...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...
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.
