“Why, at the peak of his powers — the same year he commanded a reported $3 million salary for Lethal Weapon 4 — did Joe Pesci feel the need to dip his toes into the rap game?”
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As the legend goes, Joseph Frank Pesci’s rise to fame began when Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro called the actor up one fateful night in 1979, plucking him from relative obscurity for a supporting role in Raging Bull, which would earn him the first of three Oscar nominations. By the time Pesci’s acting career took off, though, he had already made an outsize impact on the world of popular music.
As the song’s funky instrumental — lifted wholesale from Blondie’s “Rapture” — kicks in, Pesci repeatedly invokes what I can only presume to be a wiseguy mantra: “It’s the bitches that’ll get yas.” Try as you might, his particular pronunciation of the phrase will rattle around in your brain for days on end, occasionally escaping your mouth as you mindlessly clean your apartment for the thousandth time since COVID-19 began.
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