{"id":406458,"date":"2010-03-08T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5488597"},"modified":"2010-03-08T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:40:00","slug":"this-is-how-to-turn-a-jay-z-song-into-a-geek-anthem-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406458","title":{"rendered":"This Is How To Turn A Jay-Z Song Into A Geek Anthem [Humor]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: exmwSxv7XJI --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/exmwSxv7XJI&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: exmwSxv7XJI -->Some think of &#8220;The <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #newdork\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/newdork\/\">New Dork<\/a>&#8221; as the &#8220;ultimate geek\/dork\/tech-junkie&#8217;s anthem.&#8221; I think of it as one of the more amusing parodies of Jay-Z &#038; Alicia Keys&#8217; &#8220;Empire State of Mind&#8221; and love the geeky shout outs crammed into it.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does it have references to TechCrunch, Mashable, Valleywag, Geekologie&mdash;and yes, Gizmodo&mdash;but this video also appears to have scenes that were filmed in the <i>Wired<\/i> building. Yeah, that&#8217;s pretty dorky.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to sing or rap along, here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m in the blogosphere,<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m in the twitterverse<br \/>\nFans get so immersed, But I&#8217;m a nerd forever<br \/>\nI&#8217;m the new Zuckerberg, And since my website<br \/>\nI been cookin dough like a chef servin killa-bytes<br \/>\nUsed to be the basement, Back at my mom&#8217;s place<br \/>\nBuildin web traffic so that we could sell an ad space<br \/>\nMake way for the, One man businesses<br \/>\nBail outs finished with, White collar criminals<br \/>\nNew sega genesis, Entrepreneur time<br \/>\nMakin big plans, To dominate the online<br \/>\nYeah, I&#8217;m on YouTube, this is one man<br \/>\nSharin&#8217; google revenue, With songs on my webcam<br \/>\nScience is the new art, Databases day to day<br \/>\nGeeks spreadin&#8217; sheet smarts, Hustle, make the data pay<br \/>\nI could be in Valleywag plus Geekologie<br \/>\nTell from my avatar, That I&#8217;m most definitely<\/p>\n<p>The New Dork,<br \/>\nSocial networks &#8211; what dreams are made of,<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s nothing you can&#8217;t do<br \/>\nNow you&#8217;re the New Dork<br \/>\nThis V.C. money is brand new, The geek is now damn cool<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s hear it for new dorks, new dorks, new dorks<\/p>\n<p>Catch me up in Techcrunch, Right on the homepage<br \/>\nHell, I&#8217;m on Gizmodo, In a photo bout a phone craze<br \/>\nAnd Im up in Mashable, weekend trip to New York<br \/>\nBar pitty, 1oak, parties full of New Dorks<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m pitchin business plans, From the backs of napkans<br \/>\nMicro-lend to Africans, Monetize Kazakastan<br \/>\nCatch me up on linked-in, Dog, C.E.O.<br \/>\nYou can see where I be, With the I.P.O.<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m up in skinny jeans, Now a hipster&#8217;s lurkin&#8217;<br \/>\nUsed to be a reject, But now I&#8217;m steady jerkin&#8217;<br \/>\nNow my glasses mainstream, Now the girlies eyein me<br \/>\nPopular kids copy me, The new swag is irony<br \/>\nComin&#8217; from the small time, Girls couldn&#8217;t find me<br \/>\nNow I scale models, Like I climb on top of Heidi<br \/>\nStart big trends, with tweets that I pass on<br \/>\nYou should follow me, cuz I&#8217;m friends with Ashton<\/p>\n<p>CHORUS<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, and if you like this video, then you might want to keep in mind that the folks behind it are who brought us the somewhat awkward <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5435753\/this-is-what-happens-when-apple-fanboys-start-rapping-nsfw\">&#8220;I&#8217;m on a Mac&#8221; parody<\/a> and the somewhat awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/272501\/mac-or-pc-the-rap\">Mac or PC rap<\/a>. 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Not only does it have references to TechCrunch, Mashable, Valleywag, Geekologie&mdash;and yes, Gizmodo&mdash;but this video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}