Former Chelsea defender Mario Melchiot revealed he made a rap music with Manchester United coach Benni McCarthy.
Melchiot joined the Blues in 1999 and went on to play 165 instances for the membership – successful the FA Cup earlier than becoming a member of Birmingham City in 2004. But it was from his youthful days at Ajax that the Dutchman additionally discovered fame as a rapper.
The 22-time Netherlands worldwide revealed how his unlikely trio together with McCarthy and former Huddersfield Town and Barnsley midfielder Dean Gorre, grew fame away from soccer within the Dutch capital with a music that landed within the charts.
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Mario Melchiot completely instructed Ladbrokes Fanzone: “We have been at Ajax, all three of us: myself, Dean Gorre and Benni McCarthy. Gorre was requested by somebody if he needed to report a music: ‘OK, I’ll do it, but I need these two guys with me.’
“Those two guys have been me and Benni. So then we teamed up, all three of us, and the following factor you realize, I’m on this studio, with some microphone over my head and I’m singing ‘I’ve got the Midas touch… everything I touch turns to gold!
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“The subsequent factor you realize, we’re within the charts with it! The solely drawback was that Ajax have been performing so badly on the time, the coach, Jan Wouters, needed to inform us to cease acting at TV exhibits and occasions and to deal with soccer!
“I do not need to say I’m an artist, nor do I do know the whole lot that occurs behind the scenes, however I undoubtedly know the steps to constructing a music. It was written for us, then we discovered about it, went over it ourselves and made a number of modifications, after which I needed to learn to rap!
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“I haven’t heard it for so long! I can only remember a little bit of it, which comes into my head from time to time, even to this day: ‘Cool as ice,Dressed nice, nice, nice.Realise,I’m more than you can fantasise.’ That’s all I know! The rest I’ve completely forgotten!
“One thing I have to say, though: even to this day, apparently, if you walk into a store in Holland, they’ll still play that song. H&M for example, I heard, are always playing it. It’s crazy! And sometimes I’ll go to a bar in Holland, and the guy behind the bar will spot me… and the next thing you know, of course, that song comes on!
“It’s so funny; you can maybe become used to seeing people walking around wearing a football shirt with your name on it, but I’ll never get used to hearing people singing my song!”