![]() ![]() Dodson’s sudden Internet fame, the Huntsville television station that first put him before the public reported that some African-American viewers had called to complain that “interviews He also said that he has made “a nice amount of money,” from his various new income streams: “enough to move my family from the projects.” Dodson told ABC News this week that his sister’s attacker was still on the loose, Dodson is now selling “Hide Yo’ Kids, Hide Yo’ Wife” T-shirts on Facebook,īantering with thousands of followers day and night on Twitter, asking visitors to his Web site to donate moneyĪccount on PayPal and responding to questions from his fans on YouTube: What we’re doing on iTunes and on any other sales, we’re splitting the revenue after it gets throughįor his part, less than three weeks after the original report was broadcast, between media interviews, Mr. ![]() It’s like you said: He wrote the lyrics, he’s the one who put it out there. We’re really breaking ‘unintentional singing’ ground, so we’re trying to set precedents by making it so that Antoine, or whoever that artist might be in the future, has a stake not only as an artist but as a co-author of the Of the revenue from the sale of anything we do, 50-50.” His brother, Michael, added: In an interview with Wired about their hit, Evan Gregory said, “Antoine is participating in all ![]() Dodson, is sharing in all the profits from the auto-tuned version and hopes that his new fame could be a route out of the What distinguishes this surprise hit from other viral videos is that its accidental star, Mr. That song, in turn, has now spawned dozens of covers and remixes on YouTube, including this one, performed by a North Carolina A&T Dodson’s rant as “The Bed Intruder Song,” which has now been seen more than 10 million times on YouTube and reached No. To rape ’em, so you all need to hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husband ’cause they’re raping everybody out here” - racked up millions of views and attracted theĪttention of the Gregory Brothers, who transform news clips into songs for their popular “ Auto-Tune the News” series. Dodson’s warnings to Huntsville residents - “Well, obviously we have a rapist in Lincoln Park he’s climbing in your windows, he’s snatching your people up, trying Within hours a viral video franchise was born when a copy of that report, about the intruder found in Kelly Dodson’s bed, and her brother Antoine’s reaction, was posted on YouTube and quickly shot up the Managed to be both deeply angry and oddly compelling. But then the victim’s brother stepped before the camera and delivered a lecture to the stranger who had tried to attack his sister one night last month in Huntsville, Ala., that somehow It began with unlikely fodder for music, comedy or pop culture stardom: a local news report about an attempted rape. ![]()
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