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K-Os — Crabbuckit
Album: Putumayo: A New Groove
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Released: 2007
Length: 3:41
Plays (last 30 days): 2
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It's high now
So low it's high
Like this, check it out yo

Took a trip on a bus that I didn't know
Met a girl sellin' drinks at the disco
Said truth comes back when you let it go
Seems complicated cause it's really so simple
Walkin' down Yonge Street on a Friday
Can't follow them, gotta do it my way
No fast lane, still on a highway
Movin' in and out, no doubt there's a brighter day

[Chorus x2:]
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
Ahh, haa... Check out the crabs in the bucket

It's like this, It's like this...
It's like fly in a room, scream, writing on walls
Swear this clone been havin' a ball
Claimin' themselves just before last call
Tic-a-tic-a-toc tic-a-tic-a-toc
Clock strikes twelve, clock strikes one
Smoking gun put these fools on the run
I know it's not that simple, I know it's not that hard
Where's your goal

[Chorus x2:]
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
Ahh, haa... Check out the crabs in the bucket

Yeah na I mean
Yeah, I heard you man, yo, check, yo, yo

It's a conniption, fit when the microphones lit
I take it higher like a bird on a wire, retire the fire
I'll never cause I'm just moving on up
Choosin' to touch, the unseen, craving the clutch
The most inevitable, legible pyro-mania
Slaying the devil, and send him back to Transylvania
Strangely enough, I avoid that side of the ghetto
From my heavy metal, will settle the puppets like Jepeto
Damm, if mirrors where created by sand
Then I'm looking in the water for reflections of man
Understand the minds above time when it's empty
Emcee, tragically hip, ahead by a century, rrahh

[Chorus x2:]
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
No time to get down cause I'm moving up
Ahh, haa... Check out the crabs in the bucket
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Check out the version of this by The Good Lovelies, it's quite fun- some awesome harmonies.
Posted 2 days ago by JasonMaggini    [ Reply ]
Didn't someone else, also played on RP, do this as well?
Posted 2 days ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Bought this album ten years ago after hearing it on RP.  The whole album is great.
Posted 6 years ago by oppositelock    [ Reply ]
Is this about sexually transmitted lice?
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
Did somebody say "crabs in the bucket"?


Posted 11 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
New song for me. Great metaphor!
Posted 11 years ago by CopyrightX    [ Reply ]
sucko barfo indeed. amongst the most annoying crap ever played here :-(( puke!!!
Posted 11 years ago by tutakea    [ Reply ]
Ha Ha already rated Sucko Barfo. This is definitely irritating as hell. And catchy. Well played, Bill.
Posted 11 years ago by Segue    [ Reply ]
 d-don wrote:
7 → 4
 

4 → 1
Posted 11 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
7 → 4
Posted 12 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
Yep thought it was Cure...Love Cats. Glad it isn't. VERY GLAD. This is far better.
Posted 12 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
Thought it was the Lovecats from The Cure
Posted 12 years ago by Euskadita    [ Reply ]
 msymmes wrote:
Walking down Yonge Street.     The longest street in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street 
 
From Wikipedia...
 It was formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world
 Still, cool song. Where is K-Os now?

And it's not that flattering about Toronto. IIRC, K-Os wrote it about the local arts community dragging people down the way crabs in a bucket pull other crabs down as they attempt to crawl over each other to escape.
Posted 12 years ago by The_Enemy    [ Reply ]
doods: y'all need to chill on the Love Cats comments. You're aware that the Cure didn't invent that riff, right? You're aware that it's a jazz "walking bassline" riff, and it's been used in dozens of songs, right? Hit the Road, Jack; Hitchin A Ride; Stray Cat Strut - and that's just off the top of my head. And you're aware that Robert Smiths "solid gone" line is a reference to a Louis Prima line from I Wanna be Like you, from Jungle Book, right? So if the Cure can pay homage, so can K-Os.
Posted 12 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
As a few mentioned earlier this song builds a rod for it's own back by starting like that and not being Love Cats.
Posted 12 years ago by Sloggydog    [ Reply ]
This doesn't pass the sniff test. It's phony.
Posted 12 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
And that makes me wish I was back in Oregon, where the seafood is so fresh it almost crawls off the plate. Plus, this song just makes me wanna dance like a spaz. {#Bananasplit}
 
For years growing up I was highly allergic to sea food.  The idea of something I was allergic to chasing me around the restaurant is frightening.  

Also, the tree-hugging bleeding heart liberal in me says that cooking crab and lobster is cruel.  The idea of dropping a living thing in boiling water speaks only of torture, not of cuisine.  However, anything dipped in lemon butter sauce is going to be tasty and if I could eat it, I have no doubt that any moral objections would be quickly overcome by the happiness and security that comes with being on top of the food chain.

Of course, I come from an area that used to be full of dairy and beef farms where the motto has always been "carve off what you want, and ride the rest home!"  And people wonder why I moved. 
Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
Fingersnaps - and every time I hear this, I start craving seafood. And that makes me wish I was back in Oregon, where the seafood is so fresh it almost crawls off the plate. Plus, this song just makes me wanna dance like a spaz. {#Bananasplit}
 
I completely agree with everything you just said! {#Motor}
Posted 12 years ago by ferwoman    [ Reply ]
Great album; great series.  Love 'em.
Posted 12 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
Rihanna... Shut Up and Drive
Posted 12 years ago by mrtuba9    [ Reply ]
Walking down Yonge Street.     The longest street in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonge_Street


 
Posted 12 years ago by msymmes    [ Reply ]
 perryandcaro wrote:
Sounds just like The Cure's "Love cats" at the beginning...  
 
....I was going to say - I sure hope The Cure are listed in the liner notes - a blatant rip off.....  I can surely do without this song.

Posted 12 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
Very catchy song. I find it very entertaining. It rate it an 8, which appears to be a bit higher than average. Not every song has to be deep and meaningful..






Posted 12 years ago by Nerubo    [ Reply ]

Putumayo is a department in Colombia along the northern Ecuador border.  It means gushing water in Quechua.  The area has been known for coca leaf growing, for arms trafficking and for the pasta trade.  It continues to host violent and deadly confrontations between the Colombian security forces and the neo-marxist thugs known as FARC.

 

 

 

 


Posted 12 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
First I thought it was Mambo #5...
Then I thought it was 10:15 Saturday Night...
Posted 12 years ago by ArbiterOfGoodTaste    [ Reply ]
 jimtyrrell wrote:
Thanks RP, this song is really Hip! Keep up the diverse sounds.
 
It's ahead by a century.
Posted 12 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
How many crabs are there in Toronto?  Unless, of course, he is walking down another Yonge St.?
Posted 13 years ago by ch83575    [ Reply ]
Sounds just like The Cure's "Love cats" at the beginning...  
Posted 13 years ago by perryandcaro    [ Reply ]
...lovecats...
Posted 13 years ago by LongGoneDaddy    [ Reply ]
"crap in the buckit" hehehehe
Posted 13 years ago by cafortier    [ Reply ]
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for songs about crabs but...First time I heard this I kinda liked it.  Second time not so much. Karma might be wrong today though.
Posted 13 years ago by run4more    [ Reply ]
Oh yeah, crabbing off of the north Oregon coast - trying to get the crabs out of the crabpot and into the bucket without losing any of your important parts. . . 

. . . and of course drawn butter. . . 
 
Posted 13 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
 Axelito wrote:
Not really RP like but I like it, groovy.. :p
 
"Not really RP like"  You're kidding, right?  This is exactly what RP is all about.  As a matter of fact I think anything can be on RP and it would be "RP like".   Just my opinion.
Posted 13 years ago by AvoidingWork    [ Reply ]
Fingersnaps - and every time I hear this, I start craving seafood. And that makes me wish I was back in Oregon, where the seafood is so fresh it almost crawls off the plate. Plus, this song just makes me wanna dance like a spaz. {#Bananasplit}
Posted 13 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
I think this could grow on me. Very nice!
Posted 13 years ago by Ntropy    [ Reply ]
alriiight!
Posted 13 years ago by goodgroove    [ Reply ]
 jimtyrrell wrote:
Thanks RP, this song is really Hip! Keep up the diverse sounds.
 
yeah

Posted 13 years ago by goodgroove    [ Reply ]
Thanks RP, this song is really Hip! Keep up the diverse sounds.
Posted 13 years ago by jimtyrrell    [ Reply ]
NO...thanks anyway
Posted 13 years ago by tulfan    [ Reply ]
Not really RP like but I like it, groovy.. :p
Posted 13 years ago by Axelito    [ Reply ]
 robco1 wrote:
That remind me: need to pick up some Old Bay at the store...
 
{#Lol}
Posted 13 years ago by SinisterDexter    [ Reply ]
Bumped to 8. Dunno - something about this beat and the SNZ-like vibe... (Um, I have a song called "Crablouse," but I doubt it would work in a set with "Crab" as the subject...) {#Lol}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
That remind me: need to pick up some Old Bay at the store...
Posted 14 years ago by robco1    [ Reply ]
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Posted 14 years ago by soulcollision    [ Reply ]
 jkhandy wrote:
I'm dancing in the kitchen....thanks RP!   {#Dancingbanana}
 
Well, dancing right with you, jkhandy - I'm doing the bohemian finger-shap and wishing I was dressed in black to complete the beatnik look. I like this song the more I hear it! {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
My 9 year old thought this song said, "She got to crap in the bucket."{#Lol}
Posted 14 years ago by Bocephus    [ Reply ]
Oh, that beat. Makes me crave steamed mussels in white wine and garlic. And the ocean.
Posted 14 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
 FariaFride wrote:
This song reminds me of another of The Cure  {#Whistle}
 

"Love Cats" ?
Posted 14 years ago by DeemerDave    [ Reply ]
This song reminds me of another of The Cure  {#Whistle}
Posted 14 years ago by FariaFride    [ Reply ]
Very nice...must be the 5th song off this album that RP has found a place for.....
Posted 14 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
I'm dancing in the kitchen....thanks RP!   {#Dancingbanana}
Posted 14 years ago by jkhandy    [ Reply ]
stupid repetitive dreck. ack
Posted 14 years ago by Segue    [ Reply ]

how on earth did I give this a 3 the last time.

 

7.

 

Weird.


Posted 14 years ago by le_colonel    [ Reply ]
Groovy!{#Bananajumprope}
Posted 14 years ago by grungepuppy    [ Reply ]
 sirdroseph wrote:


I like this song, but it ain't Hip-Hop.{#No}
 
yeeeeeah, maybe - but there is hip-hop on the cd. And rock, and funk, and... K-Os covers a lot of ground.

Posted 14 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
Tonight on a very special episode of The Deadliest Catch......

Posted 14 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
{#Drummer}{#Bananapiano}{#Yell}
Posted 14 years ago by stephw    [ Reply ]
 apd wrote:
If you like this, and it's the only K_Os you know, you won't regret diggin deeper. And when people tell me they don't like hip-hop, I point them here.
 

I like this song, but it ain't Hip-Hop.{#No}
Posted 14 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
Love it Love it Love it
when it comes on my MP3 player while I"m walking I totally change the way I walk and I feel like Busta Rhymes in one of his 90s videos ;)
Posted 14 years ago by jenakle    [ Reply ]
LOL at all the Cure comments. But I do enjoy it nonetheless. :)
Posted 14 years ago by derekd    [ Reply ]
Theeee lovecats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 14 years ago by Felix_The_Cat    [ Reply ]
Bah, I wanted The Cure.
Posted 14 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
 lophrequa wrote:

and Tribe Called Quest ... sadly, none here

wait - did he just say "Tragically Hip" ??  

yes, yes he did
 
"ahead by a century"!

Posted 15 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
 apd wrote:
If you like this, and it's the only K_Os you know, you won't regret diggin deeper. And when people tell me they don't like hip-hop, I point them here.
 
and Tribe Called Quest ... sadly, none here

wait - did he just say "Tragically Hip" ??  

<lyrics check> yes, yes he did
Posted 15 years ago by lophrequa    [ Reply ]

Somehow in the intro I started singing "Hit the road, jack...."

Posted 15 years ago by DaMoGan    [ Reply ]
If you like this, and it's the only K_Os you know, you won't regret diggin deeper. And when people tell me they don't like hip-hop, I point them here.
Posted 15 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
put your crap in the bucket.  {#Lol}
Posted 15 years ago by cafortier    [ Reply ]
Good walkup riff if you're a ballplayer.


Posted 15 years ago by fergie348    [ Reply ]
The Cure "Love Cats" detected :)
Posted 15 years ago by Netto    [ Reply ]
 kingfish2004 wrote:
Crab boil BABY!!!!!
Now I am hungery!!!!
 

Boil Shrimp- STEAM crabs!
Posted 15 years ago by jadedragon    [ Reply ]
 kingfish2004 wrote:
Now I am hungery!!!!
 
Good thing you aren't Hungary.

Posted 15 years ago by RadioDoc    [ Reply ]
 alaken wrote:
I also totally thought of "Love Cats" when I heard the beginning of this. The bass lines are similar, but different. The bass tone is nearly identical. (I actually think Love Cats has a catchier bassline.)
 
Me too! I was really surprised when this wasn't Lovecats. & I agree, Lovecats does have a catchier beat. But this is way groovy too!

Posted 15 years ago by akmegan    [ Reply ]
I suggest Rid®.
Posted 15 years ago by aelfheld    [ Reply ]
This was originally on Joyful Rebellion. Check out B-Boy Stance; you won't be able to keep your butt in your seat.
Posted 15 years ago by cayenne    [ Reply ]
Geez, anyone can put a record / CD out there nowadays.  Talent? Not necessary!
Posted 15 years ago by jjbix    [ Reply ]
 peter_james_bond wrote:
{#Bananasplit}{#Bananasplit}{#Bounce}{#Bounce}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Roflol}{#Roflol}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}

 

Correctly sums this great song up!
Posted 15 years ago by kingfish2004    [ Reply ]
Crab boil BABY!!!!!
Now I am hungery!!!!
Posted 15 years ago by kingfish2004    [ Reply ]
crab in the bucket
Posted 15 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
WOW!  K-OS on RP!!  I haven't heard him playered on here before.  The whole K-OS album this track is on is incredible :) Now if only RP played some Jurassic 5 or Blackalicious we'd really be into the funky counscious hip hop!

Posted 15 years ago by dynamaniak    [ Reply ]
Yes ! more rap ! true eclecticism !

everyone here look up immortal technique. I don't care if you've never listened to anything except john fogerty.

Do it now.

Have a nice eternity.
Posted 15 years ago by Tailypoe    [ Reply ]
Was that Q-Tip there towards the end?  Sounded a bit like him, though maybe not quite as high.  I like the track alot though. 
Posted 15 years ago by greyfin10    [ Reply ]
{#Bananasplit}{#Bananasplit}{#Bounce}{#Bounce}{#Dancingbanana}{#Dancingbanana}{#Roflol}{#Roflol}{#Dancingbanana_2}{#Dancingbanana_2}

Posted 15 years ago by peter_james_bond    [ Reply ]
I also totally thought of "Love Cats" when I heard the beginning of this. The bass lines are similar, but different. The bass tone is nearly identical. (I actually think Love Cats has a catchier bassline.)
Posted 15 years ago by alaken    [ Reply ]
another Canadian eh...
Posted 16 years ago by abby_normal    [ Reply ]
..is that in the bass line  The Cure's  "Love Cats"?    it is pretty similar I bet.
Posted 16 years ago by marcucho    [ Reply ]
More handclaps! {#Clap}
Posted 16 years ago by kaybee    [ Reply ]
I'm from Maryland, and the title of this song just gave me a powerful craving for a bucket of steamed crabs . . . "let's go down the ocean fer a crab feast, hon!"

Posted 16 years ago by robco1    [ Reply ]
okelle wrote:
I love k-os. They're the best hip-hop to come out since Tribe.
Couldn't agree more, except that k-os should be referred to as 'him' rather than 'they'.
Posted 16 years ago by adroc    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by physastro2050    [ Reply ]
okelle wrote:
I love k-os. They're the best hip-hop to come out since Tribe.
Posted 16 years ago by K_Love    [ Reply ]
I love k-os. They're the best hip-hop to come out since Tribe.
Posted 16 years ago by okelle    [ Reply ]
Very cool
Posted 16 years ago by matt!    [ Reply ]
westslope wrote:
Party music. Not quite what I expect to find on RP....
party music is RIGHT OUT! no fun here, move along! honestly - WTF?
Posted 16 years ago by lophrequa    [ Reply ]
Imkirok wrote:
carpwall wrote:
LOVE CATS!
Yep!
+1!
Posted 16 years ago by Frater_Kork    [ Reply ]
Funky! Brings me back to the nineties -- things like Arrested Development, Diggable Planets, etc. I really like that jazz/hip-hop sound.
Posted 16 years ago by jone_ston    [ Reply ]
Bloody hell, this song is annoying.
Posted 16 years ago by Allenthar    [ Reply ]
Posted 16 years ago by Excelsior    [ Reply ]
infectious
Posted 16 years ago by petercroob    [ Reply ]
cafortier wrote:
So - forgetting about the music...when i saw this song name, i couldnt' help but laugh - thinking it was crap bucket!
i am trying to forget about the music. it is crap in the bucket.
Posted 16 years ago by rickhoran    [ Reply ]
So - forgetting about the music...when i saw this song name, i couldnt' help but laugh - thinking it was crap bucket!
Posted 16 years ago by cafortier    [ Reply ]
Sweet tune. 8.
Posted 17 years ago by Waybo    [ Reply ]
I bought this album after hearing a few songs on RP, The Alice Russell and Cat Empire ones I think. This song was one of my favorites. Everyone I have played it for likes it. I normally don't like these Putumayo types of Albums, but I got some good stuff from this one and found some good new funky artists that I would not normally listen to.
Posted 17 years ago by cvandoren    [ Reply ]
This reminds me of my 3 year old on the beach this summer, when she bent down to look at a sand crab and said, "Hi there, little buddy!" It was a complete opposite from the 9 yr-old who ran screaming when the crab ran at her. hee hee...
Posted 17 years ago by 2Hawks    [ Reply ]
Is this sort of Prince-ish or is it just me?
Posted 17 years ago by pmnixa    [ Reply ]
carpwall wrote:
LOVE CATS!
Yep!
Posted 17 years ago by Imkirok    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Jurassic Five.
Posted 17 years ago by theGOOT    [ Reply ]
mindless wrote:
We move like cagey tigers Oh, we couldn't get closer than this I wonder if the Cure stole it from someone else first?
Ray Charles, "Hit the Road, Jack". 1961, I think.
Posted 17 years ago by apd    [ Reply ]
We move like cagey tigers Oh, we couldn't get closer than this I wonder if the Cure stole it from someone else first?
Posted 17 years ago by mindless    [ Reply ]
AphidA wrote:
What is this crap? (If it's from Putumayo, it must be good I suppose)
Party music. Not quite what I expect to find on RP....
Posted 17 years ago by westslope    [ Reply ]
What is this crap? (If it's from Putumayo, it must be good I suppose)
Posted 17 years ago by AphidA    [ Reply ]
Land_Shark wrote:
Excuse me?
LOL-Sorry, I didn't mean you Land_shark. I don't mind so much that he "borrowed" the name 3 years after Rootboy Slim died, I just mind that he didn't acknowledge it or give any props or respect. He just saw something cool lying around and stuck it in his pocket when he thought nobody was looking. (click here)
Posted 17 years ago by bokey    [ Reply ]
bokey wrote:
Name stealing, grave robbing POS
Excuse me?
Posted 17 years ago by Land_Shark    [ Reply ]
Infectous, makes me want to slap that bass line and get the groove on. Ooh Ya
Posted 17 years ago by YA_MAN    [ Reply ]
Land_Shark wrote:
Sounds alot like Fatboy Slim. In spite of that, I like this groove.
Name stealing, grave robbing POS
Posted 17 years ago by bokey    [ Reply ]
Putting on my Groove thing- Love it
Posted 17 years ago by YA_MAN    [ Reply ]
Sounds alot like Fatboy Slim. In spite of that, I like this groove.
Posted 17 years ago by Land_Shark    [ Reply ]
yep, The crabs are in the bucket and the water is just about ready to boil. The drinks are already cold.
Posted 17 years ago by Wilmshurst    [ Reply ]
Amazing what one guy with a suite of computers can end up with. Crap in the Bucker Crabs in the bucket hats in the fuckit knats in the tucket stacksup and sukit I guess you have to be there ...
Posted 17 years ago by Misterfixit    [ Reply ]
Posted 17 years ago by Wilmshurst    [ Reply ]
Oh yeah--I'm dancing now.
Posted 17 years ago by artmarcia    [ Reply ]