Detroit rapper creates hilarious song about bizarre corrugated iron slide that is set to reopen
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A Detroit rapper came up with a hilarious song about a bizarre, corrugated iron slide that reopened two years after it was first closed, before being shut down hours later, as videos online show kids taking to air while riding down the 40-feet descent.
The six-lane slide, which has been on Belle Isle since the 1960s, was open for only about half-a-day on Friday after being shut down during the entirety of the COVID-19 pandemic. Park officials closed it due to speed and safety concerns.
That prompted GMAC Cash to come up with a new song, in which he raps: ‘You can break your back, on the giant slide,’ and ‘You can even break your neck, on the giant slide. You can even bump your head, on the giant slide.’
The artist, also locally known as Gerald Allen, added other lyrics, such as ‘you can lose a tooth, on the giant slide,’ and that its ‘like jumping off a roof.’ The ride costs $1.
Locals and people online have grown to love the song, including it in TikTok videos and other clips of children riding the structure at high speeds in potato sacks.
Requirements to ride the slide include being at least four-feet tall, being able to fit in a potato sack and to lean forward while sitting up and hanging on to the potato bag
The Belle Isle Giant slide in Detroit, Michigan, was open for only about half-a-day on Friday after being shut down for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The slide has gone viral after Detroit-based rapper GMAC Cash released a rap on the slide’s metal structure, hurting people
GMAC Cash, also known as Gerald Allen, came up with the rap song after being inundated by fans to make a song about it
One video shared by TikTok user @timbrown696, showing the slide, racked up more than 10million views by Wednesday. It was first shared on Saturday.
New Girl actor Lamorne Morris, who appeared on Monday’s ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ even made a joke about GMAC Cash’s hit the show, saying: ‘I am so sorry, Beyoncé. That is the jam of the summer.’
Stand-up comedian Patton Oswalt is also a big fan of the rapper, retweeting his song on Tuesday with the caption: ‘Well well well sneaking the Song of the Summer in….’
GMAC Cash, whose Twitter bio refers to him as ‘Detroit’s own,’ is a parody rapper who initially gained nationwide recognition in 2016 when he came out with the hit ‘First Day At Popeyes’.
He also released another single, ‘Coronavirus’ in 2020, which has more than four million views on YouTube.
‘I’m like the voice of Detroit,’ he told The Washington Post on Tuesday. ‘Because anything that happens in the city, I’ll do a song about it.’
He added that he didn’t initially intend to write a song about the giant slide but that he had to come up with one after fans inundated him with requests.
He caved in and wrote the lyrics for the hit in a matter of minutes, as ‘it just went crazy,’ he told The Washington Post.
The song is also based on the 29-year-old rapper’s childhood, as he recalls riding the descent ‘over 100 times.’
‘It was real pretty, really yellow and blue,’ he said, reminiscing of the slide’s old design. ‘But now it just looks like a rusty building or something.’
The Belle Isle Park was built in 1967, and GMAC Cash has ridden it ‘over 100 times’ though he thinks its new structure ‘looks like a rusty building or something’
The ride was established in Belle Isle Park in 1967, before it went through a design overhaul, according to the Detroit Free Press. It closed in 2020 due to the pandemic, before reopening last weekend.
However, children were going down the slide at an unusual fast speed and footage shows them being airborne while others knocked their heads or other body parts against the ride’s metal structure.
Their speed could have been potentially enhanced by a new coat of wax on the slide, the Detroit Free Press suggested.
No injuries have been reported, reported the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, which oversees park operations.
In a Facebook post, park officials can be heard saying that they ‘scrubbed down the surface and started to spray a little water on the slide between rides to help control the speed.’
The Belle Isle Giant Slide is set to reopen this Friday, one park official said in another Facebook video demonstrating how to safely ride down the slide. Requirements to ride the slide include being at least four-feet tall, being able to fit in a potato sack and to lean forward while sitting up and hanging on to the potato bag.
‘You got to stay focused and leaning forward,’ GMAC told the Washington Post, adding that it’s ‘just like riding a bike.’
DailyMail.com has reached out to GMAC Cash and his representatives for comment.