Today I was on YouTube wasting time before work and I came across a video by ArtInSound. He does amazing sax covers of songs I like and I was thrilled. They sound really awesome and he’s really good. You can check out his website here.

It takes a lot of skill, patience, and practice to be able to play an instrument, listen to songs and cover them on an instrument that probably wasn’t in the original.

And yes, I’m jealous because I can’t play an instrument.

I keep hearing Dark Child in songs that I listen to and one day I looked it up. I found out that Dark Child’s Rodney Jerkins’ stage name. I’m listening to “You Rock My World” by Michael Jackson as I write this and in this version of the song I thought I heard him say Dark Child in the beginning which is what sparked this post.
So it made me think about artist marks. What do you all think? Is it wrong for him to put it in songs? Is it annoying? As a an “artist” myself, I don’t think so. I think it’s tacky the way Jay-Z and Kayne do it sometimes, especially… nevermind, that’s a whole new story. But whenever I hear Dark Child I usually like the song and if he’d never had it put in songs, I’d have no idea who he was. Props to the man for producing some really good songs.