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‘SOUP’S’ ON FOR WEBSTAR AND YOUNG B: YouTube-spawned hit may turn Harlem anthem and dance into marketing craze.
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*Although the song has been heating up teen dance clubs in Harlem since Easter, the rest of the country is just now getting a heaping spoonful of DJ Webstar and Young B’s catchy single “Chicken Noodle Soup” ... with a soda on the side.
"I started out DJing and throwing parties in Harlem," says 19-year-old Webstar, born Troy Ryan, who produced the single rapped by 16-year-old Bianca "Young B" Dupree.
"I met Young B through my parties,” he tells Billboard. “She came home one day just messing around and singing, ‘Chicken noodle soup,’ and it sounded good. So we recorded it, and somehow it leaked out. So I just started playing it at my parties, and the kids made up the dance."
Those kids started videotaping themselves doing the dance – which involves arm-pumping and wobbling side to side – and placing the footage on YouTube.com. The postings became so popular (over 1900 different clips are featured) that Universal Records stepped to Webstar with a deal.
Last May, the DJ began spinning the record at such Harlem teen venues as Skate Key and others. The following month, “Chicken Noodle Soup” happened to be playing in the background while WQHT’s DJ Enuff was recording his radio show live from Harlem's Rucker basketball court. Seeing the crowd's visceral reaction to the song, Enuff asked Webstar for the record, reports Billboard.
"The first week we played the song, the kids came to my party and put the song on YouTube," Webstar says. "Over 40,000 people put it on MySpace, YouTube and other video sites, and I guess that's how the song spread, because Universal just went for radio adds a few days ago. And we came in No. 2 for songs added to radio just behind Beyonce."
After Enuff began playing the record in his mixshow, other stations in Atlanta and Houston picked up the track. Now "Chicken Noodle Soup" has garnered 1,086 spins nationally and is No. 41 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Also, a remix is in the works featuring Chris Brown and Ludacris, and the Cambell’s soup and Pepsi people have approached Webstar for branding deals.
In early August, Universal Republic Records president Monte Lipman signed Webstar to an artist deal for himself and Young B as well as a label deal for his Scrilla Hill Records. "Webstar Presents ... Caught in the Web," an entire album pulled together in the last few weeks, drops Sept. 26. Meanwhile, Young B's solo project is slated for first-quarter 2007.
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