Inverse Hips, Hops

I have to send some love to my boys Tunji and Toby - otherwise known as Inverse (”remember the name”). They’re not exactly straight outta Compton, but they’re just as badass.

Tunji was my male sponsor my freshman year at Pomona. (For more on the sponsor program, click here.) He has the honorable - or perhaps dubious - distinction of being the first really, really amazingly hot guy I’d ever seen with his shirt off. Let me tell you people, I damn near creamed myself.

Toby - or as he’s sometimes known “Jewpac Kippur” - is Tunji’s partner in rap. He’s my boy back from the days when he played the kid who turns into a raccoon - or was it a cat? - in Don Bluth and Dan Kuenster’s cinematic masterpiece, Rock-a-Doodle. He was also on an episode of “Cheers” and in the movie “Black Sheep” with Chris Farley and David Spade. Once upon a time, while being incredibly dorky in the recording studio while Tunji was trying to rap, Toby and I came up with the fabulous line, “I’m so gully, I’m Fern Gully.” Incidentally, he too has a smokin’ body.

But enough making fun. These guys are some serious rappers - the real fucking deal. And their recent performance at The Space in Santa Monica kinda proves it. If you overlook the fact that Tunji’s hat makes him look kind of dorky, you can see that both of these fools can seriously flow.

I eagerly await the release of their record, Long Day’s Journey.