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"Crazy Story" is a song by American rapper King Von, released on December 6, 2018, as his debut single through Only the Family and Empire Distribution.[1] The song is one of Von's most popular songs and it is considered his breakout hit.[2] It was followed by two sequels: "Crazy Story 2.0" and "Crazy Story, Pt. 3". All three singles appear on Von's mixtape Grandson, Vol. 1 (2019), while "Crazy Story" was included on Only The Family mixtape Only The Family Involved Vol. 2.[3]
"Crazy Story" currently has more than 104 million views on Von's official YouTube channel, as well as over 74 million on WorldStarHipHop's YouTube channel as of February 2023. The song peaked at number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100[4] and was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America on February 15, 2023 for selling more than 3 million certified units since its release.[5][6]
Bennett (Von's real surname) declared that the song lyrics draw on urban novels and on his own experiences.[9] It finds King Von rapping and detailing about his struggle in growing up in Chicago, all this over a drill-style instrumental that was produced by Mac Fly.[10]The story tells an eye-opening, plot-twisting tale of a robbery gone wrong, using his expert storytelling ability, Bennett mimics a conversational patter, packing his story with intimate and vivid details, but also building in digressions, all this using an adaptable flow and an intricate wordplay.[3][10][11][12][13]Bennett made several quotes on the song, among all he mentioned Snoop from The Wire television series, and he later revealed in an interview for Genius that he used to watch the series and that he liked the aforementioned character.[8][10]
After the viral success, that perpetuated until the spring of 2020, "Crazy Story" had fans all over quoting the most famous catchphrase contained in the song's lyrics, "From 64th and 65th, we not from 63rd."[7]
Jeotgal is a fermented, by way of salting, seafood. You know how the story goes. Seafood in the olden days without refrigeration would rot in a day or two, so our ancestors figured out a way to preserve them by heavily salting and letting them \u201Cage,\u201D which by definition is fermentation\u2014letting food go through chemical reaction to develop flavor in a natural way.
This, of course, is not unique to Korea or Asia. As I understand it, Scandinavian peoples preserved their fish in salt as well; there\u2019s the famous Vietnamese fish sauce called nuoc mam; and what do you think those canned anchovies and sardines are? They\u2019re basically European jeotgal.
And get this. So is ketchup. Did you know that the name \u201Cketchup\u201D is actually derived from a Chinese word that means \u201Cbrine of fermented fish\u201D? Google \u201Corigin of ketchup\u201D and see what comes up. You\u2019ll be surprised.
A few are shown here, and I\u2019ll pick out one to illustrate a point. Let\u2019s take the top middle one. It says \u201C\uC624\uC9D5\uC5B4\uC813.\u201D Do you recognize those first three characters in Korean?
Yes, it\u2019s \u201Csquid.\u201D How do you make a squid jeotgal, or any jeotgal for that matter? Clean it, take out the skin and/or any other debris, slice it into thin strips, or chop it up finely (depending on your preference), salt it generously, and store/age it in a Korean earthenware called \uD56D\uC544\uB9AC (hang-ari) for a few days or up to over a year, depending on the ingredient. You cannot make kimchi without a certain type of jeotgal. The more types you have, the deeper the flavor of kimchi.
These are then removed in small batches, and further seasoned with Korean chili flakes/powder (\uACE0\uCD94\uAC00\uB8E8, go-choo-ga-roo), garlic, and other flavors. They can get spicy and very pungent. For example, there is a jeotgal (not pictured above) made with the innards of beltfish (\uAC08\uCE58, aka hairtail, cutlass fish) and it has a very unique odor/smell to it (= it stinks), not all that dissimilar from a bad smelling cheese like Stilton or Limburger.
But Korean barbecue restaurants in Jejudo serve it as a dipping sauce for pork belly (\uC0BC\uACB9\uC0B4), and once you get used to it, there\u2019s no turning back\u2014it\u2019s very addictive. So, in short, jeotgals are fermented seafood that\u2019s been chopped up, salted, and seasoned. They\u2019re definitely an acquired taste, even for many Koreans, but very common banchan in a Korean meal.
A factoid about Korean history\u2014the official titles of Josun Dynasty Kings end in either -jong (\uC885, \u5B97) or -jo (\uC870, \u7956). The suffix simply denotes \u201CKing\u201D and there is no clear difference between the two, although some archaic Chinese text has a very ambiguous description of what that difference is. Modern Korean historians agree that there is essentially no distinction.
Anyway\u2026 of the 27 Kings, there are 2 who do NOT have their moniker end in jong or jo. They end in \uAD70, (\u541B, guhn) meaning \u201Cprince.\u201D They\u2019re named as such because they didn\u2019t deserve to be called a King for being a murderous tyrant and psychologically unstable. One of two is of course Yeon-san, for whom alone I can write 20 different postings about his Caligula-esque atrocities that he committed during his 12-year reign. But I\u2019ll concentrate on one episode that\u2019s pertinent to today\u2019s topic.
You see, Yeon-san was the oldest son of Sung-jong (\uC131\uC885, \u6210\u5B97) who is one of the most respected Kings of Josun Dynasty in terms of achievements and his \u201Ckingly\u201D disposition. But Yeon-san\u2019s biological mother, Queen Yoon (no given name recorded), was stripped of her title, divorced, expelled from the Palace, and eventually sentenced to death for conduct unbecoming of a Queen (she did some shitty things\u2014like trying to frame other people, attempting to poison her rivals (caught red-handed), brazenly doing things on the Palace grounds that the Josun law expressly prohibited). She was killed when Yeon-san was 6 years old.
Yeon-san found out about what had happened to his mother (people were apparently keeping quiet about it for years), he went on a rampage, killing people who were involved with the incident. By this time, however, Yeon-san was already on his batshit crazy behavior for a couple of years. His mother Queen Yoon\u2019s rivals, as they were, were his father\u2019s two concubines who won favors from King Sung-jong during his reign. And Yeon-san, thinking that it was those two concubines, Um and Jeong, who were the direct cause of his mother\u2019s death, started torturing them. Then, Yeon-san summoned Um and Jeong\u2019s sons\u2014remember, they\u2019re Yeon-san\u2019s half-brothers\u2014and ordered them to club the two \u201Ccriminals.\u201D
This torturing session was held under the darkness, and they couldn\u2019t see who the \u201Ccriminals\u201D were, so one of them obliged to the King\u2019s command and ended up beating his own mother, and the other, knowing who the tied person was, couldn\u2019t obviously bring himself to do it. The two women, Yeon-san\u2019s father\u2019s women, were beaten to death that night, their corpses chopped up and made into a jeotgal.
Every city has its own fast food urban legend. All of Toronto still mourns the now-closed Parkdale McDonald's, a location so famously weird that the guy who brought in a full desktop computer to watch porn was actually considered one of the better customers. In Long Beach, they swear by Sweet Dixie Kitchen, which was notoriously exposed for buying Popeye's fried chicken, smuggling it in the back door, and reselling it at a slightly higher price. And nobody in Chamblee, Georgia can order Domino's without remembering the time a deranged gunman named Kenneth Noid took two employees hostage, believing that the chain's nationwide "Avoid the Noid" advertising campaign was aimed at him specifically.
But there's a new champion on the scene. A story so hilariously insane that you simply would not believe it, unless we added that it took place in Pittsburgh. Everything is true in Pittsburgh, the only town where children's stories about a guy with no face wandering around at night turned out to literally be a guy with no face who enjoyed late-night walks (his name was Raymond and he was reportedly a lovely man). This particular tale was sinking into the mists of local folklore until it was highlighted by Twitter user ohip13, who has something of a specialty in bizarre Pittsburgh legends. We're talking, of course, about the South Side Fake Burger King.
The first thing to note is that this particular Burger King was never exactly going to win awards. It's drive-thru facility can only be described as a terrifying murder tunnel, while online reviews include phrases like "some shady guy charged me a dollar to use the bathroom," "a homeless guy stole another homeless guy's shoes" and "If you've ever said to yourself 'Hey I want to eat lunch in a dirty bus station...this place is for you!'" There was a McDonald's a couple miles away that was selling Happy Meal toys stuffed full of heroin and it still got better reviews. But around the start of 2014, things went even further downhill, to the point that people started asking "Is this even a real Burger King at all?"
The epic saga began when customers noticed that their food didn't seem to taste like Burger King. That's usually a compliment, but if you specifically choose to go to Burger King, it's because you want that special experience of having your tastebuds beaten with a used sock full of nickels. The situation deteriorated as food began to be served in plain brown paper bags, without the famous BK logo. Fries came in dixie cups, drinks were in plain styrofoam cups, the burgers were wrapped in tin foil or sandwich paper. Some expert soda connoisseurs claimed that the Coke machine appeared to be dispensing Pepsi. Rumors spread that employees had been sighted loading up on burger buns in a nearby Giant Eagle supermarket.
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