Chronicles of Narnia Rap

From Slate.com which I found via Fark.com

I don't watch SNL at all any longer. I catch an occassional Tivo because of an actor/actress/band on a wishlist, but other than that I miss the cultural memes that fly from that hackneyed show. While I know that it will never be like it was with the Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time Players, it at least gained more traction during the Eddie Murphy/Joe Piscapo/Phil Hartman. Today I see it in an endless death spiral over the drain. It makes money and spawns off things that make some more money and that's what's important. In any case, I did find this latest sketch very warming and a good homage to the origins of Hip Hop culture.

Parns and Samberg

If you haven't seen Saturday Night Live's Chronicles of Narnia rap, then you don't have any friends. Or at least any friends with Internet access. The two-minute video, which debuted on SNL last Saturday before resurfacing as a much-forwarded "digital short," has accomplished what seemed impossible a week ago—making Saturday Night Live a cultural touchstone for the first time since Christopher Walken pleaded for "more cowbell." The popularity of the Narnia rap might augur a reawakening at SNL—in fact, there are already T-shirts that parrot the song's catchphrases. It's more significant, though, for what it says about the state of rap.