Today's most nerdcore video: Blizzard employee raps for community

by Ross Miller on Dec 28th 2007 1:36AM

What's the best approach for telling the community your patch isn't coming out this year? If you're Blizzard, you can try responding to a YouTube rant about an absent WarCraft III patch. And you can do it by trying to rap. We applaud the effort, but the "rhyming" verses make us cringe. Video embedded after the break.

[Thanks, Medievaldragon]

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Tags: blizzard, hip-hop, hottestvideo, PC, rap, warcraft, warcraft-3, warcraft-iii

Reader Comments (48)

I thougth it was settled, Nobody. Likes. Rap.

(Or, to be fair to my rap liking friends, nobody likes bad rap)

biggie was cool

but yes, bad rap is bad. go figure

well if record labels keep signing rappers then someone must like rap. its the first music genre choice for me. Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, Common, Kanye West, Nas.....you know, the good ones. people like Soulja Boy on the other hand should collectively jump off a bridge...

ugh, i can't stand any rap made in the last 8 years or so

Amen Roxxo

you forget though, all rap is bad rap

(can't spell crap without rap!)

That wasnt really rap. It was more like spoken word with a beat behind it. Rap requires rhythm, intonational changes akin to singing.

Also, some rap is great, some not. Just like rock, internet blog commenters and things in general. I think you are being unreasonably categorical.

@ Korova

And you can't spell crock without rock or pop without pope, whats your point? Way to generalize though.

As for this video, very creative. Even if it's not the best rap i've ever heard, it's great seeing devs with sense of humors and there needs to be more communication with developers and the fans and this is a great showing for Blizzard even though I don't play any of their games, good on them!

Ooh sorry about that, my comment was towards fesh not Korova. My apologies Korova.

"intonational changes akin to singing."
Yes, however singing requires something which is absent in rap aside from the odd chorus; pitch variation. And when i say "the odd chorus" i mean that, on average, a chorus in a rap song is usually amongst the most simple melody ever produced by mankind. Besides, for music that's all about the words they're hardly expressing the depths of human emotion, are they?

I don't know why people bother to argue over musical tastes, it's not as if you're gonna sway someone who likes rock to like rap, the only way to do that is to make them listen (without applying their prior judgements and opinions) then see if they like it.

Oh and bad song choice, even the original was crap as far as I'm concered. Oh and rap (and crunk) ftw!

The shit that Viacom and local radio stations put down your ear-throat everyday is garbage. If you want better hip-hop or rap, look for it. If you don't like it, don't cry about it.

*these painkillers are kicking in*

sigh, that's sad.

Wait, somebody just said Kanye West is good. What the fuck?

omg. this guy is absolutely terrible lol. glad this was just a joke lol.

i guess my question is.....why is he wasting time writing rhymes when he could be working on the patch?

Because it is vacation break. Most of Blizzard are off from December 26-January 1.

Man this is going to be my most immature response ever so forgive me. AHEM.....

Man I would like to drop my patch on his girl! Yup she can get my hot fix!

Yes I am ashamed for that but it had to be said. That woman is who is keeping that patch back I tell you that right now!

Beautiful girlfriend.

her rhythm is crap though. i suppose of you just tune her out its not so bad, its not so bad...

Agreed!

yes!! http://www.increible.mactanque.com

gtfo

GFW Radio's version is 1000 times better than this trash. Nice try but failing is still failing.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9tztgldzrv1

So Blizzard's customer support reps are now responding on YouTube videos? If only the developers had that much spare time!

LOL What was the point?!

kojima raps better than that retarded idiot.

What.

oh!
yeah i would get my Patch on her CRACK
anyday.
uh"
shitcome to new zealand where
20% of our largest city is korean"! maaaaan deeez streets is seething
]

That was Karune, the community manager for Blizzard. As far as I know he doesn't work directly on patches, but instead functions as the liaison between the players and developers. He's also very active in SC2 forums, and communicating updates to the fans.

Also that isn't his girlfriend. Her name is Lina So (http://myspace.com/linaso), and she's married to some dweeb linked off her myspace. Beautiful woman, however!!

gtfo

Slow news day?... seems to be happening quite a bit during the holiday season...

Slow commenting day?

All slow news days are slow commenting days.

Winter break leaves me bored with little to do...

Uhhh I think they should do themselves a favor and go back to youtube and click PRIVATE only on that video. I had that feeling watching that video where you feel uncomfortable for the person in it. Like thay should be ashamed which they should.

Sometimes I cut myself to see how much I bleed
Today is one of those days thanks to this video feed

I'm a poet and didn't even know it.

What a bunch of humourless fucks you lot are.

the name of that hot girl in the blizzard representative vid :
http://www.gamingnewslink.com/2007/12/28/blizzard-community-manager-responds-to-an-angry-fan-video-with-a-video-of-his-own-a-hot-girl/

What the fuck is going on with the comments???

goddammit.

JOYSTIQ FIX YOUR COMMENTS THINGY!!!

This rap was weak at best, and lame at worst.

Come on, I could write a better one in less than 5 minutes.

wc3:dota

i got your defense livin' in fear,
this undead picked the venomancer so stand clear.
i hit you with my plague spear, then the decompose,
got you leakin like cum drippin outta these hoes! oh no

your hero can't even come near my carrion swarm,
i sent a hoard of bats leavin you shattered n torn.
be warned i perform like a teacher at academics,
get schooled fool i just learned the epidemic.

im nemesis, undead supremesist got you screamin "healer!
luna come back and lucent beam this deathbringer!"
your ring of regeneration looks like decoration,
my combination of attacks is strictly devastation.

rofl. burn now!!

A blizz employee actually communicates with the users and puts a little humor into it and all you jackasses are whining about the song choice or that he doesn't sing/rap well. Grow the fuck up it was just a joke, you people take everything way to serious. Well that and most people who comment on here just get off by making themselves feel more important by trying to point out every little mistake in every post, or just mindlessly bashing things such as this. Get a fuckin life.

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Umm, what kind of moron thinks this is rap?

All I hear is a parody/re-work of a Dido song, with a voice-over in between from the guy the song is about. I guess talking is rapping, in the sense that Bill Cosby says to his song "Hey, Theo! Sit down with me for a sec, we gotta rap about how you're doing in school." E.g., talking. So, if writing new words to a pop song and adding a spoken word part is rap, perhaps we can call any shitty music that uses instruments punk, alt *and* indie rock?

Nor is this hip-hop.

Rap music involves rapping. Way too many people seem to think that rap, rock, punk, and pop music involves a catchy loop with people talking over it. What distinguishes one from the other in their minds is beyond me.

That video was awesome, great parody of "Stan" by Eminem.

Hehe that video rocks, here are the videos that he was responding too:

http://www.starfeeder.com/blog/archives/karune_sings_and_his_girl_is_hot/

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