3 more Local Celebrity shirts just dropped in Urban Outfitters...

...His very own Local Celebrity shirt!  Only a very small amount of these shirts were made and are signed by the legend himself, so move quick to get one.  Learn more about D. Blaze below...

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For those of you who are thinking, "Who's this white dude with a mullet and why is he on a Local Celebrity shirt?", I'll inform you.  Denny Blaze, aka Average Homeboy, planted seeds in the late 80's by sending his demo tape to MTV in hopes that once they saw his toned upper-body, loads of athleticism, unassuming demeanor, and smoothed-out rapping, the record deal would be drafted up and ready to be signed right away.  Instead, MTV decided the world wasn't ready for D. Blaze yet, so they stuck the demo tape in a dark closet and as time went on, they forgot all about the Average Homeboy from Louisville, Ohio. 

18 years and a few technological achievements later, a curious MTV employee was looking through that old video archive and saw, on a dimly-lit shelf labeled, "The World Can't Handle This", an intriguing demo video sent in by a Mr. Blazin' Hazin'.  Alone in the room, she popped the video in their dusty old VHS machine, and just as she was about to push play she heard a small whisper say, "If you post it, they will come".  A little creeped out, she proceeded to watch the demo video of all demo videos, and found herself completely blazed at the sight of the first flash of colors on the screen.  

After a quick digital conversion of the video it was on YouTube and the world responded.  After just 2 weeks the video racked up over a million views, and the rest is history.

Denny has since re-posted the video, losing it's original view count.   Some people would cringe at the thought of erasing millions of views, but for D. Blaze it's all about the rapping.  He wanted to make sure we got the full version of his video so we could drink in the full amount of awesomeness.  Thank you Denny Blaze, for keeping it real and giving all of us average folk hope that one day we might get noticed too.

Without further delay, Average Homeboy!

Dope beat.  Not sure the song actually has a meaning...but I love it nonetheless.

One of our A-Lister's, MariaJ just sent us a video of her bustin' a few rhymes at Unite 4 Haiti while rocking our Gangster Rap Made Me Do It t-shirt.  Lookin' good, sucka!

...When you can't trust a 62 year old General anymore?!  Apparently General Larry Platt, from American Idol, bit off the Green Brothers' 1996 song called "Back Pockets On The Floor".  I guess when you've lived 62 years and seen so much, it's hard to not be inspired?  I don't know...either way it gives me a good excuse to watch the old man do the splits again. 

Take a look at the two videos...you be the judge.

Bottom line, the dude's a beast.

When LA is getting pummeled with rain, you can generally expect(or at least hope) the surrounding mountains will get pummeled with snow.  The past few days have been exactly that scenario.  Tornados in Long Beach, mud slides in LA...snow in Big Bear.  4 FEET!!...and it's still coming hard!

My Mom sent these pics to me this morning via text(go ahead Mom, gettin' all technical and junk, proud of you!)  I have to be honest, I would MUCH rather be on my board in fresh powder right now than in rainy LA.  Can I get an amen?

I love British humor and, coincidentally, one of our British A-Listers just showed me some great commercials from a British phone company called, Phones 4 U.  I'm not sure the humor in these is uniquely British, but since it came from them, I'll go ahead and chalk this up to the UK.  Gee, think I can cram the word British into this posting a few more times?  Nah... 

How many times do you think they shot this one?...

British.

Think the coolest guy in the world has a girlfriend?

This shirt was designed in collaboration with Wyclef Jean's organization, Yele Haiti.  When you go to purchase the shirt, you'll notice two prices, one for $30 and one "A-List Price" for $20.  On a $20 shirt, $12 will go directly toward Yele Haiti's relief efforts, and on a $30 shirt, $22 will be donated.  It's up to you how much you want to donate, so if you can't afford to pay $30, then click here to sign up on the A-List, log in, and then you will pay $20.

Time is of the essence for the people in Haiti, so use whatever influence you have to get people involved in whatever way possible, and whether it's with this shirt or by another means, HELP HAITI!

Or text "YELE" to 501501 to donate $5 directly to Yele Haiti.