"But I did it, I kept hitting which is always a bonus, and then everybody liked the song, and everybody was tweeting about it." "I didn't necessarily want to because I was hitting well with that other song I had," Crisp said. When Inge went on the DL, Crisp decided someone had to come out to a Bernie song. "I was checking it out and I was like, 'Man this dude is hilarious,'" Crisp said. (Yes there's actually more than one Bernie song.) The song they were shooting the video for is called "Bernie Lean." A different spin on the Bernie that Crisp discovered when rapper ATM sent him the link on Twitter. That's a different song altogether though.
Once it was introduced to the masses, it exploded. Brandon Inge then made it his walk up song. The craze all started when Blevins discovered ISA's song "Moving Like Bernie" and played it for Crisp, who then played it in the clubhouse for the team. "It's one of those things where as a baseball player you are presented with random opportunities to do cool stuff, and that was definitely one of them." The players rallied around the opportunity. They were doing the Bernie, the cult dance craze loosely based on "Weekend At Bernie's II" that has spread through the A's clubhouse and into the stands.Īs part of "Bernie Weekend" at the Coliseum, Coco Crisp and the A's invited the Bernie Lean musicians out to shoot a music video on Friday and Saturday. A's manager Bob Melvin looked on - likely in horror. OAKLAND - "Can you Bernie Lean? Can you, can you Bernie Lean? I can Bernie Lean, I can, I can Bernie Lean."Īs the lyrics to ATM & IMD's Bernie Lean song reverberated through the empty Oakland Coliseum, a group of eight A's players tilted back and wiggled to the beat (or in some cases off beat) with the young Los Angeles-based rappers and their camera man.