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August 14, 2020

RZA made a "non-racist" ice cream jingle

Wu-Tang Clan frontman RZA teamed up with American ice cream company Good Humor to pen its new ice cream truck jingle, Vanity Fair reports. It might seem funny, but RZA has pointed out that the popular ice cream truck jingle 'Turkey in the Straw', often heard from trucks has a history rooted in racism, explaining the song was popularized via minstrel shows "and some adaptations paired it with hateful, racist lyrics". RZA hopes his new jingle will be adopted by ice cream truck drivers all over, so it's been made free to use. It will even be included as an industry-standard in ice cream truck music boxes.