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Average Homeboy
''Average Homeboy'' (a.k.a. 'Denny Blaze', 'Denny Blazin Hazen') is the creation and alter ego of Cleveland-based AV artist Denny Hazen. Hazen (as 'Blazin Hazen', a self-proclaimed 'Suburban White Rapper') was the subject of a 1989 demo tape that mysteriously appeared on YouTube in 2005, and achieved viral video status in a relatively short time, largely for its notoriety as a poster child of 1980s kitsch. ''Average Homeboy'' polarized viewers and critics, who were divided between praising the inherent entertainment value of a sincere, clean-cut teenager in 1980s attire attempting to rap, and denouncing the excesses of the era, absurdity of the rap, and ineptitude of its star, yet it garnered the attention of several prominent news & infotainment entities, including ''TIME'' and ''VH1'',〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/137829/denny-blaze-the-average-homeboy.jhtml#id=1554283 )〕 as well as men's culture magazine ''Complex'', who, in a 2011 article, included it in its list of the '100 Best Viral Videos of the 2000s'.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.complex.com/tech/2011/12/the-100-best-viral-videos-of-the-2000s/denny-blaze-the-average-homeboy )〕
==Background==
In 1989, Hazen, with the aid of self-purchased synthesizers and AV equipment, recorded, filmed, and edited ''Average Homeboy'' (where, as 'Blazin Hazen', he rapped about life as a clean-cut suburbanite who didn't fit urban stereotypes), then sent a VHS copy to MTV, who reportedly shelved it in the same storage area as the thousands of other self-submitted recordings they had received, over the years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/2006-05-10/propped-average-homeboy/ )〕 In 2005, the video was uploaded to YouTube by 'K-Maxx' (who claimed to be an MTV employee), and as its popularity skyrocketed, it came to the attention of Hazen (who, by then, was in his mid-thirties, and successfully employed in behind-the-scenes radio and television production in the Cleveland/Akron area).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.rightthisminute.com/video/average-homeboy-back-action-new-documentary )〕 Hazen reclaimed his property, and ultimately embraced his new-found fame, reuploading ''Average Homeboy'' to YouTube in 2006, along with other earlier efforts (including ''Blazin Hazen'', a video he submitted to MTV months prior to ''Average Homeboy'', and ''Like a Seagull''), and brand new ones (including ''White as Rice'', ''Black Men Can't Swim'', and a remixed version of ''Average Homeboy''), and continues to produce and record as 'Denny Blaze' to this day.
Hazen's popularity, as 'Blaze', 〔http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2007/03/158614/1?loc=interstitialskip#.UyschI5Lq5S Whitney Matheson. USAToday.com. March 20, 2007〕 grew to where he received (and continues to receive) numerous invitations to attend music and internet culture-related venues and gatherings across the country, including the NY Music Festival at Madison Square Garden in 2006, ROFLCon 2008 (an internet meme convention in Cambridge, MA, where he appeared with other live musical acts of similar origin, including Group X, Leslie Hall, Lemon Demon, and Trocadero), 〔http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89990930〕〔(The Phoenix > Live Reviews > LOL in the family )〕 and West Hollywood's Whisky A Go Go.〔http://kroq.cbslocal.com/2012/01/13/denny-blaze-the-average-homeboy-himself-joins-kevin-bean/ Kevin and Bean Show. KROQ RADIO. January 13, 2012.〕 He has also been a fixture on various internet culture programs, both on television and online, including ''CollegeHumor'', G4 TV's ''Attack Of The Show'',〔http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/videos/21521/ROFLCon.html April 29, 2008.〕 and ''Tosh.0'' (as the subject of one of Daniel Tosh's 'Web Redemptions').〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://tosh.comedycentral.com/blog/2010/02/10/web-redemption-the-average-homeboy )〕
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