Run and tell that, fellow patriot.

Antoine Dodson, that ridiculous homeboy from the projects, teaches us more about the American Dream than The Great Gatsby.

Before you roll your eyes and close this window, remember that the title of this blog is, after all FAUX intellect. Now hear me out. Antoine Dodson took his 15 minutes of fame, and turned them into millions of youtube hits, facebook friends, tweets, and most importantly PAID downloads on itunes. This conniving motherfucker even somehow maneuvered his way onto The BET Awards the other night, as if he was some sort of genius black performer. In fact, he is just imploring cultural stereotypes and inviting all of America to laugh and him and his idiot sister-- whose rape case no longer matters--because stoned teenagers and bored middle schoolers get to laugh and sing along to their news interview turned autotune anthem.

This ridiculous nonsense turned chart topper, though, is what America is all about. People coming from humble beginnings taking their lives, and turning them into something more extravagant, more affluent, more...autotuned. As my friend Eddie Saviano pointed out, now all the little boys and girls watching The BET Awards can pray that one day if they play their cards right they can warn their sister's rapists that "we gon' find you."

But hell, he fucking did it. I'm sure when he's depositing his royalty checks, he's not too concerned about whether people are laughing with him or at him. It reminds me of the scene in Love Actually when the over the hill rock star Billy Mack is rerecording his hit song, but replacing the word "love" with the ill-fitting and overly cheesy "Christmas." Mack turns to his manager, and tells him that he thinks the new version is shit, after which, his manager replies "solid gold shit!" Antoine Dodson is making virtual, viral, gold shit.



Courtesy of the one and only Michal Meer, here's Antoine Dodson's BET performance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNky6v2ZSNI
Climbing in your windows and snatching your gold shit up,
G