MadTV: Gangsta Shop Quartet
 

This is probably my all-time favorite skit from MadTV (been looking forever to find this online).

Gangsta Barbershop Quartet

Always a classic! lol

Haven't seen that in awhile. Thanks for the memories.

If you check out this Jonathan Coulton blog entry, he lists a large number of great easy covers of hard stuff - I really like Nina Gordon's Strait Outta Compton.

coming back in with more thoughts...

What part of this appeals to you? I have a huge number of genre-bending covers. If it's the barbershop, there's Metal Shop by Da Vinci's Notebook (classic metal song medley). And don't forget the eleven polka medleys that Weird Al Yankovic has done over his career so far.

^--- Was a fan of MadTV back in the day, and this was just something I didn't expect from them.

The best "hard stuff done slow" is DMX's Party Up covered by Joe Cumia to his acoustic guitar. I can't find it on YouTube, but definitely search for it, or hit me up for an MP3.

A friend of mine does that sort of thing all the time - turns any song into a ballad.