1-900…
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I fast-forwarded this video at first until I saw a Compton hat or two flashing on screen. I totally forgot about the 1-900 craze this country went through in the early 90’s. I saw an interview recently with a few old school artists and they said that they never saw a dime of the money made for these phone lines. DOC is a punk anyway, he never responded to my message that I left for him.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 am
D.O.C. is the illest for not returning your message
July 30th, 2008 at 6:59 am
D.O.C…. prolly busy…….
August 1st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
there were two kinds of commercials for the 1-900 numbers - ones where there was obvious artist participation (dj jazzy jeff and the fresh prince had one that they actually recorded a song for (”call our new number, i think it’s kinda def / call 1-900-909-JEFF”) and ones where it’s not even clear that the artist was aware that the product existed (like this one, where they just re-edit clips from the “it’s funky enough” video and have a cheapo voiceover where they keep calling him “the doc” and not “the d.o.c.”).