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Sure, we all loved last winter’s “I Get On (The TTC)” viral video hit. Syrus Watson and Randal Medford’s urban-flavoured ode to Toronto transit (or at least the non-homophobic version) was all the rage with just about everyone—adults, children, grandmothers, national newspaper outlets, and even the TTC itself. But all the while, one disillusioned soul was peering from the shadows, perturbed that they weren't keeping it real enough. And so, he's taken matters into his own hands.

     

When TTC spokesperson (and esteemed Torontoist commenter) Brad Ross contacted YouTube superstars Syrus and Randal, they figured they were about to be hit with a cease and desist for their parody music video "I Get On (the TTC)." Turns out he just wanted to invite the pair to today's public TTC meeting at City Hall to honour them and give them free January metropasses.

How far Syrus Watson and Randal Medford have come. When we first published an article early Friday morning about their "I Get On (The TTC)" video—a Toronto transit–centric re-imagining of Young Jeezy and Kanye West's "I Put On (For My City)"—it had a few dozen views. By mid-day it had a few thousand; shortly thereafter, BlogTO picked up the story, then Eye, and then, today, the National Post, who quoted Adam Giambrone as saying he is "impressed" and thinks Watson and Medford's video is "terrific." "It represents many peoples' feeling towards TTC...love and frustration," Giambrone told the Post, who also noted that Medford and Giambrone "attended an awards gala on Sunday night" and took the Dufferin bus home from it together and that Giambrone has said that the TTC is "exploring how they could use the video."