The You Can't Make This Stuff Up Thread For 4/15/10: Who Knew Crooked Bankers Were Good MC's
Because it's too funny and infuriating at the same time : Politico reports that two years earlier, with WaMu at the center of the expanding subprime-mortgage bubble, company lenders gathered at a retreat in Hawaii to celebrate their wealth — by rapping. In a “Karaoke-style ode to greed – complete with faux WaMu rappers tossing play money into the crowd,” lenders re-mixed the 1992 hip-hop hit “Baby Got Back” into their own “I Like Big Bucks”: “I like big bucks and I cannot lie/You mortgage brothers can’t deny,” sang the WaMu rappers. The presentation, which included cheerleaders moving in time to the music, and choreographed moves by the singers, continued: “That when the dough roles in like you’re printin’ your own cash/And you gotta make a splash/You just spends/Like it never ends/“ Speechless am I. I have got to see if Sir Mix-A-Lot got some money from the bailout, even if Lehman Brothers is long gone. Better yet, did Sir Mix-A-lot get paid by WaMu for them even doing h...