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Last summer, Louise asked me one night in the middle of a July week to write and record a rap song about 350.  After a little pestering, I complied.  I wrote, recorded, and edited the rap all together in about three hours that night.  I uploaded it, tweeted about it, and pretty soon 350 caught wind of it.

All along, I said, “This is just a demo. I’m going to re-record it with a real band. I’m going to make a music video.”  Ok, so life caught up to me (hey, I moved to from the US to Germany and started a master’s program over here…) and I just got around to the music video part after skipping the “working with good musicians” bit. After missing the October 24th Day of Action as a video premiere date, I wanted to be sure to get it out before Copenhagen.  So without further ado, the 350 Rap music video (which premiered yesterday on N30):

Dot .- (read aloud: “dot dot dash”) is my rapper moniker. Right. I don’t think I need to write anything more to explain the title of this post.

Oh, and if you like my work (heh), please consider donating $10 or $24 to my Copenhagen Fund.  My expenses ($130 train, $500 hostel, $$$ food, etc.) are adding up as I’ll be serving as “video queen” for the SustainUS delegation and I am covering several hundred dollars of equipment costs for microphones and a tripod and all that good stuff myself. I look forward to providing you with high quality video updates from the negotiations, which will almost certainly involve more interviews and less rap (but hopefully a lil bit of rap makes its way in there as well), but I also hope to have enough money to eat!