TurboTax Tax Baby
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| This is NOT funky fresh as advertised |
Take a look at this minute-long rapfest for TurboTax, starring a double-washed-up Vanilla Ice. Without knowing the background of this video, I can only speculate it is an attempt at viral marketing gone wrong. The low production values and “impromptu” rapping are bad, but not so hilariously bad it would be popular in any respect.
For a lesson in how to roast a white rapper while keeping a sense of humor about it, watch this Super Bowl ad for Nationwide, featuring an up-and-coming icon of washed-upedness, Kevin Federline.
If this video of Vanilla Ice isn’t supposed to be bad on purpose, it’s bad and tedious on accident. I don’t know which is worse. Wait, yes I do. The second one. That is what is worse.
Update: Duh, I found this on YouTube but didn’t link to the channel. There it is. There is the link. END TRANSMISSION
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Comment // April 25th, 2007 // 8:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=TurboTax
Comment // April 26th, 2007 // 10:57 am
Thanks for the context, JHill, for some reason I forgot to link to the YouTube channel in the article. Apparenlty this commercial was part of a rap contest? It is too early in the morning for me to watch any more Vanilla Ice so I’ll leave it up to the readers to find out more on their own.