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uploads/alYankovic-11.23.2006.jpgNovember 23, 2006
Weird Al Yankovic Rap Parody
The best song parodist of the MTV era weird al Yankovic raps his way back with his 2006 album Straight Outta Lynwood carrying the single "White & Nerdy."

"White & Nerdy" is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood, which was released on September 26, 2006.

White and dirty weird al Yankovic parodies the song "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. The song both laments and revels in nerdiness.

The lyrics as rapped by the foremost parodist talks about himself unable to roll with the gangstas because he is ?"just too white and nerdy.? It includes constant references to stereotypically nerdy things, such as editing Wikipedia and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Enjoying weird al Yankovic nerdy, Chamillionaire himself put the parody up his official MySpace page commenting that he was pleasantly surprised by Weird Al?s rapping abilities, praising him by saying "He's actually rapping pretty good on it, it's crazy ... I didn't know he could rap like that".

The single was leaked onto the Internet on August 27, 2006, almost one month before the record's release date. It is currently streaming on Chamillionaire's MySpace page and Yankovic's own MySpace page and at where can i download weird al yankovic music tracks websites.

The song has become Yankovic's first career Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, its peak being at #9 and besting his previous #12 peak for 1984's "Eat It", as well as his first Top 40 single since 1992's "Smells Like Nirvana".

It debuted on the Hot Digital Songs chart at #10. It also has reached #2 at the U.S. iTunes Store, and peaked at #1 on VH1's top 20 video countdown.

His latest three album releases feature the longest songs Yankovic has ever released. The "Albuquerque" track from Running with Scissors is 11 minutes and 23 seconds; "Genius in France" from Poodle Hat runs for 8 minutes and 56 seconds; "Trapped in the Drive Thru" from Straight Outta Lynwood is 10 minutes and 53 seconds long.

To date, these "epic" songs have never been played live because of their length and complexity, except one performance of weird al Yankovic running with Scizorzs Albercurky, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Listen to weird al Yankovic music, who carried the torch of musical humor more proudly and more successfully than any performer since Allan Sherman.

In the world of novelty records -- a genre noted for its extensive back catalog of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders -- Yankovic was king, scoring smash after smash over the course of an enduring career which found him topically mocking everything from new wave to gangsta rap.

Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born October 23, 1959, in Lynwood, California. An only child, he began playing the accordion at age seven, following in the tradition of polka star Frank Yankovic.

In his early teens weird al Yankovic riding dirty became an avid fan of the Dr. Demento show, drawing inspiration from the parodies of Allan Sherman as well as the musical comedy of Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, and Stan Freberg.

When he was 13 years old, he passed a demo tape of home recordings to Demento and three years later, Demento played Yankovic's "Belvedere Cruising" -- an accordion-driven pop song written about the family's Plymouth -- on the air, and his career was launched.

Yankovic quickly emerged as a staple of the Demento play list, recording a prodigious amount of tongue-in-cheek material throughout his high-school career.

After graduation, he studied architecture; while attending California Polytechnic State University, he also joined the staff of the campus radio station, first adopting the nickname "Weird Al" and spinning a mixture of novelty and new wave hits.

In 1979, the success of the Knack's monster hit "My Sharona" inspired Yankovic to record a parody dubbed "My Bologna"; not only was the song a smash with Demento fans, but it even found favor with the Knack themselves, who convinced their label, Capitol, to issue the satire as a single.

After which weird al Yankovic mp3s flooded the music world such as the parody on Michael Jackson?s ?Beat It? weird al Yankovic music eat it.

Weird al Yankovic parody mp3 success resulted from his skilled use of music video, a medium not available in the era of Spike Jones or Allan Sherman; suddenly, not only could records themselves serve as parody fodder, but their video clips were ripe for satire as well.



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