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Viral Video: Getting Jiggy in the “Whole Foods Parking Lot”

Kara Swisher in Media on June 27, 2011 at 12:30 am PT

This is one of the more perfect spoofs, as a yuppie-in-the-hood raps about quinoa in the “Whole Foods Parking Lot.” Yes, quinoa. Also kale.

Viral Video: The JaneDear Girls Hook Up With the Lip-Synch Phenom on YouTube

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 2:59 am PT

BoomTown is officially voting for the JaneDear Girls, after seeing the hot country duo’s effective use of Keenan Cahill, a.k.a. the weird little lip-synch dude on YouTube. While the pair–Susie Brown and Danelle Leverett–have been rocketing up the country charts with their self-titled debut album, they delivered a rap-style offering, called “Need Ya Vote,” using the odd Cahill’s talents.

Viral Video: Shazzazz Is Back Doing It

Kara Swisher in News on January 5, 2011 at 1:42 am PT

On “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” earlier this week, the host and Hollywood actress Gwyneth Paltrow revived their mock ’80s R&B duo Shazzazz, after a first music video in May. It’s all about doing it.

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Amazon Can't Dent iTunes

Ethan Smith and Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 17, 2010 at 3:31 pm PT

On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles’ catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock–whose music still isn’t available on iTunes–for just $3.99.

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Music Video For Database Start-Up? That's How CouchOne Rolls

Deborah Gage, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:08 am PT

How does a small Bay Area start-up whose business revolves around arcane coding compete for developers with the likes of Facebook and Google? By making a rap video, of course.

New From Symantec: Norton Antivizzle for PCizzle

John Paczkowski in News on September 2, 2010 at 10:04 am PT

Hip-hop star and noted role model Snoop Dogg is now lending his considerable moral authority to the fight against cybercrime. He’s teamed up with security software vendor Symantec to host an anti-cybercrime rap video contest.

R.I.P. Senator Ted "Tubes" Stevens

Kara Swisher in News on August 10, 2010 at 2:40 pm PT

The Internet likes to spoof on politicians who make digital faux pas, such as former Vice President Al “I invented the Internet” Gore and Internets-loving former President George W. Bush. And former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, who was tragically killed in a small airplane accident Monday, was no exception, never able to shake a speech in which he called the Web a “series of tubes.”

Cisco Intern Rapper Beware! Here's a Challenge From Yahoo Intern Dude.

Kara Swisher in News on June 30, 2010 at 5:01 am PT

Earlier this week, BoomTown posted a video from a rapping intern at Cisco named Greg Justice, who dubbed himself the “world’s most interesting” intern. The claim prompted another intern from Yahoo, Rich Yueh, to send me a very good video he made in 2007, which won an internal video contest at the Internet giant.

If a Cisco Intern Raps on YouTube, Does It Make an Interesting Sound?

Kara Swisher in News on June 28, 2010 at 10:02 am PT

Here’s a video of Greg Justice, a social media intern in the Cisco Systems Communications department, who has just dubbed himself “The World’s Most Interesting Intern.” A sample of a challenge Justice is putting out to other corporate summer servants via a rap song: “I’m courteous and affable, my name badge is retractable/You other interns laughable, your thermos must be half as full.”

Viral Video: Pants May Be on the Ground–But Web Views Are Way Up!

Kara Swisher in News on January 19, 2010 at 2:02 am PT

The bizarre but catchy “Pants on the Ground” rap song performance by Atlanta’s Larry Platt, delivered with verve during an audition for the “American Idol” television competition, now has two million views on YouTube and has spurred a plethora of comic knockoffs. They are all surprisingly good.