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Antoine Dodson: from local news item to internet sensation
Antoine Dodson's furious outburst on a news channel after a sex attack on his sister turned into a viral YouTube video and inspired a hit song. Now he is making the most of his fame
Earlier this year, the United States National Trust for Historic Preservation gave a special honour to the town of Huntsville, Alabama, naming it one of America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations for 2010. Huntsville, read the February citation, "offered cultural experiences different from the typical vacation destination". Seven months later, a young African-American from the poorest part of the town has vindicated that decision in a fashion that the judges could never have anticipated.
A week ago, Antoine Dodson was just another boy from "the projects", the run-down housing estates which are a feature of every American town and city. Living with his parents, siblings, nieces and nephews in Lincoln Park, where opportunities were few and far between, Dodson had few prospects of escape from his bleak surroundings. This weekend he is a cult hero for millions of young followers, has struck a business deal with Apple and hopes to move his entire family into a more upmarket neighbourhood. The story of how it happened is a modern fairytale combining issues of race, the media, music and the creative power of the web to transform the meaning of everyday events.
Dodson's remarkable ascent to internet stardom began with just another violent incident in Lincoln Park: a sexual assault on his sister, which the local television station chose to cover in its news round-up. Elizabeth Gentle of WAFF TV interviewed Dodson's sister Kelly after she was attacked in her bedroom by an intruder. The interloper had climbed on to the ledge underneath Kelly's window before sneaking in, jumping on her in bed and groping her.
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"You really are so dumb"
better yet, the rapist autotunes his own track and posts it on youtube and issues a battle for autotune supremacy...
I only hear terrible plug-in instruments combined with video samples showing an orchestra. So the requirements of ingeniousness seem to be at an all time low.
ok cool i did a search for bed intruder and nothing came up i didnt see your post. those cover versions posted in your thread are off the heezy too.
haha - the innurnets is mad fast sonnnnn
ss should do a dumb autotune some random ish competition. anyway this shit cracked me up.
i wonder how epic beard man is doing today? probably getting high in some alley...