PaqRap - Compaq VPs, 1990

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  • Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
  • Here's Rod Canion and (most of) the original senior VPs for Compaq Computer Corporation, rapping(!) and acting goofy for the cameras in a music video, circa 1990.

    Why this "Beat Big Blue" video seemed necessary to make is known only to those who participated (if even they can recall). It was a very different time for Compaq back then... Streams of seemingly endless cash flowed like wine through department budgets. Indeed, at this point in history those at the helm of Compaq felt that they could do no fiscal wrong and, for a while, they were right.

    So, for your musical enjoyment(?), here's Rod and his home boys layin' down some bling bling, fat-cat style, big cigars and all!
    EDITOR NOTE: I had originally labeled this clip as containing the Cpq Board of Directors... that was, of course, erroneous. It finally dawned on me that I was, in fact, seeing the senior VPs - aka Top Brass - that actually ran the place at the time. So, please pardon the incorrect titling in the beginning and end of the video. These things happen. I'm getting old and I had a senior (VP) moment.

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  • @Mcooley55
    @Mcooley55 10 років тому +20

    My name is Ross and I like to dance selling computers is like making romance. HahaXD that's my grandpa

  • @jetzine00
    @jetzine00 7 років тому +14

    These ARE technically the original gangsters.

  • @10shatrunjay
    @10shatrunjay 3 роки тому +5

    I wonder if someday UA-cam's recommendation algo will pick this video up and make it viral

    • @Izumisensei2004
      @Izumisensei2004 2 роки тому +1

      Hopefully it'll do it

    • @KillaCyst
      @KillaCyst Місяць тому

      It hasn't but it showed up on my Facebook memories when I favorited it 14 years ago

  • @vwestlife
    @vwestlife 17 років тому +5

    Compaq may have had great PCs for their era, but the audio and graphics for this video were almost definitely done on a Commodore Amiga!

  • @emocormatt
    @emocormatt 11 років тому +6

    My name is Gordon we fix 'em right
    A hammer & pliers get 'em night & tight
    Tight-tight-ight-ight

  • @ARMTOAST
    @ARMTOAST 11 років тому +7

    2:31 is the greatest rap verse of all time.
    "I AM THE EAGLE" *closeup*

  • @mohamedaf4044
    @mohamedaf4044 Рік тому +2

    If The Room was the greatest bad movie ever made, then PaqRap has to be the greatest bad rap video of all time. It's so badly beautiful it brings a tear to my eye..

  • @bd9267
    @bd9267 6 років тому +6

    Sex offender shuffle ripped this off, it's so obvious.

    • @dandegroodt2144
      @dandegroodt2144 2 роки тому

      Did you ever hear the Wendy's rap song about how to pour a drink? It's funny

  • @matawin2
    @matawin2 13 років тому +5

    i keep playing this goddamn song all the time now xD, on my compaq presario of course

  • @iladelproductions8820
    @iladelproductions8820 5 років тому +3

    Someone had to actully appoved this ideA LMAOOO.

  • @SlobbyHill
    @SlobbyHill 13 років тому +3

    Now I know where Tim and Eric get their ideas...

  • @Melhem97
    @Melhem97 13 років тому +4

    Compaq good old days :/

  • @tra-viskaiser8737
    @tra-viskaiser8737 Місяць тому

    Rap from all the humans who work for my favorite klingon computer manufacturer..
    Com PaQ!

  • @KilobyteBrain
    @KilobyteBrain 17 років тому +3

    Haha, I'm on a compaq laptop right now.

  • @cassettiespagetie
    @cassettiespagetie 17 років тому +1

    Love it sooo much

  • @TheHighBuddha
    @TheHighBuddha 3 роки тому +2

    I dont know what drugs inspired this music but I dont want any.

  • @Kyntteri
    @Kyntteri 3 роки тому +1

    "U know, selling a computer is like making love to beautiful woman..."

  • @dansullivan8968
    @dansullivan8968 24 дні тому

    Yep, those were days of very special days.

  • @artifactingreality
    @artifactingreality 13 років тому +3

    i got a degree in market... ing

  • @Miniclash
    @Miniclash 13 років тому +2

    Sounds like "Just two Guyz"

  • @lexusdevotee
    @lexusdevotee 14 років тому +1

    haha I watched this video on a Compaq (post-HP merger) computer!

  • @punksnotdead4766
    @punksnotdead4766 5 років тому +2

    Worst company I worked for in my 30 years

    • @Izumisensei2004
      @Izumisensei2004 4 роки тому

      is the best company ever, Compaq defeated IBM on computer market

    • @punksnotdead4766
      @punksnotdead4766 4 роки тому

      Izumi - sensei It’s probably just that my manager was an asshole

  • @TheDjKoul
    @TheDjKoul 4 роки тому

    Some studio was lucky to dick Compaq to pay for this team-building video ))))

  • @adamgregory9198
    @adamgregory9198 6 років тому

    Bill is reeeeeally creeping me out. This makes the superbowl shuffle look like a Drake song. It's a shame this video isn't more well known, it cracks me up every time. Tim and Eric couldn't make a fake song half this bad.

  • @DeadVirus0
    @DeadVirus0 11 років тому +10

    White People: The Music Video

    • @Jesse-cx4si
      @Jesse-cx4si 7 років тому +3

      DeadVirus0 That's funny shi-! I'm white and this video made me uncomfortable as f---. Compaq was an amazing company but sweet Moses this video is bad.

  • @seffola
    @seffola 14 років тому +1

    This is bad, not bad meaning good but bad meaning BAD!

  • @heatheyleathey
    @heatheyleathey 14 років тому

    AOTS FTW!!!

  • @cflo1386
    @cflo1386 5 років тому

    Wow

  • @Aken12
    @Aken12 4 роки тому +1

    Holy Chringe....

  • @jsizemo
    @jsizemo 7 місяців тому

    Ugh, 1:07

  • @mryeti94
    @mryeti94 14 років тому +1

    AOTS!!!!!

  • @Landofjello
    @Landofjello 14 років тому

    I just saw this AOTS lol. I wanted to see if this is really true.

  • @ArisBates
    @ArisBates 14 років тому

    hhahaha lol

  • @Iz7zI
    @Iz7zI 14 років тому +1

    AOTS

  • @MrBallmer
    @MrBallmer 13 років тому +2

    Were are they now? O Yea part of a computer company that stop't making PCs!!

    • @Altoclarinets
      @Altoclarinets 4 роки тому +1

      DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

  • @SamIIs
    @SamIIs 2 роки тому

    This is what happens when businesses don't recognize an ethnically and gender ("women" real ones) divers board of directors. Obviously Compaq demise was a result of living to much in the present because in their shortsightedness someone thought making this video was a great idea and they all agreed with it probably having just returned from the 19 Hole's two martini lunch to commemorate the six figure bonuses they just received.Well must remember not to hate the player, but to hate the game.

  • @Arthur3835
    @Arthur3835 13 років тому +1

    Jesus H Christ!!! If theres one thing i hate its this type of phoney "Team building" bullshit. Only in America !!!

    • @Jesse-cx4si
      @Jesse-cx4si 7 років тому +2

      Arthur3835 This was not a "team building" exercise. Compaq could do no wrong for several years and these dorks just wanted to make a "rap" video. A bad, very bad, video. Oh, and yes, only in the USA. Where else on earth could three guys create the fastest growing company in history at the time? Duh. Be proud of these possibilities! Or move to some 3rd world country and whine about the American Dream from there.

    • @TheDjKoul
      @TheDjKoul 4 роки тому

      @@Jesse-cx4si were these three guys half-wits ? or why you speak of american dream ? making a computer is something miraculous that happens only in America and shall be compared to a dream ?

  • @Altoclarinets
    @Altoclarinets Рік тому

    "why this Beat Big Blue video seemed necessary to make..." It's a parody of the Chicago Bears' Super Bowl Shuffle from 1985, which can be seen at ua-cam.com/video/8O6GCHz7lMA/v-deo.html . The original was something of a proto-meme song: it charted in the hot 100, was parodied or pastiched by a lot of different businesses at the time and even inspired the much later Sex Offender Shuffle viral video

  • @spater25
    @spater25 14 років тому

    AOTS