Patrick “The White Akon” Stump Yanked From Roots Album

anthonyjmiccio | March 26, 2008 3:45 am

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You didn’t want the worst, you didn’t get the worst! The Roots have caved to public disgust and removed “Birthday Girl,” their collabo with omnipresent Fall Out Boy troubadour Patrick Stump, from their upcoming album Rising Down. “Birthday Girl” is still the album’s first international single, but it’s been reduced to “iTunes-only” status in America. I don’t really see what makes the song so heinous. It might be a little Sublime for hardcore fans of the band, but if it lacks crossover potential, it’s due to the Roots’ milquetoast albatross Black Thought, not Stump (ladies on YouTube seem to like the track just fine). If the vocal was credited to Cody ChesnuTT, would the Internet have been so put off? [Nah Right / Photo: AP]