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To this listener, Chicago rap duo Dude N' Em are on the verge of the breakthrough hit musicians crave. DJs play their track "Watch My Feet" at clubs, kids in the Midwest are doing the song's signature dance--known as "juking"--left and right, and the radio request line frenzy that started in Chicago is starting to spread throughout the country. Now, a little extra effort from Dude N' Em's label, TVT, should push the track from regional favorite to a contender for the novelty rap hit of the summer, right? Maybe a YouTube video contest? The kids like YouTube, right?
One would think $1000 might inspire someone to grab his parents' video camera and make a video for "Watch My Feet" But yesterday was the contest's submission deadline, and the YouTube group set up to feature contest submissions lists only ten videos. he news gets worse from there...of the ten videos, one is the contest announcement, one a video from TVT artist Lumidee, and four are ineligible for being over the time limit. One suggestion, TVT: Next time your label sets up a contest Web site, make sure the graphics dbring web browsers to a crashing halt.
That being said, the song is great, and the "juking" trend will give music bloggers a style of music to name-drop in front of confused fellow partygoers all summer long. Cross your fingers that YouTube user "probro34" picks up the cash prize for his ketchup-propped, face-kicking tribute:
Dude N' Em [MySpace]
Watch My Feet! [Mad Decent Blog]
[IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=zKlc2c[/IMG]
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One would think $1000 might inspire someone to grab his parents' video camera and make a video for "Watch My Feet" But yesterday was the contest's submission deadline, and the YouTube group set up to feature contest submissions lists only ten videos. he news gets worse from there...of the ten videos, one is the contest announcement, one a video from TVT artist Lumidee, and four are ineligible for being over the time limit. One suggestion, TVT: Next time your label sets up a contest Web site, make sure the graphics dbring web browsers to a crashing halt.
That being said, the song is great, and the "juking" trend will give music bloggers a style of music to name-drop in front of confused fellow partygoers all summer long. Cross your fingers that YouTube user "probro34" picks up the cash prize for his ketchup-propped, face-kicking tribute:
Dude N' Em [MySpace]
Watch My Feet! [Mad Decent Blog]
[IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/idolator/full?i=zKlc2c[/IMG]
More...