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Have you seen the goofy new McDonalds commercial with the kid dancing to “The Cha Cha Slide?”

Funny stuff, right? And I bet you’ve heard the same song at weddings too, even if you didn’t know its name.

But did you know it was produced M.O.B. Records Inc., a Chicago record label controlled by Marvel “King Vel” Thompson, the reputed head of the Gangster Disciples street gang?

Or so said U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald back in 2004, before he became famous as the special prosecutor who convicted Vice President Dick Cheney’s aide Scooter Libber.

Doesn’t look so cute after you hear that, does it?

I wonder where the royalties for the commercial are going. Is M.O.B. Records still operating? If not, who is collecting off the track these days?

It looks like their Web site is down. Here’s what the homepage says:

Sorry our site’s broken… but we have had problems with our web server and a slow hosting company (yawn!) and we’ve had to take it out of service. We will resume normal service in the next day or so… Come back soon!

Thanks for being here for us…

Maybe I’ll send an email over to the McDonalds PR squad on this.

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