Chalk

If anyone's watched any ESPN as of late you've seen that new LeBron James NIKE "Chalk" ad that cameos Lil' Wayne for a two-shot total of about 0.6 seconds. The commercial's black and white and rad, but what was surprising to me was the song choice of Cornershop's "Candyman" feat Justin Warfield, a great track from Cornershop's record When I Was Born For the 7th Time, released in 1997 on David Byrne's label Luaka Bop. The rest of the record is pretty great as well, including a cover of the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)." I remembering picking this CD up at a bookstore in Cape Cod years and years and years ago and loving it. Glad to see it slip into the current mainstream again (the other being a fairly recent Target ad with their song "Good Shit" reworked to "Good Stuff").