TheJuiceMedia - Rap News

December 18, 2010 2:59 PM

People who enjoyed Rap News 5 - Wikileaks & the war on journalism which covered the Iraq War Logs (featuring, er, Donald Rumsfeld and Bill O'Reilly) will probably enjoy the new episode Rap News 6 - Wikileaks' Cablegate (featuring, er, Hillary Clinton, Alex Jones and others).

Both of these put together by the people at TheJuiceMedia. (MWLYT)

posted by memebake (11 comments total)

You had me at Alex Jones.
posted by bionic.junkie at 3:23 PM on December 18, 2010

This is so getting deleted by the mods
posted by MattMangels at 5:50 PM on December 18, 2010

Here are these guys doing a rap at the December 10th Melbourne Wikileaks rally. Great stuff!
posted by Joe Chip at 6:11 PM on December 18, 2010 [1 favorite]

Alex Jones was an honoree on the 2006 list of America’s most loathsome people. My best guess is that Hilary Clinton has the dubious honor of being listed more than once, and I suspect that Barack Obama is in the running for the top slot this year.
posted by Huplescat at 7:14 PM on December 18, 2010

Joe Chip's link needed to be this for me.
posted by XMLicious at 8:24 PM on December 18, 2010 [2 favorites]

Sorry my link was probably the mangled mobile version.

Wikileaks.ch is now hosting ep6!
posted by Joe Chip at 12:47 AM on December 19, 2010

Metafilter: Hillary Clinton, Alex Jones and others
posted by Anything at 1:23 AM on December 19, 2010

This is certainly giving a very pro-WL/Assange side of everything, so it can hardly claim to be unbiased, but I was blown away by the combination of rhyming and politics. So much rap seems to be about, er, how good a rapper the person is, so its fascinating for me to see how effective something like this can be. The first minute and last minute of part 6 are particularly incredible, although I could have done with a little less of the pantomime stuff in the middle. But then, I don't think I'm really the target audience for this.

Here's an interview with TheJuiceMedia that gives a bit more detail about the special guest in part 5.
posted by memebake at 7:11 AM on December 19, 2010 [1 favorite]

You know... It's early sunday morning, coffee's brewing... maybe my brain isn't really working yet, but I thought this was pretty funny.
posted by ph00dz at 7:50 AM on December 19, 2010

I heard about this on the BBC World News last night. A good companion to "Autotune the News" and executed with a much sharper stance.

Julian Assange himself makes a cameo at the 4:57 mark in episode 5. According to the BBC interview, Assange is a big fan of TheJuiceMedia, saying that they are one of the few who get the point of what he's trying to accomplish.
posted by not_on_display at 1:43 PM on December 22, 2010

I almost missed this - it's made of win.
posted by anigbrowl at 8:00 AM on December 24, 2010