[MUSIC] Syrus and Randal Paul Medford, "I Get On (The TTC)"

[rfmcdonald]

Tess Kalinowski in the Toronto Star picked up on a novelty song that Torontoist had picked up earlier, Syrus and Randal Paul Medford's TTC ode "I Get On (The TTC)."

It's been 22 years since the Shuffle Demons released their classic, "Spadina Bus," and more than half a century since "The Subway Song" celebrated the construction of the Yonge line in the 1950s.

Now there's a new ode to Toronto transit, a rap song and video called "I Get On (The TTC)," that has attracted thousands of hits on YouTube and social networking sites since it was posted last week by a couple of 21-year-old performers from Scarborough.

The affectionate, lighthearted look at the city's quintessential ride on the Rocket was written, performed and shot by Humber College student Syrus, whose real name is Rudolph Anthony Watson.

His friend, Randal Paul Medford, a former MuchMusic intern and graduate of Centennial College, assisted with the video shoot, backup vocals and 10 hours of editing on the project.

Shot in late November, the video is a playful parody of American rapper Young Jeezy's, "Put On," a song Syrus loved.

Instead of convertibles and scantily clad women, the Toronto duo's version features scenes from Keele and Kipling stations, the 43 Kennedy bus and the TTC stop near Syrus's home.

In one scene, Syrus spills a deck of Metropasses from his pocket. In another, Medford is shown chasing a bus down the road after it fails to stop for him.

"I take the subway from Kennedy to Kipling on a daily basis. I've got nothing to do basically and I'm in comedy writing so I figure I might as well take the hour and a half and write some stuff," said Syrus, an aspiring actor who is studying comedic performance at Humber College.

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I'm amused.