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Star Wars Rap Is Better Than The Phantom Menace

3:45PM Nick Broughall | Considering it’s a Star Wars based gangsta rap, I’m kinda disappointed that nobody whacked Jar Jar Binks, even though it’s original trilogy material. Still, definitely worth a watch on a Friday. More »
Toys

Classic Hip-Hop Album Covers Redone in Lego: Dr. Dre is More Cuddly as a Minifig

2:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | The ironists over at Formatmag have taken 20 classic hip-hop albums and Lego-fied them, making famous grumpy scowlers like The Game and Nas into everyone’s favourite tiny plastic figurines. More »
Phones

‘CrackBerry Love’ Tribute Ruins Ten Years of BlackBerry in About Four Minutes

9:55PM John Herrman | Gadget-inspired songs are almost always terrible, but this, this is something else. A kind-of-spoof, kind-of-ad performed by legendary nobody Caitlen Moe, “Crackberry Love” is an unmitigated disaster. Things to watch for: a man in a BlackBerry suit, endless T-Mobile shout-outs that the company almost certainly didn’t ask for, and the line “my Crack and I, we got a date.” Slightly NSFW for language, and because your boss might hate it enough to just fire you out of spite. [CrackBerry] More »
Entertainment

Astrobiology Rap Proves That Science Is Fun, Nothing Really Rhymes with Abiogenesis

7:00PM John Herrman | If the fantastic Large Hadron Collider rap was too esoteric for your tastes, Oort Kuiper’s Astrobiology rap, commissioned by a European astronomy magazine, probably won’t find its way onto your prestigious and exclusive “muzic 4 drivin’ ‘n’ shit” playlist. But, in the spirit of science, consider the facts: More »
Phones

Why Rap Stars Are Hating on the iPhone

10:00PM Benny Goldman | At the Rock the Bells festival on Sunday I asked some of the most important hip-hop artists in the game—and my heroes since childhood—what they hated most about the iPhone. Whether they owned it or not, most of the stars had a good reason to dis the overhyped phone, and their answers ranged from the mundane (Trugoy from De La Soul says it’s “too cute”) to the slightly crazy (dead prez’s M-1 brought up the Matrix and Big Brother). Only Wu-Tang’s Method Man couldn’t find a way to bring the pain—we expect a new single, “F-A-N-B-O-Y Man”, any day now. More »