You’re likely unprepared for this ridiculous Panthers hype video
You’ve seen the matchups. You’ve considered the MVP quarterbacks. You’ve taken all football factors — home field, weather, injuries — into account when weighing Arizona Cardinals at Carolina Panthers in the NFC championship game.
Now sit back and enjoy the most sublimely insane element to this game. To any game anywhere. To music as you know it, for that matter: A Panthers hype video that will haunt your dreams up until and well after kickoff.
Ked Woodley is a 50-year-old freestyle rapper and former BBQ restaurant waiter from Greenville, N.C. and he has performed a song, “Dominate The Foe,” about his beloved Panthers. it comes from the heart and contains lyrics such as:
You dig the NFL,
My lyrics and my rhymes;
You eat up what I’m saying
Spittin’ fly hip-hop lyrics
Lightnin’-fast
Big black cats
Panthers kickin’ ass
And:
Wanna holla at your Top Cats
Who cheer and turn us on;
Gimme them digits
I’ll call you on the phone
Lightnin’-fast
Big black cats
Panthers kickin’ ass
Oh yes, dear friends, it’s as smooth on the ears as it reads to the eyes. And for the uninitiated, the Top Cats are the Panthers’ official cheer unit. The fine women who make up that team should be aware of Mr. Woodley’s existence, we feel.
Woodley recorded the song — in one take! — in a friend’s front yard, a makeshift outdoor studio if you will, and dropped it one week before Christmas. No gift we’ve received until now as surpassed it. In an interview with the Charlotte Observer, Woodley mentions how the video has caught fire in the past few days from a couple hundred views to more than 120,000 as of this writing.
That’s what brilliance does for the promising YouTube artist. And when you watch it, be sure to wait for Woodley’s growl — so much better than that cat sound they play over the house PA.
Check out what Woodley said, apparently completely without tongue in cheek, about his songwriting and performing efforts to the Observer:
“I just thought, I will make an attempt to try and write as good an NFL rap song as anybody’s done, or at least one that can maybe stand tall with the best of ’em,” he said. “Many times I quit writing the song, ’cause it wasn’t as easy as I wished it would be. So I stopped and started probably over a dozen times until i felt like, hey, I’ve got something here that I think fans of football … would enjoy.
“I really look forward to somebody maybe helping me come up with some better music, like, better than just the drum machine beat. It’s better than nothing, but I’m sure that it can be much better musically. And we could even maybe get a rapper – an experienced rapper – to do the song, which would probably make it more popular around the world.”
Has Cam Newton heard this tune yet? We’d love his take on it. Maybe Woodley would have his partner to sing right there.
By the end of the song, Woodley promises a Panthers Super Bowl even while lamenting what he has paid for tickets, but it all will be worth it, we say. As long as there is a follow-up version, Super Bowl edition. The listeners demand it.
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Eric Edholm is a writer for Shutdown Corner on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter! Follow @Eric_Edholm
