If you don’t know who Lil John is then this picture will tell you everything you need to know.

Ishowed the photo to Gingell and she said, “He looks like an idiot.” (think the pimp cup may have given him away). This is correct, an idiot whose songs cost me £4 when I sang along in week four of a supposedly swear-free Lent.

First Offence

When you get into details you get into trouble, so I’m going to be nice and vague.  A friend of mine has recently broken up with his partner and I was trying to think of a song to play the next time she called (she seems to do that a lot).  When I was in the kitchen making tea, some lyrics popped into my head, then I started humming them and then (£2) I started singing “Move b***h, get out the way.  Get out the way b***h, get out the way.”  I’m nothing if not wholesome and witty.

Second Offence

I was in a club (it happens) and the DJ played one of Lil John’s songs, I sang the word b***s twice.  If this word ever was offensive (doubtful) it’s surely negated by a hundred other people singing along with me.  Nevertheless, in a challenge governed by an overly restrictive list that seems to grow more pointless by the day,  it still counts.

Week Four Total: £4
Grand Total: £22

Average Cost of Lent per Day: 85p

Last week I blamed Jay-Z and Beyoncé, this week I’m blaming Lil John.  It’s little wonder that Scribbleboy.co.uk got picked up by Global Grind (“The World According to Hip-Hop”).  The closest this blog ever came to urban was when I suggested you should buy Jean Grae’s album, This Week, somehow I doubt any of you listened.