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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Artist Travie McCoy Has A Billionaire Year

Musician Travie McCoy performs at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif. (AP)

Musician Travie McCoy performs at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif. (AP)

We continue our series of favorite musical conversations by revisiting our recent talk with Travie McCoy. His song, “Billionaire” was all over the airwaves this past summer and he’s scheduled to perform on Fox’s New Year’s show.

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  • Mike W.

    I can’t stand the song…at all. It’s not suited for the current economic feeling around the country. No matter how you paint the pig, saying the song is posing a question to the people asking what they’d do with such a vast amount of money, it’s still a money-obsessed pig. You can sing about such topics because you’re at least a millionaire, unlike many others who listen to this garbage. I wish they’d take your song off the air so figgin’ bad.

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