Pro Football Talk found a video last night including a cameo from Justin Fargas that made Tom Cable’s first week on the job a little more interesting.
The video is a tedious affair shown on a website called worldstarhiphop.com. The name of the website is the first misleading thing about this whole deal. I’ve heard of Yukmouth, the star of a video revolving around a weed smoking contest known as the Smoke-A-Thon, but I can’t name one of his songs. Hardly a world star of hip hop, Yukmouth’s actually better known for having a ridiculous name and doing cameos on more well-known Bay Area rappers like Mister Fab and the late Mac Dre. I’ve never seen the guy before this morning while watching the aforementioned video, and from his performance I doubt he’ll be getting a VH-1 reality show anytime soon.
Also misleading: the video’s title promotes a smoking contest and lists Snoop Dogg, B-Legit and Devin the Dude. In this installment (Part II), there is no smoking contest. Also, Yukmouth rambles about these other (more famous) rappers, but in the video they’re nowhere to be found. Guess we’ll all have to check out Part III, hopefully featuring Darren McFadden.
Anyway, most of the video features Yukmouth buying turkey bags full of weed at a cannibis club and smoking foot-long blunts. Pretty standard stuff except for about a minute and a half in, when Fargas is shown on the balcony of what appears to be his own house. Yukmouth tries to help the oft-injured Raider tailback’s chances of staying out trouble by mentioning how Fargas, the son of the man who played Huggy Bear on “Starsky and Hutch,” doesn’t smoke marijuana himself. To be exact, Yukmouth says, “My n—- don’t get down.”
Fargas doesn’t seem too phased by the cameras in his face during a smoked-out sausage fest at his own mansion, but he makes sure to say these kinds of activities only occur when Yukmouth is present, saying, “We got the Yuk rules at the crib.” And here I thought the “Yuck Rules” were something I heard explained by a hooker five years ago on “Taxicab Confessions.”
This is all amusing, and has been picked up by The San Francisco Chronicle and KNBR, which has given us the auditory gift this afternoon of hearing a mid-50’s Ray Woodson say the name “Yukmouth” during a sports update. It’s sort of like if you heard Dan Rather say “Biggie Smalls.”
My first instinct would be to ignore this story, since all we know is Fargas allowed pot to be smoked at his house. He isn’t selling drugs (not surprising since most NFL players — like Travis Henry and Nate Newton, for instance — wait until they’re retired before they start slangin’ for real) or even near any second-hand smoke in the video, so who cares? It’s like the Michael Phelps story divided by 100, right?
Um, not so fast. As much as the IOC needs Michael Phelps and did everything short of send him a case of Crunch ‘N’ Munch after he apologized for his recent bong photo, the NFL needs Justin Fargas about as much JaMarcus Russell needs an unlimited supply of Angry Whoppers. So even though Al Davis doesn’t know the Internet exists, Fargas might get into a little trouble for this minor role in an otherwise forgettable eight-minute weed video according to Pro Football Talk:
Though Fargas isn’t shown smoking any marijuana, his presence in the video could be enough to get the NFL to begin sniffing around. Under the league’s substance abuse policy, a player can be put into Stage One of the program if the Medical Director concludes that the player has engaged in conduct that “exhibits physical, behavioral, or psychological signs or symptoms of misuse or abuse of substances of abuse.â€
I’m just excited to see what McFadden will do during the offseason to one-up Fargas, leaving the Raiders with Michael Bush as their last option after both are suspended. Oh well, Bush is their best running back anyway. As long as he stays out of trouble, McFadden and Fargas can get caught hitting the crack pipe in some basement with Amy Winehouse and Cable and the Raiders will still be fine.
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Yukmouth is a boss
dont talk shit
I beg to differ.
Slim Thug is da boss.
If you dont know who yukmouth is honestly….you should probably not be calling yourself the bay area sports guy. haha…If you had any hint of investigatory abilties-or thizzvestigations as i call them- then youd know who yukmouth the boss is. The late mac dre? cmon man…not a bay area sports guy for me
…and slim thug? where are you from?
sorry to invade the blog, but fyi yukmouth, mac dre, devin the dude, B’Legit, etc all came up in the music industry together…same studios…same friends…same hoods. and this contest does exist…and unfortunately yuk is a millionaire from rap and pretty damn famous.
50 cent had beef with him
the game had beef with him
he is on the level of basically all the blowout mainstream artists which says a lot.
I’d heard of Yukmouth back when I wrote this post a few months ago, but since then I’ve checked his music out more and I gotta say he’s cool.
I was writing this more from the perspective of a sports fan who thought it was funny everyone got all excited about Fargas being on the video (where he wasn’t even smoking), and hearing old white guys say “Yukmouth.”
I’m grew up in Humboldt, but I’ve been in the Bay for over 14 years now. Where I’m from people like music from all over the country, not just one area. I’ve been listening to Bay rappers like Thizzelle, the Click, Mac Mall, Short, JT, Ray Luv, etc. for years, along with stuff like Heiro and Latyrx, but I’m also into shit like Clipse, Wu-Tang, Kurupt and Cool Kids too. Call me crazy, but I like a little bit of everything as long as it doesn’t suck.
So no disrespect at all to Yukmouth intended, it was just a funny Oakland Raiders story. That’s cool with me that he’s a millionaire, maybe he can lend me a little cash!
And I never doubted for a second that this contest existed. Where I’m from those kind of contests are what we call “Saturday.”
yeah… we clearly have a problem here… The author if this article obviously knows nothing at all about music. If he did, then it would be an interesting insight inot the personal life of Fargas, and not an article about talking shit about a man (Yukmouth) who is not only famous, but an international star who has made millions of dollars from rap! Step your fuckin research up “sports guy”!
I said I’d heard of him, but I’m sorry, he isn’t a huge star. If I have to do some “fuckin research” on a guy, he ain’t a star. He may be well known, he may have a few good songs, and he may hang with Justin Fargas. But a star? Comment the next time he sells out an arena as the headline act.
your a dumb piece of shit man “saturdays” yea ok fine… but fa real this contest started off with the dipset crew juelz and dem and it has elevated to every star out there wanting to be the biggest smoker. This contest is not just saturday kuz im willing to bet my klife you aint ever smoked half as much as uve seen on those videos. Kum on man yuk is beyond koo he is the bay area boss! E40 is da ambassador. we all know this so in better terms get ya media game up N**ga!!!
Yukmouth a bayarea boss? That fool just made it big on “I got 5 on it” and has been riding that song down to the bone marrow. And other than that tribute jam to 2pac…what has he done? A bunch of wack jams and dis tapes with sorry beats, I’d rather listen to some real gangsta shit like C-BO,KILLA TAY,MESSY MARV,LUNI COLEONE,BROTHA LYNCH even GUCCI MANE from the dirty south any day than some fool with a sore throat. I’ll tell you something, A bay area boss is one thats been putting it down for the bay like: Messy Marv,JT the Bigga Figga,San quinn,Too $hort,E-40,B-Legit and so forth. Shit I kick it with hella Raider players and I’m not a bay area boss just well known. Yuk had to go to texas under the Rap-A-Lot label to get known cause he was too good for the luniz.