THA CROSSROADS. ON VIDEOKE. ISDASH*T.

The Back Story. Any of my good friends would tell you that everytime we have a videoke party, the first song I try to find on the songlist is "Tha Crossroads." By Bone Thugs N' Harmony, no less. Seriously.

While I was often disappointed in my quest, eventually I got used to the fact that no videoke operator in his right mind would include that song on the machine. Luckily, I was wrong; one was crazy enough to do so.

And so it was, last Friday, as we gathered 'round the rented videoke machine to celebrate my sister's birthday, my cousin found my goldmine. There it was on the songlist, "Tha Crossroads," and along with it came memories of sixth grade. It goes without saying that I wasted no time in punching in the code for that one.

Despite the crazily inaccurate lyrics, I tried to rap what I could. With the four minutes of that spit-it-or-die song and a bottle of beer I cradled in my hand, I knew that that was one of the most skewed definitions of happiness I've ever had. Sweet.