World Cup Rap Off: Clint Dempsey vs. Peter Crouch

June 2nd, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

With his now infamous Robot Dance goal celebration, England’s Peter Crouch is living la vida loco and sucking up his 15 minutes of fame. In addition to being a dancing fool, as you’ll see in the video below the big man can throw down some nasty lyrics. Crouch’s rapping performance is one for the ages, but how does it stand up to that of United States midfielder Clint “Duece” Dempsey? You be the judge.

Peter Crouch singing Ini Kamoze’s Here Comes The Hotstepper (credit to the Bratwurst boys for this find)

US National Team midfielder Clint Dempsey aka Deuce teams with rappers BIG HAWK and XO.

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R

Crouch should never, ever sing and he shouldn’t start for england. he can dance though :-)
http://shinymedia.blogs.com/whoateallthebratwurst/ OJ

Deuce lays the smackdown on Crouch!
Futahaguro

Wow, that is an embarrassing video of Crouch:)
zé

This one by crouch is also pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zv6pPtvA0E
Aldo

Crouch is the “goofy” of the World Cup… everybody loves him!!!

God bless the beautiful game…
owen

gotta fall aroundlaughing at the line “like the great Clint Dempsey!”

Just confirms what I knew – the US isn’t going to make it out of the first round. Too good at rapping, not good enough at football.

Crouchie may be gangly, ugly, can’t sing, etc., but he can lay the ball off, make his run, take the return, swivel and hit the half volley into the corner better than Dempsey ever will.

AND he knows his job on the team – it is to pull defenders off other players and lay the ball in to someone like Owen darting in. I rate him because he does his job well.

He’s the reason Terry got the goal against Uruguay. two defenders moved to cover him on the cross and left Terry open at the back post. And because he can take his shot they can’t afford to just ignore him.

But I totally agree – he shouldn’t be allowed near a microphone…

…and the Dempsey rap is actually pretty good (if rather more about Nike than the US!)
Mike

Duece got this easy.
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http://www.ussoccer.com Tomo

hey now deuce lays it down like the way we will on the czech and italian teams…. with brilliance.