2008-09-30 ::
Ed McMahon Dons 'Rap' Character for Music Video
 
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Former 'Tonight Show' host Ed McMahon will be appearing in rap videos for FreeCreditReport.com, which is a financial website owned by credit bureau Experian. The videos will feature the 85 year-old wearing the stereotypical rapper outfit, including a sweat suit, and large necklaces, riding around in a Cadillac Escalade golf cart in different parts of Los Angeles.

McMahon will be performing raps that deal with his personal fight with financial woes. The videos will not up uploaded until the middle of October.

"I knew I could sing the blues, but I didn't know I could rap," he said.

Charles Harris, the vice president of strategic marketing at FreeCreditReport.com, said that the company found McMahon while he was on the Larry King Live Show discussing his financial problems, but being humorous about it. Harris called him "a man who is taking charge."

In one video, McMahon is seen with a bodyguard cruising through a neighborhood looking for sweepstakes winners and asking for money, but McMahon does not actually ask. In the next one, McMahon rises above his financial problems and creates a new image for himself- including a new suit. The ideas of this video actually came from McMahon himself. He originally pitched the idea to the American Family Publishing Sweepstakes contest.

McMahon's rap goes a little something like this:

"When I retired, I was famous/ I had money and glory / I bought a house for 6 mill / I thought nothing could touch me / Until my credit went south, and debt started to crunch me / Next thing I know, instead of playing gin rummy, I was scrambling just to make ends meet / It wasn't funny."

Cue the voluptuous models walking to either side of McMahon:

"Got a bump from the media chumps, but that was temporary / Wife with bad credit was scary, so I got wise / I may have fallen, but I got back up / Now I'm back on the attack, like a ninja swinging nunchucks / I told the haters, 'Go on, take a hike' / It's my show now, and I can do what I like."

McMahon reportedly spent a full day in the studio recording the rap, and hopes that the viewers of the video will learn from his mistakes and get more serious about their finances. When asked jokingly about if he'd consider releasing a full-length rap album, he replied, “Not immediately.”


Our Thoughts
After experiencing it first-hand, McMahon is doing a good thing by trying to help out viewers who could be close to bankruptcy and need somewhere to turn to.