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Krispy Kreme uploaded the music video "The Baddest" on April 20, 2012, which quickly [[viral video|went viral]]. The video was featured on several websites such as [[The Huffington Post]], and others.<ref name="HuffPost1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyc.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/krispy-kreme-is-the-baddest/|title=Krispy Kreme Is THE BADDEST|work=Barstool Sports NYC|date=May 1, 2012|accessdate=June 18, 2012}}</ref>
Krispy Kreme uploaded the music video "The Baddest" on April 20, 2012, which quickly [[viral video|went viral]]. The video was featured on several websites such as [[The Huffington Post]], and others.<ref name="HuffPost1"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nyc.barstoolsports.com/random-thoughts/krispy-kreme-is-the-baddest/|title=Krispy Kreme Is THE BADDEST|work=Barstool Sports NYC|date=May 1, 2012|accessdate=June 18, 2012}}</ref> The video for "The Baddest" had a huge spike in views after [[Ray William Johnson]] featured the video on an episode of ''[[Ray_William_Johnson#Equals_Three_.282008.E2.80.93present.29|=3]]'' on May 8, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|author=Ray William Johnson|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdqMZWdHcts|title=MEOW DIED :( - Ray William Johnson|publisher=YouTube|date=May 8, 2012|accessdate=September 26, 2012}}</ref> Later on May 18, 2012 [[Andy Milonakis]] reviewed the follow-up single, "Haters Wanna Be Me", on ''=3'' during Johnson's temporary absence from the show.<ref>{{cite web|author=Andy Milonakis|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO9QK4Ry_RU&feature=channel&list=UL|title=DRUNK CHICK PROOF - Andy Milonakis Video|publisher=YouTube|date=May 18, 2012|accessdate=September 26, 2012}}</ref>


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Froggy Fresh
Also known asKrispy Kreme, Krispy, Froggy
Born1990 or 1991 (age 32–33) [1]
GenresHip hop, gangsta rap, underground hip hop
Occupation(s)Rapper

Froggy Fresh (formerly known as Krispy Kreme) is an American rapper who became known after uploading "The Baddest", a rap music video on YouTube[2] that has currently garnered over 11 million views.[3] "The Baddest", along with subsequent music videos, feature Froggy Fresh, a "Southern speaking" rapper. Froggy Fresh has over 300,000 subscribers and 42 million video views on YouTube as of March 9, 2013.

In January 2013, Froggy Fresh released his debut album, Money Maker (Reloaded) on iTunes. He also announced he was going to release the music videos for the three previously unreleased songs from the album, "ER", "Mike's Mom", and "Same Old Kid". While he has not explicitly revealed his identity,[4] his songs are registered in the ISWC database with "Tyler Cassidy" as the composer.[5] His album, Money Maker (Reloaded), also lists Tyler S. Cassidy as the composer.

Career

Krispy Kreme Era

The Baddest

Main article: The Baddest
External videos
video icon Froggy Fresh's "The Baddest" video

Krispy Kreme uploaded the music video "The Baddest" on April 20, 2012, which quickly went viral. The video was featured on several websites such as The Huffington Post, and others.[2][6] The video for "The Baddest" had a huge spike in views after Ray William Johnson featured the video on an episode of =3 on May 8, 2012.[7] Later on May 18, 2012 Andy Milonakis reviewed the follow-up single, "Haters Wanna Be Me", on =3 during Johnson's temporary absence from the show.[8]

Subsequent videos

Froggy Fresh would go on to release subsequent videos, all of which would become viral, and be featured on several websites such as College Humor.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

On May 14, 2012 Krispy Kreme released his follow up single, "Haters Wanna Be Me", which, much like "The Baddest" quickly went viral.[15][16] "Haters Wanna Be Me" was ranked as the #20 best music video of 2012, so far, by Complex.[17] On May 31, 2012, Kreme released another song, "Best Friends",[18][19][20] a more serious rap than the previous two, with the lyrics focusing on his friendship with Money Maker Mike and referencing the influential rapper Tupac Shakur towards the end of the song.[21][22][23] On June 3, 2012, Kreme gave a motivational speech to his fans about chasing their dreams and openly wept throughout the video.[24][25] On June 15, 2012, Kreme released his fourth song, "Girl Work It".[26] On June 23, 2012, a new video appeared where Kreme addressed his haters.[27] Krispy Kreme uploaded a fifth song on July 6, 2012 titled "Stolen Bikes",[28][29] a song which he uploaded a preview for as well.[30] Only four days later on July 10, 2012, Krispy Kreme released a sixth single titled "Coolest Guys".[31] A seventh song, titled "The Fight", was uploaded on August 24, 2012.[32][33] Afterwards, he released a song praising actor Denzel Washington called "Denzel Washington" which was uploaded on September 14, 2012.[34] He released two songs in October: "Me and Daniel Tosh" (on October 2, 2012)[35] and "Halloween" (on October 16, 2012).[36] His eleventh song, titled "Christmas", was released on November 21, 2012.[37][38] Several of Froggy's music videos feature a recurring antagonist, James.[39]

Froggy Fresh Era

In late 2012, Froggy Fresh released his first album, Money Maker (Reloaded), which featured new songs in addition to existing ones already on his YouTube channel. The new singles were accompanied by music videos, that were posted sometime shortly after the album debuted. On January 9, 2013, the music video for "Same Old Kid", the rapper's first song under the name Froggy Fresh, was released.[40] Froggy Fresh received praise for "Same Old Kid",[41] as Barstool Sports stated "It’s one thing to outlive your 15 minutes, it’s quite another to change your name, content, and brand and still remain relevant."[42] Froggy Fresh deleted all his music videos that featured the moniker "Krispy Kreme", and later re-posted the video switching "Krispy Kreme" to "Froggy Fresh". In February 2013, a Froggy Fresh VEVO channel was opened and reports were released revealing that Froggy was signed by Bad Boy Records.[43] However, Froggy claimed that the VEVO channel was fake,[43] despite the channel's videos' thumbnails including a VEVO watermark and the channel linking to the official VEVO channel through its banner.[44] During the same month, Froggy released an announcement video that also included a freestyle.[45] The music video for "Mike's Mom" was released on March 4, 2013.[46] On May 21, Froggy Fresh released his new single, "Dunked On", which Froggy previously revealed would appear on his second album.[47][48]

Money Maker Mike

Froggy is joined by Money Maker Mike in the viral videos.[49][50] Famous rapper, Mac Miller, gave a shout out to Money Maker Mike, saying "That type of shit is cool to me because I'm like, 'Man I'm really makin' it when random big videos on YouTube, they're wearing my clothes, that's hella promotion for my clothes." The statement by Mac Miller was in response to Money Maker Mike wearing a Mac Miller t-shirt in the viral videos released by the duo.[51] Money Maker Mike has been documented wearing this shirt in all but one of the viral videos to date,[52] including "Stolen Bikes" where he is wearing it underneath his suit.

Name Change

On December 3, 2012, Froggy Fresh stated on his YouTube channel that his father received a call from the Krispy Kreme doughnut company telling him that his name was copyright infringement.[53] He also stated that he could not use any variation of the words 'Krispy' or 'Kreme' without getting involved in a legal dispute. Froggy Fresh (still "Krispy Kreme" at the time) announced that he would be changing his rap name to one of the following, depending on viewer comments: Froggy Fresh, Kandy Kane, Jelly Bean, Jelly Bean Jack, Lil Kuntry or White Chocolate.[54] On December 18, 2012, Kreme officially announced that he changed his name to Froggy Fresh.[55][56] Prior to changing his name to Froggy Fresh, the rapper was originally going to change his name to Jelly Bean Jack.[57]

Appearances in other media

On October 2, 2012, Froggy Fresh (then still using the "Krispy Kreme" moniker) was interviewed on Tosh.0 as part of the "Web Redemption" segment.[58] He also debuted a song featuring Daniel Tosh after the interview.[35] In November 2012, Krispy Kreme was featured in a Mashable article that listed fifteen people made famous by the internet.[59]

Discography

Albums:

References

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  3. ^ Nick Douglas (May 15, 2012). ""Haters Wanna Be Me": Krispy Kreme Has a New Music Video and Is Intentionally Funny". Slacktory. Retrieved Jun 7, 2012.
  4. ^ T.J. Murray (April 28, 2013). "Viral Video Watch: Froggy Fresh combines intrigue, emotion, and poor rapping to become Youtube superstar". The Celebrity Cafe. Retrieved May 27, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  5. ^ "ISWC-Net". CISAC. Search for creator ID 00687703995. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
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  8. ^ Andy Milonakis (May 18, 2012). "DRUNK CHICK PROOF - Andy Milonakis Video". YouTube. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
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  18. ^ Andrew Martin (June 1, 2012). "Video: Krispy Kreme Saves Money Maker Mike In "Best Friends"". Complex. Retrieved July 10, 2012.
  19. ^ Maura Johnston (June 1, 2012). "In Honor Of National Donut Day, The Trollgaze Index Sizes Up Krispy Kreme (The Rapper, That Is)". Village Voice. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
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  24. ^ Jason James (June 6, 2012). "This Is My Rifle: Krispy Kreme, Jason James & Big K.R.I.T., The Common Thread". Refined Hype. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
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  26. ^ Nick Douglas (June 15, 2012). ""Girl Work It": Oh Holy Shit Holy Shit, It's Another Krispy Kreme Song". Slacktory. Retrieved June 17, 2012.
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  33. ^ Nick Douglas (August 27, 2012). "New Krispy Kreme Music Video: "The Fight"". Slacktory. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  34. ^ "Denzel Washington Gets Rap Tribute By Krispy Kreme (VIDEO)". Huffington Post. September 17, 2012. Retrieved September 19, 2012.
  35. ^ a b Sam Jarvis (October 1, 2012). "Preview: Daniel Meets Krispy Kreme". Tosh.0. Comedy Central. Retrieved October 2, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  36. ^ Britt Mahaney (October 16, 2012). "KRISPY KREME RAPPER CHANNELS A NINJA TURTLE FOR HALLOWEEN". ANDPOP. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  37. ^ Britt Mahaney (November 27, 2012). "BEST WORST CHRISTMAS SONG OF THE YEAR". ANDPOP. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
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  39. ^ Greg Hunter (January 20, 2013). "Good Kid, Meme City: Froggy Fresh's Hip-Hop Bildungsroman". Big Other. Retrieved February 18, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  40. ^ "'Froggy Fresh--Same Old Kid':YouTube Rapper's Latest Video Gets Mass Approval From Redditors [VIDEO]". International Digital Times. January 9, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  41. ^ Megan Seling (January 15, 2013). "Krispy Kreme Is Now Froggy Fresh". Lineout. The Stanger. Retrieved January 17, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  43. ^ a b "Froggy Fresh Signed to Bad Boy/Interscope Records?". iRoots. February 20, 2013. Retrieved Appil 19, 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  44. ^ "Froggy Fresh VEVO". FroggyFreshVEVO. YouTube. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
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  46. ^ "Froggy Fresh 'Mike's Mom': YouTube Video Sensation Offers An Awesome New Rap". International Digital Times. March 5, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  47. ^ Dan Devine (June 5, 2013). "Froggy Fresh, Money Maker Mike, '90s Bulls-Knicks unis + lowered rims: This is 'Dunked On'". Ball Don't Lie. Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved June 8, 2013. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
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  53. ^ Chase Hoffberger (December 4, 2012). "Donut company forces rapper Krispy Kreme to find a new name". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
  54. ^ "gotta get a new rap name". Krispy Kreme. YouTube. December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
  55. ^ Froggy Fresh (December 18, 2012). "brand new name, same old kid". YouTube. Retrieved December 19, 2012.
  56. ^ Michelle Jaworski (December 19, 2012). "YouTube rapper Krispy Kreme is now Froggy Fresh". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
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  58. ^ Americ Ngwije (October 2, 2012). "TOSH.0 Web Redemption: Krispy Kreme". TV Equals. Retrieved October 2, 2012.
  59. ^ Christine Erickson (November 15, 2012). "15 People Made Famous by the Internet in 2012". Mashable. Retrieved December 4, 2012. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)

External links

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