Tom Hanks’ Son Chet Hanx Turns His Stupid Meme Into A Music

Maybe you’re familiar with Chet Hanx, the rapping son of screen icon Tom Hanks. A decade in the past, when he was even now a college or university pupil who used the name “Chet Haze,” Hanx was a large Videogum favored. A calendar year back, Hanx was the person who introduced to the globe that his mothers and fathers had coronavirus. Proper now, Hanx is generally acknowledged for the 3-phrase phrase “White Boy Summertime.” On Instagram a pair of months back, Hanx introduced to the environment, “I just bought this emotion, person, that this summertime, it is about to be a white boy summertime.”

That clip promptly went viral for its intriguing ranges of cluelessness — for blissfully disregarding the idea that it’s in essence been a white boy summer months just about every summer months for thousands of several years. (Hanx clarified that he’s “not talking about Trump, you know, NASCAR-type white,” which is beneficial.) Alternatively than backtracking, though, Hanx steered suitable into it, providing “White Boy Summer” merch that appears vaguely white ability-ish. Right now, Hanx has released a new tune about the white boy summertime that, he insists, is about to occur.

As a piece of tunes and as a video, “White Boy Summer” is a fascinating kaleidoscope of cultural appropriation. The track sounds a bit like Bay Location hyphy. In the video clip, Hanx dances with a sequence of women of all ages, bouncing his head off their asses. He wraps himself in a Jamaican flag and poses up coming to a lowrider. He also raps in pretend patois: “Bad gyal, white don dada/ rude bwoy, it is a white boy summertime.” He notes that “white ladies love Madonna”? It’s a lot. Witness it beneath.

In more major information, TMZ studies Chet Hanx’s ex is now suing him for $1 million, professing physical abuse. Hanx’s lawyers deny the expenses.