How the WORST RAPPER EVER Created the BEST ROCK Song of his Time! | Professor of Rock
4,259Coming up, the story of an unlucky artist that bootstrapped from coast to coast trying to get his big break. “Ironically, his breakthrough hit came from a spontaneous outburst that he shouted because he was so embarrassed by his voice so he DISSED on himself as a joke and the diss became a Mantra for a generation. The song transformed the artist from a struggling wanderer into a sensation with its self-deprecating lyrics and wild, erratic energy. We’re gonna kill the headlights and put it in neutral… NEXT on Professor of Rock
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I’d like to start this episode by telling you a story…In the time of chimpanzees… I was a monkey Butane in my veins, and I'm out to cut the junkie With the plastic eyeballs…spray-paint the vegetables Dog food stalls with… the beefcake pantyhose Wait…..what did I just say??? Of course I can’t take credit for that bizarre passage. Those words were written as song lyrics by Beck David Hansen, the artist simply known as “BECK” in his breakout hit “Loser:” How he came up with this classic song is insane…
“Loser’ was the culmination of years of improv performances, and D.I.Y. recordings by Beck. The rocky journey that led him to the day he collaborated with Carl Stephenson to record “Loser” included years of moving baaack… and forth… across the country. Along the way, he was often homeless, ignored, and broke- working jobs that paid him less than minimum wage.
Feeling like "a total outcast", Beck dropped out of school after junior high. He later said that although he felt school was important, he felt unsafe there. When he applied to the new performing arts high school in downtown LA, he was denied. His brother took him to post-Beat jazz places in Echo Park and Silver Lake. He hung out at at LA City College perusing records, books, and old sheet music in the college's library. He also had a natural street-wise ingenuity that helped him get into places he wasn’t authorized to be, such as using a Fake ID to sit in on classes at LA City College, and he also befriended a literature instructor and his poet wife, under false pretenses.
He worked a string of menial jobs, including loading distributor trucks and operating a leaf blower. In ’89, with just $8 bucks and a beat up guitar, Beck embarked on a journey to New York City. Despite his efforts to secure a job and some kind of housing, he struggled to find success. However, his fortunes changed when he discovered Manhattan's Lower East Side and stumbled upon the tail end of the East Village's anti-folk scene's first wave. Immersing himself in this vibrant community, Beck became part of a group of acoustic musicians led by Roger Manning, which included