Even rockers and rappers grow up and have kids. Two Berkeley High alums, both musicians, have collaborated on a music video that, while being upbeat and funny, also makes a candid stab at exploring the peculiar transition that happens when you segue from carefree youth into parenthood. DJ Dave, aka David Wittman, will be known […]
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Rapper’s Berkeley bona fides questioned in new video
DJ Dave, aka Dave Wittman, has all the Berkeley bona fides: he played at Adventure Playground as a kid, loves the Edible Schoolyard, and graduated from Berkeley High in 1992. But after living in Los Angeles for 20 years, can he really still claim he is from Berkeley? The question is even more relevant after […]
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Berkeley-raised rapper goes commercial with Hyundai
David Wittman, aka DJ Dave, had a viral hit in June with his rap about the Whole Foods parking lot (although many Berkeleyans preferred the localized version by Lae Charles). Innocean, the ad agency for Korean car manufacturer Hyundai seems to have taken note, because Wittman and his creative collective, Fog and Smog, are the […]
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Has the Edible Schoolyard been in a rap song before?
Look what the dueling Whole Foods parking lot videos has spawned. The original, by Berkeley-raised David Wittman, aka DJDave (now in LA), inspired local LaeCharles’ Berkeley remix. (It also prompted Berkeley-born Delia Brown to make “Revenge of the Black Prius“). Now, in fine style, DJDave has come back with DJDave, U Not BERKELEY Enough, featuring LaeCharles. […]
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Local musician responds to that Whole Foods music video
Last month we brought you news of a Berkeley boy, now living in L.A., whose clever music video about shopping at Whole Foods went viral — our story about “getting real in the Whole Foods parking lot” garnered 400 Facebook Likes alone and the video itself has notched up more than 2.3 million views on […]
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Berkeley boy gets real in the Whole Foods parking lot
He’s a Berkeley High School alum (class of ’92), his fiancée also attended BHS, and his parents live in Berkeley. He drives a Prius and likes quinoa — and now a music video created by David Wittman, which has some fun at the expense of Whole Food-shopping healthfood nuts (like him), is going viral. In an interview […]
