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On Saturday Night Live, host and musical guest Olivia Rodrigo experiences a strange ride: her white driver suddenly starts loudly singing along to a Jamaican dancehall song – and surprisingly well.
Marcy (Rodrigo) and her friend (Veronika Slowikowska) are on their way into the night and chat harmlessly for a few minutes before their driver (Andrew Dismukes) changes the mood in the car forever.
“Ya put it on me and I go beast mode / Ya put it on me like chicken on rice / In me bed and I gonna hit it twice,” he sings.
Driver in shock
After about two verses, the driver himself is horrified by what has just burst out of him – his passengers stare at him in embarrassment.
“Is the temperature okay in the back?” he asks, avoiding the topic. But Marcy asks.
“What was that?” she asks. “You aggressively sang a Jamaican dancehall song. Really loud.”
Talent against will
“I don’t know what that was,” he replies, completely perplexed that he just made up the lyrics out of nowhere. “I know as much as you do. Can we just forget about it?”
But they can’t, and he becomes increasingly irritable.
“I just realized I’m one of the most talented MCs on the planet! I don’t want that as my life. I don’t want to be a white Rasta guy!” he shouts over and over again.
Inescapable fate
When the girls try to calm him down by saying the song wasn’t that good, he doesn’t believe a word they say: “That was next level. And I can’t escape my fate.”
Shortly afterwards he’s singing again – and the two of them gradually start to get carried away.
