Disclaimer: This submission contains a reference to a rap record. If you are one of those countless FA'ers who hate rap, do me a favor and hit the [BACK] button now. Even though I don't care for the majority of rap songs out there, I really, really, DO NOT want to hear it from you. This submission is supposed to be humorous, and anyone attempting to suck the funny out of this pic by voicing their disdain for rap will see their comment hidden.

11/01/15 Edit: Changed YouTube link to "official" upload--original link got copyright nuked.

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This pic is the result of a rather delayed revelation concerning a 2007 Jay-Z song called "I Know" from the American Gangster soundtrack. Back when most MP3 players had around 1GBb of memory, I snagged this one off the air (fm recording function) because it sounded a lot like a number of R&B songs I had previously recorded on the device. (You can hear the song here on YouTube). At first, lines like:



"She want those heroin tracks"


sounded a trifle strange, but I dismissed it as slang, or some nonsense line that just happened to fit. Note that I had never seen American Gangster (or even read a plot summary), so I didn't have a context for the song beyond it sounding like Jay-Z's character using drug references to describe all the pleasures he could/did supply a new girlfriend, and how much she appeared to depend on what he provided.



"I am your prescription, I'm your physician, I'm your addiction"



As I alternately added more songs to my player, then moved my collection to larger and larger players, I heard the song less and less (I keep my players on "Shuffle" and don't bother with playlists). But I kept getting a vibe off that record that was inconsistent with what I had concluded it was about. I never watched the video, or analysed the lyrics because the song had by then become relatively unimportant, almost filler. That's how it stayed for a number of years.
Until one day it comes up in the shuffle and a something clicked:

"Now your body is shaking, trying to free it(self) of me"

It wasn't some dude talking about his relationship with some woman. It was the drugs she was addicted to "speaking" of her.

...Which was shortly followed by a mental image very much like the one above. Instead of Jay-Z, every time I Know comes up in the rotation, I'm picturing a music video (still haven't watched the real one) with an animated syringe dancing and singing the lines to this song much like a 1930's 'toon would. Considering the subject matter, it's even (perhaps inappropriately) funnier. I think this qualifies as one of those " Funny Anueryrsm Moments" described on TvTropes.org.

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Technical: I think it must have taken longer to write this description than it did to actually draw the pic (typing the first half out on an Android tablet while riding home on the subway can do that). It started as a thumbnail that actually turned out well enough to become the finished image. This time I resisted the urge to fully embellish the drawing with a full-color backdrop, as this is really more a brain dropping than a fully-realized artwork, though I know some out there would beg to differ. In case you were wondering, yes the character design was indeed influenced in part by atomicstoney's series of "1930's toon style" commissions. I'm sure she won't mind--there's lots of prior art, and I couldn't begin to figure out how to draw anything else in this style :)

Single-layer image, brush-inked pencils. Processed with Micrografx Picture Publisher