Mario, Luigi, the Princess, evil koopa troopers and big bad bowser are but a mere memory for many generation X and Y video gamers. Super Mario Brothers was a the epitome of childhood bliss. Before the internet captivated us with its vast and unfathomable matrix of ideas, game systems like Nintendo were there to babysit us when our parents were too damn cheap to hire a baby-sitter. Playing this game was a good way to laugh in the face of a two-week confinement to your bedroom. Even though Mario had few redeeming qualities, him and Luigi had a way of making time and space evaporate.

Wow, I get an extra life for that thought. Why? Because this is my segue; music is also a fixture in my life that deletes time and space. Hmmm, how can you, the reader, benefit from this piece? Ahh, I got it, meet me at the top of the next paragraph.

Hey, it’s you again. I want you to meet a friend of mine. Benefit, reader, reader, Benefit. I don’t really know much about Benefit, because he is a shy guy, he keeps to himself. However, all that I need to know is on this song he released some time back. “Super Mario Brothers Rap: Warp to World 69″ is the name of the song. His song is a very elegant presentation of sophisticated ideals regarding Post-Modernist manfestations. SYKE! “Warp to World 69″ is clearly a pervert’s four minutes of fame. Excuse me, Benefit, I’m just being real.

He must have been wasted and/or blunted when this song was written because the material is clearly bonkers, bananas, bugged out. The song starts out with a quote from A Bronx Tale. I love you guys, so I will not spoil it for you, but I will give you a preview of the chorus: “Save the Princess quick because she wants the dick, and if you let her free you get the pussy.” I hope you didn’t swallow that because it will be swimming around in your stomach until you “liberate your liquids.”

Aside from the foolishness the song promotes, its lyrics are clever, funny and entertaining amongst the lewdness and crudeness. Notwithstanding, Benefit has a flow that is to be respected. Or, like Rakim used to say, “he let’s the rhythm hit ‘em.” The only other rapper that has come up with similar levels of zaniness is Eyedea, or Eminem in his Slim-Shady LP days. I salute Benefit with a fart, a burb and a headbutt. Although his twisted Beavis and Butthead/ “scratch your nuts” lyrics are perverted, they are unquestionably beneficial to the colorful character of Hip-Hop music.

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