Awesome things from the Internet: Krispy Kreme

A few weeks ago I came across this on the Know Your Meme website: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/krispy-kreme-rapper

It's really great stuff, it sounds pretty good, but the videos are just absolutely ridiculous in a really juvenile way; still, they're reasonably well put together.

Right away, I think most people were thinking this was one of 3 things:

Somebody with some video and production talent was putting some random kid up to this and was trolling
Krispy Kreme himself was trolling
Krispy Kreme was earnest about all of this and somehow managed to produce these songs and videos

I really wanted it to be #3. In the last few days, though, it seems that it's looking more and more like #2. This other guy on YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/user/SnapsNJays ) is claiming that Krispy Kreme's real name is Tyler Cassidy and that Krispy Kreme is really some kind of genius. He links to a PDF ( http://blog.mlive.com/flintcommunity_impact/2008/06/Graduates_section.pdf ) that lists a bit of information about Tyler. There are a few other videos on YouTube with songs that are claimed to be by Tyler Cassidy ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf0-19m-22s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr-m-_z23X8 are a few ) - to be honest, it's not bad. If Krispy Kreme really is putting all of this together in an effort to be noticed, then yeah - I think he is a genius. Mission Accomplished.

The big question on my mind now is: Is this really what it takes to get noticed now? Music acts used to have to play out in any club they could, give their music away to anybody who would listen, build a fan base, and hope to be signed one day. I'm not saying that the effort behind creating this character and keeping it going this long is any less than all of that, but it's certainly a lot different than sitting on a corner playing a guitar.

One way or the other, I really can't wait for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDK30pi1Cbs

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