Denny Blaze
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Denny Hazen, commonly known by his stage name
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 Denny Blaze, The Average Homeboy and Blazin' Hazen, is an American
United States
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 rapper
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 made famous for a demo tape produced in the late 1980s featuring his single "The Average Homeboy". The video was widely rejected by record labels and allegedly sat within a box at an MTV
MTV
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 Studio for 17 years until an employee discovered the video then uploaded it to YouTube
YouTube
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. Subsequently another demo video of his surfaced known as Blazin' Hazen. Soon, his videos made primetime as they were featured VH1
VH1
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's Web junk and Best Week Ever
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. Denny Blaze has since released two albums under his own label, Blazin Productions. Denny Blaze was also featured on Doogtoons
Doogtoons
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 and made an appearance on episode 21 of Tosh.0
Tosh.0
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which aired on February 10, 2010.

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