Marc Cohn and Method Man aren’t names you typically see in the same sentence.
But “SNL”’s Pete Davidson – aka the Steward of Staten Island – achieved the glorious marriage with “Walking in Staten,”A love letter to the New York borough. Cohn’s 1992 classic, “Walking in Memphis.”
In the black and White video During this week’s “Saturday Night Live,”Davidson boasts that he puts on his own clothes “bootleg Jordans”Before he “touched down in the land of Colin Jost and the legendary Wu-Tang.”
The video mocks the proliferation of bagel spots and pizza joints (there’s even a bagel place IN a pizza joint) and calls on the ghost of actor Robert Loggia, a Staten Island native, before cutting to present-day Cohn, sitting on his couch on the phone.
“No, I don’t want to be in a parody of my own song,”Cohn speaks with irritation.
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He is already there, joining Davidson with his creative partner Big Wet. “I (Heart) Staten Island” hoodie.
As the trio jokes (in English) about Chris the Hobby GuyYouTube is a household name), drinking White Claw and the weirdness of nobody caring about the wild turkeys hanging out by the local hospital, Davidson sings about once seeing Method Man hitting a “hole in one, at the Safari Mini Golf.”
Enter the Wu – or at least just Method Man – who raps over the trademark piano lick of Cohn’s song, “My Yankee hat a statement and middle finger to Boston.”
If someone asks you, “Tell me, are you Italian?”, Method Man naturally responds with the same gusto from Cohn’s song, “Man, I am tonight!”
However, Davidson’s love/hate relationship to his hometown is a constant topic of conversation. He ends his remarks on a typical wry note. “Welcome to Staten, where everybody’s dreams go right down the drain.”
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