#Ghost patrick swayze theme song movie
In the posting above we should have acknowledged the use of material from the blog Hip Hop is Read. The movie entitled Ghost featured Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze and was rated PG-13 in the States. This clarification was appended on Friday 18 September 2009. Or perhaps his name will gradually drop out of the hip-hop lexicon altogether, to be replaced by George Clooney (rhymes with "loony"), Robbie Coltrane ("insane") or Barbra Streisand in Yentl (you get the idea). Now that Swayze is himself Swayze, maybe we'll witness a fresh trend for the use of the word among the hip-hop fraternity.
The plot centers on Sam Wheat (Swayze), a murdered banker, whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend, Molly Jensen. Curiously, Jay-Z didn't appear to care for the term, despite the possibilities afforded by the rhyme with his own name. Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy thriller film directed by Jerry Zucker from a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli and Rick Aviles. Ice-T and his Sex, Money & Gunz crew even had a song called Swazy, essentially warning wannabe girlfriends that they didn't intend to stick around for cuddles after sex. "Out of her fuckin' mind, now I got mine, I'm Swayze" growled Method Man on Bring The Pain, rhyming it with "Driving Miss Daisy" and still managing to sound thoroughly menacing. His mother owned a dance school in Houston, where Patrick was also a student. The newly-coined term was a favourite for Notorious BIG: "That's why I bust back, it don't faze me/ When he drop, take his glock and I'm Swayze" he boasted in 1994 on 2Pac's Runnin' (Dying To Live). Patrick Wayne Swayze was born on August 18, 1952, in Houston, Texas, to Patsy Swayze (Yvonne Helen Karnes), a choreographer, and Jesse Wayne Swayze, a chemical plant engineer draftsman. Hip-hop historians believe that it was originally a reference to Patrick Swayze's titular role in the film Ghost, as evidenced by EPMD in their 1992 song It's Going Down, from the Juice soundtrack: "Now I'm Swayze, ghost, the rap host." In the 90s, the word "Swayze" even took on a life of its own within rap, coming to mean "gone" or "outta here", as in: "We dropped the microphone, then we Swayze" (Tha Alkaholiks). Yet the crazy Swayze couplet was still going strong long after Patrick's movie career had foundered, as evidenced by Young Jeezy's 2007 track And Then What, in which the Atlanta coke-rapper followed the familiar boast "I'm so crazy" by declaring that, "these other rappers actors like Patrick Swayze". Why? Because his name rhymes with "crazy", of course.Īn early use of the Swayze/crazy rhyme scheme was demonstrated by Kool G Rap on Marley Marl's The Symphony Part II back in 1991, presumably referring to his performance in Roadhouse rather than in Dirty Dancing: "Reach for the pistol and you're crazy/ Try to blast and I'll be swinging that ass like Patrick Swayze." Well yes, actually – the Hollywood beefcake was a favourite namecheck for many rappers, and far more likely to be referenced than, say, Richard Gere or Mel Gibson. "Influence on hip-hop?" I hear you scream. It is showed when Sam walks toward the Afterlife at the end of the movie, where he mixes with a lot of spirits who wait for him (as they appear in diffuse figures in blue, it's impossible to know if they are Sam's friends or familiars).Read the numerous obituaries for Patrick Swayze and one thing seems to have been forgotten: his influence on hip-hop. The third part is people, maybe friends and familiars, who wait to receive the recent dead to the Afterlife. The second part is the idea of black spirits who capture the souls of bad people to take to other side of the Afterlife, called Lower Astral, a place similar to Judeo-Christian Hell to punish and torture them. Swayze has an important piece of information he needs to get to her: His death was not an act of random urban violence. Between them, the concept of a light white tunnel, which appears when a person dies to take his soul to the Afterlife (in the movie it appears three times: when Sam dies, when a man dies in an operating room, and when Sam saves Oda Mae and Molly, completing his unfinished business). In 'Ghost,' Patrick Swayze plays an investment counselor who is killed by a mugger one night, but remains on the scene in his spirit form to observe as his lover weeps and mourns and then attempts to piece her life together.
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Raymond Moody and published in 1975, a series of compilations about people who by a brief time were dead and later lived again, called NDE or Near-Death Experience. Part of the events seen in the movie are taken indirectly from the book "Life After Life", written by Dr.