Here’s the gist of a complicated story: Roller Rapper, aka Robby Love, has a hot music video, and he’s also going to roller-skate down Route 66 this spring.
According to a news release, “The Roller Rapper” video hit No. 1 in the rock/pop category on MTV’s iFilms, beating out Green Day, Jessica Simpson, Linkin Park and others. Robby says he’s “on a mission to have fun making great music that is free of sex, drugs and violence.” However, Robby’s vow apparently doesn’t preclude hotties in his video. (Not that I’m complaining.) You can view the video here (broadband connection is highly recommended).
Robby isn’t signed to any music label. But, to his credit, he boasts high-profile collaborators. KC and Rick Finch, of KC and the Sunshine Band, are his managers. Finch also is the producer of “Roller Rapper,” and it sounds like it — the catchy hooks and horns sound like something from KC’s heyday in the 1970s.
And here’s the Route 66 connection:
He is preparing to be the first person to skate the entire length of the famous Route 66 that will benefit non-profit charities in the spring of 2006. … The “Love Girls” perform in all of the Roller Rapper’s videos and they will embark upon the Route 66 tour. They are a stunningly beautiful group of entertainers who add elegance and glamour to the shows.
He even has a Web site devoted to his Route 66 tour here. His itinerary, shown here, is error-filled (there is no Tucumcari in Texas, but there’s one in New Mexico) and a bit bizarre (a stop in the sparsely populated Bushyhead, Oklahoma, for instance). I never knew a music tour needed a skating trainer and a stunt coordinator, either.
Robby Love first popped up on the Route 66 e-group some months ago, asking for advice in his roller-skate quest down the Mother Road. At the time, I thought he sounded like a lovable goofball whose odds of having a music career were slim and whose odds of skating Route 66 were slimmer.
Now it looks like Robby’s going to pull this whole thing off. Hey, if his crazy Mother Road tour helps charities, more power to him. Maybe I’ll invite him and his posse to perform for the good ol’ boys at the It’ll Do tavern in the working-class neighborhood of Red Fork in Tulsa. đ
nice, cozy place you got here :)..