Red Hot Chilli Pepper rapalbum for kids

Thu 15th Apr, 2010 in International News

Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith has teamed up with the 84 year old Dick Van Dyke – star of Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Diagnosis Murder – to record a rap album for kids.

Van Dyke told Spinner that “At my age, my generation, we are not particularly rap-crazy.” However, after performing as MC DVD he claims that “Rap has a great beat, but I swear to God, I have never been able to understand one word. I don’t know what they’re saying.”

Van Dyke provided the rhymes for the record, with Smith to laying down the beats for the 13-track album. The drummer, and father of five kids, also performs as a few characters on the record including a pirate and a train conductor.

Though this album doesn’t sound much like recent RHCP material, Smith claims that “I may not be playing as hard but I still am trying to be creative….just trying to make the songs as good as I can. That doesn’t change.”

Chatting to Spinner he admitted that “I am certainly no rapper but I helped guide Dick with it the first day. It was pretty funny. He can come away with it, because it’s supposed to be silly—that’s not his normal thing. He comes from a different world, but he was up for it, man.”