of pre-competition surf rituals, a dating life that mirrors David Wooderson’s iconic ideals, a real shot at bringing the $30,000 World Surf League cup home to San Clemente for the first time since Filipe Toledo in 2023.
Colapinto is a philosopher, a mystic and, now, a freestyle rapper.
The current world number six stunned World Surf League commenters Mitchell Saladbar and Chris Cote when he began spitting homemade rhymes from the proverbial glass.
Dropping into a delicate beatbox first, Colapinto let the heat flow.
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We’re in Brazil what a thrill.
Who’s gonna make a killing on these waves.
Italo’s out there flipping around Kobe’s (?) going to town what are you going to say?
Saquarema-town.
Hey.
Don’t turn that frown…
Or no.
Turn that frown upside down because we’re in Saq-town.
Boom.
Mic drop.
“That was amazing,” on glass interviewer exploded.
Eminem very likely busting out his pencil and paper to come up with response even as you read.
David Lee Scales and I discussed briefly during our weekly chat alongside a deeper dive into the pure joy of slip n’ slides. Are you slip n’ sliding right now on this day celebrating America’s independence from cruel Great Britain? A fine way to celebrate.
Listen here whilst breaking a hip.
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I’m surprised Griff didn’t start freestylin the old Winger song “She’s Only 17”. Now that would be worthy of a HamSammish!
I heard there’s an opening for Director of Freak Offs.
wat’ up Griff Diddy?
Wonder why he didn’t include “under-age bitches ” in there somewhere?
“omg, that’s sooooo cringe” as my daughter would say.
Aside from the general awfulness of it, just who is this Kobe (who is supposedly going to town) ?
Through Griffs pronunciation I’m inclined to think it’s spelt Cobby, and he’s actually referring to his brother Crosby, who’s going to suck ya reamer town.
Ok so Griffy might not be storming the charts anytime soon, but what does his girlfriend (and more importantly, her schoolmates) think of it.
Are they part of the 150,000 fleeing from his ‘gram ?
Will he now be looking for a new cradle to snatch ?
The confidence he shows here is unmatched. It might be our moral and ethical duty to bully this young man.
The last thing surfing needs now, is more degradation—with, by, rap.
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as of today, ICE will now be better funded than the U.S. Marines and the FBI put together. Happy 4th of July everyone—we now have an absurdly well funded de facto federal police force!
Can someone here combine his rap with RayGun’s up-rocking for something truly uncomfortable?
The bass line in Money by pink Floyd is counted, 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
This is counted 1 2 3 4 5 6 sev en
Is pastor something to do with pineapple on a skewer atop a chunk of meat? Nevermind, I am joyously exuberantly celebrating (while watching Wimby – but somewhat hard to care too much because their supastars suffer from the same blancmange as our friends on the wozzlsupashow – more arsehole less journey is the plot we need) the success of the BBB and the simultaneous end of America’s era as a world power (yes, they have bombs that possibly work but they have no friends who trust them, who are worth a lot more than than things that go boom boom). Ice ice baby, how fucked is that? Totally fukked.
Like an oversized rotisserie pig, Biggie is spinning in his grave.
That was like 100 years ago in commenter’s time…
Word up!
Sorry. Brazil flew right under my ray-gun.