Hit With Social Media Bug, Ex-Fugee Pras Michel Takes Up Vlogging

Posted by Syberplanet on June 28th, 2008 - 28 views

Musicians starring in Web videos is nothing new. John Mayer’s comedic attempt on Funny or Die comes immediately to mind. And as far as general Internet startups go, M.C. Hammer is only one of many players. 50 Cent, Nick Lachey, and Kylie Minogue are in the fold as well.

Perhaps the newest name to arrive on the scene, with his own video blog, is the Grammy-winning former Fugee Pras Michel. Topics to be discussed with viewers? Anything on the artist’s mind. Music, movies, politics. No gossip, though. That’s out. So world news with some hip-hop flavor rolled in?

For the moment Pras is merely giving an introduction to the weekly production, held under the name Platinum Brand. We’ll see what comes this new effort. It almost seems normal now to have famous folk of various levels of success experiment with the cloud-based devices – some of course to better effect than others. The Will Farrell-infused Funny or Die venture being perhaps the most viral of all.

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