Hoodie Ninja

If I ran a game store I would play the song Hoodie Ninja by mc chris.

You might have heard this song in a Honda commercial or on America's Funniest Home Videos. mc chris is a founder of nerdcore rap and the most successful artist of the genre to date, with this song breaking into mainstream. Hoodie Ninja follows a mischievous juvenile dressed in a black hoodie and his black church pants as he goes on two capers: peeping into a girl's window and pranking his gym teacher. The song moves along so quickly that you're forgiven if you miss the story and only hear the words that jump into your ear, like "ninja", "Barnum Bailey", "ninja", "Banksy", "ninja", and "Mount Doom". Listening to it, it's obvious why it met mainstream success. I think it should meet game store success too. I'd play it.

Hoodie Ninja was released on mc chris's 2008 album, mc chris is dead.

Hoodie Ninja on Google Play

Pirates vs Ninjas

If I ran a game store I would play the song Pirates vs Ninjas by Raptors Away!.

Pirates vs Ninjas is a guitar-driven, hoarse-throated, crossover thrash tune. Musically it's a little heavy for a game store, but the subject matter makes the song a must-play. The song is about the obvious: a fantasy battle to the death between pirates and ninjas.

It's an established fact that if pirates and ninjas fought that the pirates would win, duh. Yet when Raptors Away! recorded Pirates vs Ninjas they recorded the song with two endings – one describing pirate victory and one describing ninja victory. When the band performed the song live they would poll the audience who would win and play the ending to match. Ideally, both versions of the song will be on my game store's playlist and the playlist will be set to shuffle.

Raptors Away! was a garage band that never really got anywhere. They peaked by getting on the same line-up as The Great Lukeski, Warp 11, and The Phenomenauts at Gen Con So Cal 2004 gaming convention (all these bands will be covered by X Marks the Beat). Dr. Demento was in the audience that night (so was I – the audience voted for pirates) and Raptors Away! was interviewed by Attack of the Show. The band produced a five-song CD for sale at the convention and in 2005 they produced a second CD titled There's One in Every Crowd. They eventually combined both CDs onto a single album titled Rise of the Phoenix. Pirates vs Ninjas was originally titled PvN and was released on There's One in Every Crowd. The name was changed to avoid confusion with PvA (Predators vs Aliens).

Pirates vs Ninjas (pirate victory) on CDBaby

Pirates vs Ninjas (ninja victory) on CDBaby