Plastic Wrappers Say No To Single Use Plastic
Inspired by PHIST 2019 (Phuket Hotels for Islands Sustaining Tourism) and the quest to reduce landfill and ocean pollution from plastics, The Plastic Wrappers, a quartet of multi-generational rappers, give a twist of sustainability to the 1979 classic Rappers Delight.
Music: Rappers Delight is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang which included sampling of Nile Rogers’ Chic Good Times.
Sustainability lyrics: David Barrett
Rappers: Marissa Jablonski, Plastics Activist
Bill Barnett, C9 Hotelworks
Charles The French, Comedy Magician
David Barrett, Business Events Strategist
Wardrobe: T-shirts courtesy of Phuket Hotels Association
Recorded at: Dynamic Recording Studio, Thonglor, Bangkok
Cause: Lyrics rewritten to encourage reduction of single use plastic heading to landfill and oceans
Executive Producer: David Barrett
The classic Hip Hop hit “Rappers Delight by Sugarhill Gang” gets the Sound of Sustainability #SOS treatment with lyrics rewritten, the music reworked and the project responding to the need for us to reduce single-use plastic and switch to sustainable choices.
As an homage to the original and lending their voices to raise awareness of single-use plastics are; Marissa Jablonski, live and direct from Washington DC; Bill Barnett, Hip Hop Hero of C9 Hotelworks; millennial comedy magician, Charles The French; and old skool David Barrett.
This recording is for light hearted inspiration on social media channels and not for commercial broadcast.
