DeKalb Police: Funkified
Decatur Metro | January 23, 2009 | 2:25 pmThis is pure genius.
Preston Craig (of the former Decatur Social Club) points us to a post on his kissatlanta blog that tells the story of an album created by rapper “ytcracker”, which was created by taking all the ridiculous wav files that used to play in the background on different pages of the DeKalb County Police website, and setting them to smart, hilarious lyrics. The really amazing thing is that yt did it all in 10 hours, according to Craig.
Since the release of the online album, DeKalb PD has recently removed all of the audio from its website. ytcracker responds…
DEPRESSING NEWS: since we have released the album and it has become a sensation overnight because of how awesome and famous we are, the ORIGINAL DCPD sites NO LONGER are hosting the banging beats that they once were. you can look in the left navbar of every page on the dekalbpolice.com website and they still have the music on/off text and the flash code for the player is still in the html source, but everything that was in their /music/ directory has been deleted. we are working on mirroring the site to restore it to it’s full glory.
You can listen to the entire profanity-free album over on Craig’s kissatlanta blog. Or better yet, download the whole thing for free here.
And Craig is right when he says that track 4 “executive_command” is the best of the bunch.
booming the ATL!! – awesome job by Preston, congrads ! The DeKalb PD website makes the whole county look bad.
The songs are awesome. LOL too. Great job ytcracker!
Love ytcracker’s sense of humor!
Magnificent. The only downside is now I can’t hear BUMP BUMP BA DUMP-A-DUMP HAAAAY! every time I want to look up the number for Code Enforcement.
I always wondered what it was doing there – is it an attempt to make the DCPD cool and hip for the Youth of Today? Is someone in the department an aspiring producer, and figured dumping his beats on the website was a sure-fire path to getting noticed? Does Terrell Bolton’s cousin have a label or something? There was never any info about the music – it was just THERE, and that’s what made it so weird.
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