"Weird Al" Does T.I.: How It Came To Be [On The Blogs]

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"Weird Al" Does T.I.: How It Came To Be [On The Blogs]

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"Weird Al" Yankovic takes to his blog and offers up the inside scoop on his rush-recorded parody of the country's No. 1 song that arrives at the iTunes Store tomorrow: "Actually, the name of my song is ALSO 'Whatever You Like.' For you history buffs, I believe this is the first time that my ...

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Weird Al Yankovic: Weird Al to cover T.I. on rush-released single
Prefix — ... a certain amount of secrecy around my projects for obvious reasons and this time, as far as I can tell, the only person leaking information to the Internet has been ME!"Sheesh Al. Like the exclamation point do you? I m guessing the song is about computers and Dungeons and Dragons. Al promised the song would be on iTunes today, but as of 11 a.m. it is still MIA. And the part of Al s MySpace that should have the song is down for maintenance right now, so there s no help there either. [ Idolator ]

How do you like Weird Al's 'Whatever You Like'?
PopWatch — ... as the first time he's ever released a parody while its target was still No. 1 on the charts ( h/t ). This may or may not be technically true, since T.I.'s " ...

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