'The Life Of An Intern': Crispin Porter Interns Cut Rap Song (VIDEO)

The life of an intern is notoriously hard, even at one of the hippest ad shops in the world. AdFreak points to a new original rap video from the unappreciated minions at Crispin Porter + Bogusky.

The Boulder, Colorado-based Crispin Porter has done some critically acclaimed ad work that helped reinvigorate brands like Burger King and Miller Lite. Last year, they won a lucrative account with Microsoft and launched the "I'm a PC" ads that targeted Apple.

The folks at Crispin Porter have some talented interns. To wit, the video is filled with lyrical gems like: "Yeah, I made coffee, and my boss knows I been burned. But my boss doesn't care. He loves it when I'm injured."

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[DarcyP]

01:55 PM on 08/07/2009

I have worked in the advertising industry for over 20 years and think this video is hilarious. These interns look as though they are having fun. It's not easy being an intern - I've worked with interns for 15 years now and they are kids trying to learn which is not an easy thing to do in a big, busy agency where no one really has any time for you.

Kudos to these kids for trying to be creative and have fun. Who cares if it's not "politically correct"!! Light up folks and have some fun.

[guruone1]

07:25 PM on 08/06/2009

this video is not good. i'm sorry--i would never ever put that in my portfolio if i was trying to get a job.

i think this is a funny rebuttal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_E5j_d8h9k

[cloudmaker]

07:17 PM on 08/05/2009

You'd think a "crearive" agency would have some skill at English. The word is tentacles not
tennacles.

[Brian Laesch]

06:52 PM on 08/05/2009

These kids are lucky that the Huffington Post put this up.

[TMACK3000]

02:58 PM on 08/05/2009

There's a bunch of haters writing here, but I thought it was great. I noticed a lot 305 representation, which leads to believe this was filmed in Miami, my hometown.

So from one intern to another, Good Work!

[Sidecut]

02:00 PM on 08/05/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m71sCExdzTs

[EvasDaddy]

01:47 PM on 08/05/2009

FAIL

[mybookface]

12:54 PM on 08/05/2009

The disconnect between the problems facing mainstreet and Washington keep widening. For the past 6 month's we're nothign but talk of regulation, but zero action. What a joke.
good articles... http://www.iamned.com

[heavydrop]

12:49 PM on 08/05/2009

Not bad. Now say it in 4 words

[scumfrog]

11:20 AM on 08/05/2009

Great idea! Let's copy Adam Sandberg! Too bad it's four years too late, and less funny.

[STUPIDgit]

03:18 PM on 08/05/2009

Or Dynamite Hack, or Weird Al, or Flight of the Concords...

The whole "white & nerdy" rap video thing is about as out-dated as Vanilla Ice.

[Pimpinnati]

10:22 AM on 08/05/2009

I expected it to be funnier for some reason.

[paganmist]

10:20 AM on 08/05/2009

Hahaha, wow, this is awesome. I didn't intern for an ad agency. I interned in the communications department of an insurance company. I was only one of two multimedia interns, and the other was too boring to do something like this with me.

So at the end of the day, 34 interns did PowerPoint presentations.

1 intern - me - did a flash presentation, including a Jurassic Park moment wherein I interacted with a video me. I was the only person hired on directly after my internship.

By the way, I'm not a trust fund baby. My mom was a welfare mom. I've got student loans and such. Getting an internship doesn't somehow mean that you're a trust fund baby, it means you've applied for it, you've got good grades and skills, and you were lucky enough to get selected out of the thousands that are competing for the position.

Anyhow, kudos for a great end of summer presentation. This is really creative (seriously, it could've been a power-point presentation -_-) and I wish the best of luck to these kids.

[tomkaye]

09:12 AM on 08/05/2009

White kids rapping poorly is always hilarious!

More grannies next time and it will be pure comedy gold.

[wonkguy]

12:11 PM on 08/05/2009

I was interested in the fact that out of 38 interns it looked like their were possibly 3 black people in the "rap" video and one of them was 50 Cent, and he didn't rap. That helps explain the lack of diversity in media and entertainment in my mind. Nothing against the interns, I guess if Crispin + Porter can find enough white kids to badly rip off other cultural experiences it works for their business model.

[Fotios]

02:11 PM on 08/05/2009

Go to Boulder, Colorado and then comment on having more black people working there. Or I can save you the trouble and point out that there aren't too many black people in Colorado. (1.22% according to the Census)

[Brian Laesch]

07:03 PM on 08/05/2009

Yeah, arguments like yours are silly. I used to work at an alternative radio station in Phoenix. We once had a contest where 8 (or so) people had to live in cars, in the food court of a mall, for days. The last one standing won a car.

On day one, we had an extremely upset African-American male come by, lambasting us for having no African-Americans in the contest. It was ridiculous.

First of all, listeners called in and left voice messages to enter. The best were picked. We didn't have a large African-American listening base to begin with, and the producers surely didn't base their decisions on race, since they only heard the contestants voices (at least, initially). No African-Americans made the contest (or entered to my knowledge), but the contestants were not all "white" either.

So where this angry gentleman saw discrimination, there actually was none. (And I did work with some African-Americans at the station as well). And if there was discrimination, it was based on personality, not race.

Anyway, I could keep listing details, but the point is, you can make a race case about anything, but it doesn't mean you are right. You can obsess about race, but at the end of the day, you're just making excuses and holding yourself back more than anything.

[linzybel]

08:36 AM on 08/05/2009

What a waste of human energy. Why not do something useful?

[jesuswazasocialist]

08:49 AM on 08/05/2009

Too deep for you huh? Just don't get it right.
Jealous I think.

[Fotios]

02:11 PM on 08/05/2009

This is the kind of stuff you get when you have almost 40 interns at one agency - lots of wasted time.

[FloraFauna]

08:27 AM on 08/05/2009

why is this called hilarious?