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Antoine Dodson Buys His Family a House With Auto-Tune Dollars (Follow-up story)
Us Magazine ^ | 9.20.10 | Cole Stryker

Posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:37 PM PDT by tlb

Antoine Dodson exploded into our pop cultural landscape when video footage featuring his enigmatic ranting about an attempted rape surfaced on the internet. Now Antoine is buying his family a new home from the money he earned as the subject of a chart-topping viral video smash based on the incident. Auto-Tune the News's Gregory Brothers posted the song to iTunes and gave Antoine half of what they made.

He talked to Us Magazine about his new fortune, and how he's spending it wisely.

"We found a house!" he tells Us, adding that he is so "excited ... It's for my whole family. And these are new houses that have just been built."

Dodson plans to go to school to get his associate's degree in business and one day open a salon or hotel.

"I still can't believe this," he tells Us of his sudden fame. "Even though my life is moving forward, it's at a standstill in my mind. I'm like, 'Wow! All of this is happening just off a news interview!'"

Here's the now legendary video, which has garnered OVER 23 MILLION VIEWS. You can buy it on iTunes, confident that $0.63 will go directly towards Antoine's hotelier dreams.


TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antoine; home; huntsville; napl; viral; youaresodumb
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I posted the original story in July,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2561778/posts about his calling out the guy who tried to rape his sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520

and I wondered what became of him. I'm glad he's doing well.

The 11 Best 'Bed Intruder' Remix Covers! http://www.urlesque.com/2010/08/13/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder-remix-covers/

1 posted on 09/23/2010 8:30:43 PM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb; Mr. K; RushIsMyTeddyBear; Slings and Arrows

>>> OMG....! That guys needs his own TV show

He’s done almost as well.

>>> The vid seems to be going viral.

And you called it.


2 posted on 09/23/2010 8:38:46 PM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

YOUR LINKS ALL RESOLVE TO THIS PAGE


3 posted on 09/23/2010 8:41:11 PM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona)
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To: tlb; Mr. K; RushIsMyTeddyBear; Slings and Arrows

Someone sent me a link to youtube and a college marching band is doing “Bed Intruder.”


4 posted on 09/23/2010 8:41:32 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl
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To: tlb

Love it!


5 posted on 09/23/2010 8:44:19 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: montag813

Thanks, that’s twice today that’s happened to me. Not sure whats going on. Working links I hope.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2561778/posts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzNhaLUT520

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/08/13/antoine-dodson-bed-intruder-remix-covers/


6 posted on 09/23/2010 8:52:51 PM PDT by tlb
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To: Bodleian_Girl

My husband and I just watched that. We are CRYING! Partly out of laughter, partly because this has become such a crazily positive American story and partly out of sheer amazement over how epic they made that song sound! It’s the Ghetto National Anthem!


7 posted on 09/23/2010 8:57:27 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: tlb

Dodson is the luckiest man alive.

The Gregory Brothers (and wife Sarah), are the real talent behind his phenomenon, as well as this one:

They created this irrestible pop confection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX0D4oZwCsA

from this nut’s rant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

We’ll be hearing from the Gregory Brothers.


8 posted on 09/23/2010 9:00:33 PM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: To Hell With Poverty

There’s something almost lyrical about Antoine’s passionate “outburst.” I think a lot of odes and ballads started in a similar way—just common, ordinary speech set to music and embedded in the national consciousness.


9 posted on 09/23/2010 9:09:43 PM PDT by 1951Boomer
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To: 1951Boomer

Or poems set to drinking songs... ;)


10 posted on 09/23/2010 9:21:54 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: tlb; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
Smiley - ROFL


11 posted on 09/23/2010 10:59:06 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: tlb

My favorite cover of this song is from a very talented young violinist Eric Stanley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nDfXyyWfkI


12 posted on 09/24/2010 12:42:00 AM PDT by Waryone (RINOs, Elites, and Socialists - on the endangered list, soon to become extinct.)
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To: Waryone

Very nice! Reminds me of the late Noel Pointer.


13 posted on 09/24/2010 12:45:05 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: Slings and Arrows
Who? What? </rhetorical>
14 posted on 09/24/2010 5:17:09 AM PDT by TheOldLady (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: windcliff

ping


15 posted on 09/24/2010 6:48:55 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: tlb

He’s climbin’ yo windows
He’s snatchin yo’ people up

I really hope he makes something good happen out of this for himself and his family.

}:-)4


16 posted on 09/24/2010 7:29:22 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: stylecouncilor

All right!!


17 posted on 09/24/2010 7:30:31 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: tlb

Great Stuff, Thanks!

I remember this guy from a few months back.
Fate is a strange thing indeed....

The Marching band is really good.
On to watch the rest...


18 posted on 09/24/2010 9:25:33 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: tlb

I wonder if they ever caught the attemted rapist.


19 posted on 09/24/2010 10:10:18 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: EyeGuy

That double rainbow guy has to be the funniest thing iv’e heard in months.
LOL

That guy must of been tripping on acid or something.


20 posted on 09/24/2010 11:06:30 AM PDT by mowowie
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