And that’s where people like Tay Zonday, whose real name is Adam Nyerere Bahner, came in. While at the time of his rise to stardom there had already been song-based memes like Rickrolling, there ...

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Today's B3ta Newsletter mentioned "Chocolate Rain" by way of flogging a parody version. Fearing that we'd missed something so awesome it had already spawned parodies, we went straight to YouTube for ...

And the winner for best music video: "Chocolate Rain." Tay Zonday morphed from an unknown musician to an Internet superstar who got booked on national TV shows after his song "Chocolate Rain" -; an ...