Sup Internet? [Welcome new peoples]
I know I chronically neglect this website (your best bet for actually catching up-to-date news is to check me out on facebook at www.facebook.com/satellitehigh) but I realize that there are probably a handful of new people stumbling across this site due to the developments of the past week.
Long story short, for those who don’t know, last week I recorded a parody campaign song for South Carolina Senatorial candidate Alvin Greene. If you’re unfamiliar with the bizarre story of Mr. Greene, I’d look into it, but suffice it to say that he’s far from a traditional candidate, and has a lot of facets of his story that seemed ripe for parody. A friend of mine who operates a satirical Alvin Greene twitter account was like “hey, let’s make a campaign video”, so I recorded the most obnoxiously anachronistic Fruity Pebbles rap I possibly could, and handed it off to the dude who ended up making a YouTube video and hosting it. And that’s where the fun began.
The New York Times assumed the video was a legitimate campaign ad from the Greene camp and reported on it as such. Immediately, other news outlets started citing the NYT article and writing their own articles. It was a full day before I was finally contacted by CNN about the video to ’set the record straight’. Since then, the video’s turned into a little bit of a sensation, and has been targeted for multiple takedown notices from a prominent conservative group founded by a member of Americans For Prosperity, who seems to be a little shook about the attention this is granting to Jim DeMint’s opponent.
Here is a link to a piece on Mr. Destructo which breaks down the story in greater detail, if you’re interested.
For those whose first introduction to my music is from this whole fiasco, I’d like to extend an invitation to listen to some of my music that isn’t a big ol’ joke, depending on who you ask. I have three albums worth of non-parody music that are all free (or pay-what-you-want) releases, “The Shark Week Mixtape Vol. 1″, “Shark Week”, and “This Mic is a Pipe Bomb”. All are available using the links on the right-hand side of the page, and if you’re into hip hop, they’re worth listening to, in my humble opinion of course. Please download ‘em, share ‘em with your friends, etc.
Also, you can follow me on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/lildanzig but be forewarned that I work a desk job and get bored a lot and have a tendency to update quite
frequently.
I’m currently working on a handful of collaborative projects, trying to break myself out of the “working by myself” rut, and have a bunch of new solo tracks as well, although I’ve been trying to maintain much more discipline about leaking out tracks as I make them so I can actually have some album joints you haven’t already heard next time around.
Here’s a link to the Olbermann piece, which I think may be the last place on the net that this video exists without risk of a Frank Industries take-down notice. When they say “San Francisco-based producer Jay Friedman”, that’s me.
Big ups to virgiltexas for making the video, engaging in social engineering, and all of the other hard work that went into this beyond recording a joke song.
