Yo! Go!: Michael Nykerk’s new rap tune...

Yo! Go!: Michael Nykerk’s new rap tune didn’t win any Grammys. But it has proved popular with Chevys.

Nykerk makes novelty car alarms with voices that warn approaching pedestrians to stay away in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Japanese and Thai. And he came out with rap versions in English and Spanish.

The fastest seller is the rap-in-English, which was recorded by a professional singer who prefers to remain anonymous, according to Nykerk, founder of Canoga Park-based Invisibeam.

It begins:

Yo! I know you wanna look INSIDE ,

B u t I suggest you step away from the RIDE!

If the passerby refuses to pass by, it continues:

Ease back from the ride, stop hangin’ AROUND.

Cuz if you don’t, my alarm will SOUND!

There is one more warning:

You violated the perimeter BEAM.

You now have five seconds to leave the SCENE!

The voice counts down and if the intruder still refuses to step back, the horn erupts into a honking barrage, the lights flash crazily and the voice shouts:

Someone’s tryin’ to break into my RIDE!

Nykerk, who says he received numerous requests from customers for the rap alarm, has resisted other suggestions, including a system that would allow car owners to program their own voices into the alarm.

“We’re afraid that people would use foul language on our product,” he explained.

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