The Candyman isn’t Wiggida Wack

The other night I had a dream I was driving and suddenly the Candyman was in my passenger seat. Now there was a lack of bees, so it could have been the actor and not the character, but in the dream I was thinking that it was the Candyman, which definitely makes the next part all the more odd. As an aside, the Candyman needs days off and to be away from the bees every once in a while. Have you ever tried to herd bees? The man obviously has patience and maybe he needs a breather and honestly, so do the bees. So, I’m driving down an alleyway and there were garbage trucks everywhere blocking us and slowing us down. To pass the time we started singing Jump by Kris Kross and let me tell you, we nailed it. Then we discussed the merits of some of them trying to rhyme, but they can’t rhyme like this, which indeed is wiggida wiggida wiggida wack.

Would that make the Candyman the Daddy Mac and his bees tiny Mac Daddies, or the other way around?

Since the dream, I have looked up the lyrics because it’s been years since listening to the song and yes, some things were a little mixed and my apologies to both Kris & Kross. However, I would argue that by being the miggity miggity miggity miggity Mac Daddy and being able to ”rhyme like this” it makes those who have tried, and inevitably failed, wiggida wiggida wiggida wack. What Candyman and I discussed is that it’s awesome that people are giving it a go, even though they’re going to walk away being wiggida wiggida wiggida wack, because they aren’t the Mac Daddy.

This made me think about what would make me wiggida wiggida wiggida wack. It’s like so many things, but it should be something I’m into and maybe something I ”sing” along to in the car. That would be Clipping. Trying to rhyme along with Daveed Diggs is impossible and often in my car, I am wiggida wiggida wiggida wack. However, I still give it a try because 1) Clipping puts out great music and 2) I’m trying to give my Long Covid lungs a workout and this is a way I don’t have to worry about being thrown into an asthma attack. Basically Clipping, (Daveed Diggs, Jonathan Snipes, and William Hutson) are my personal trainers and Daveed Diggs is who I see on lung day.