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January 29, 2014 1:09 PM

Juice Media, with a little help from Sage Francis, drop the first episode of a new season of Rap News!
posted by nicolas léonard sadi carnot (6 comments total)

I laughed when Russell Brand said "bitch-coins."
posted by oceanjesse at 1:43 PM on January 29, 2014

That was... much better than I expected. The same guys behind Epic Rap Battles of History, it looks like.
posted by Navelgazer at 2:05 PM on January 29, 2014

Rap News is actually a production of Australians Giordano Nanni and Hugo Farrant.
posted by anemone of the state at 2:53 PM on January 29, 2014

I dunno, I feel like Sasha Baron Cohen already has this area covered but the Epic Rap Battles of History are, indeed, epic.
posted by fuse theorem at 3:46 PM on January 29, 2014

I never expected to love Rap News but it's been pretty consistently awesome over the years (and they get an unusually high number of Noam Chomsky cameos). They do a little better when they focus on a specific topic though, as opposed to this wide-ranging stuff.
posted by whir at 8:27 AM on January 30, 2014

Yes, this is not one of their strong ones- it's all over the place. Their "Whistleblower" episode with Ed Snowden was brilliant, though.
posted by anemone of the state at 9:27 AM on January 30, 2014