NOPE! THAT AINT HIM! THAT WASN'T PRESIDENT OBAMA IN THE TAG TEAM VIDEO WHOOMP THERE IT IS!

Whoomp - there he wasn't.

The White House was forced to respond Wednesday to a conspiracy theory too silly for even the birthers: Did Barack Obama appear in the video for Tag Team's 1993 one-hit wonder "Whoomp! (There it is)"?

One minute into the 17-year-old video, someone in a Compton ball cap with large ears and a killer smile - looking very Obama-esque, in other words - grins up at the camera while talking on a big 1990s cell phone.

The likeness was noted independently by a right wing pro-gun blogger in Tennessee and a hip-hop forum, according to Gawker, which connected the two in a posting on Saturday.

By Monday, the theory was all the rage, chewed over by CNN, Fox and a vast array of bloggers.

They debated whether Obama, who was teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School at the time, could really have been an extra in the Atlanta duo's goofy party video.

On Tuesday, a mystified Tag Team duo had emerged from obscurity to publicly deny the future President was in their video. Turns out the guy in the Compton hat was a rapper they knew back in the day named L.A. Sno.

"We've been bombarded over the last 24 hours," Cecil Glenn, aka DC The Brain Supreme, told Gawker. "This is crazy, man."

Finally, the super-serious fact checkers at PolitiFact asked for official comment, and White House spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield declared definitely: "It's not him."