Cole Beasley is the Popeye of rap music

Cole Beasley's debut rap record, 'The Autobiography.' is among the top new albums on iTunes. COLDNATION RECORDS
Cole Beasley's debut rap record, 'The Autobiography.' is among the top new albums on iTunes. COLDNATION RECORDS

By BILLY JOE JESSUP

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Cole Beasley dropped his first album last week, “The Autobiography,” and the opening track makes him the Popeye of rap music.

“I Am What I Am” is the first song. Really!?!?!? That’s the best @Bease11 could come up with for a song title!?!?!?

 

Apologies to all who are sick of Yanny and Laurel, but for me, there’s kind of a Yanny and Laurel thing going with Cole Beasley and Popeye.

When I hear The Bease singing “I Am What I Am,” I think of the cartoon character who goes all the way back to 1929. He yam what he yam.

 

Beasley’s first single, “80 Stings,” is better than the opening song. It’s not Cole Porter, but then this is the 21st century. Here’s a sample of the lyrics:

“I’m bossed out, but Sunday Jerry’s boss now when I ball out, I’m a dog when Dak get the ball out.”

And you can hear the song and see all the lyrics right here:

I have no plans to listen to the rest of the album, which has 13 songs, but I like “80 Stings,” where The Boy has got beats and is busting rhymes.

Written by Billy Joe Jessup

Billy Joe Jessup, 66, is a Mississippi good old boy who saw himself as the Southern Richard Meltzer back in 1974 and 1975. Jessup wrote two satiric sports articles for the rock music magazine Zoo World when he was in his early 20s, but ZW rejected his third article, killing his confidence so much that he battled writer's block for more than four decades until his Guy Hut breakthrough in March 2018.