The fact that this video only has 400,000 views is as if only 400,000 people knew about the Holocaust. It's like George Santanaya said, "those who cannot learn from miserable Joe Pesci bullshit rap videos are doomed to repeat... CONTINUE READING THIS IS YOUR MUSIC VIDEO: JOE PESCI'S "WISEGUY"»
Posted on October 28, 2009 in Hate-Watching
(28 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Joe Pesci | Nightmares
I don't have any idea what this even is. Surprisingly, all of the YouTube comments on this video in the past couple of hours have been nothing but thoughtful and full of respect. Or the exact opposite. (Thanks for... CONTINUE READING FINE, THE FALCON HEENE "PUSSIFICATION" MUSIC VIDEO»
Posted on October 15, 2009 in Where Were They Then?
(39 comments)
Tags: Balloons | Children | Disasters | Fake Rap | Falcon Heene | Nightmares
Some interns at an ad agency made a fake rap about being interns at an ad agency. Please sign here. ... CONTINUE READING DON DRAPER IS ROLLING IN HIS MAKE-BELIEVE GRAVE»
Posted on August 5, 2009 in Bad Idea Jeans
(5 comments)
Tags: Advertising | Fake Rap | Internships
It continues! Perhaps the most pernicious thing about fake rap is its ability to turn every fake rapper into the Fake Rap Poster Boy. (How do we kill it?!) There has never been a single fake rap that has been... CONTINUE READING IN CASE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THE MOVEMENT TO END FAKE RAP»
Posted on July 8, 2009 in Parodies, Petitions
(16 comments)
Tags: Cars | Fake Rap
Rap is an American cultural invention, but in its incredible popularity it has been co-opted and adopted by cultures around the world. Latin rap, of course, has taken on a life of its own and returned to America on its... CONTINUE READING THE PROBLEM OF FAKE RAP IS INTERNATIONAL»
Posted on May 1, 2009 in Music Related Content
(12 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Israel
And that is two nerds doing an acoustic cover of Soulja Boy. They call themselves Scared of Dinosaurs, and they have made a terrible mistake: It's funny, because a lot of those lyrics sound silly coming out of a white... CONTINUE READING IT TURNS OUT THERE IS SOMETHING WORSE THAN SOULJA BOY»
Posted on April 24, 2009 in Fan Art, Music Related Content
(17 comments)
Tags: Covers | Fake Rap | Scared Of Dinosaurs | Soulja Boy
Before you even say anything, this is not fake rap*. That war continues apace, street soldiers! This is just a hilarious Kanye parody about Robert Wuhl's beloved HBO show. Straight to the bank with this. Kanye West and Joe Mande... CONTINUE READING HOW COULD YOU BE SO ARLI$$?»
Posted on April 22, 2009 in Music Related Content, Parodies
(3 comments)
Tags: Arli$$ | Depeche Mode | Fake Rap | Kanye West | Robert Wuhl
When it comes to fake rap, the most obvious offenders are white people. Well, when it comes to anything, the most obvious offenders are white people. But silly middle-aged men in khaki trousers with their shirts tucked in throwing their... CONTINUE READING FAKE RAP IS COLOR BLIND»
Posted on April 6, 2009 in Music Related Content, WebJunk
(4 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Lollapalooza | The Decemberists
The evidence: beatboxing on Hee Haw! I think we can add this to the fake rap canon: Someday when they write the book "Explaining Justin Timberlake," this incident will be included. (Also, trivia: crunk originated on The Waltons.) (Thanks for... CONTINUE READING EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT BEATBOXING IS WRONG»
Posted on March 30, 2009 in Music Related Content, Video Skeletons
(8 comments)
Tags: Beatboxing | Fake Rap | Hee Haw
It was only a matter of time before our mission to eradicate fake rap touched upon Cop Rock, the short-lived 1990 musical cop show. To be fair, while it is commonly held that those who cannot learn from history are... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: COP ROCK»
Posted on March 25, 2009 in Backlashes
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Tags: Cop Rock | Fake Rap
Where exactly does real rap end and fake rap begin? That can obviously be a blurry line, and in general it's just best to trust your instinct. Of course, there are obvious questions to ask yourself: Are the lyrics unbelievably... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: TOM HANKS AND DAN AYKROYD DRAGNET RAP»
Posted on March 18, 2009 in Music Related Content
(14 comments)
Tags: Dan Aykroyd | Dragnet | Fake Rap | Tom Hanks | Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Gabe has made it his mission to put an end to fake rap, and it's something he takes very seriously (you can sign the petiton here.) I generally agree, but if fake rap ends, what will delight us fifteen years... CONTINUE READING FAKE-RAPPING PREGNANT LADIES IN AN EXERCISE VIDEO»
Posted on February 16, 2009 in Music Related Content, Video Skeletons
(10 comments)
Tags: Exercise | Fake Rap
This is an ad for Huggies called "The Potty Dance." (via YTR): Now, if I'm not mistaken, babies don't have any money. Am I wrong about that? Do babies have a ton of money that I don't know about? Because... CONTINUE READING PARENTS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND / I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND PARENTS»
Posted on February 11, 2009 in Free Advertising
(11 comments)
Tags: Children | Diapers | Fake Rap
Whether or not Joaquin Phoenix genuinely retired from his acting career to pursue his love of being the worst rapper in the world, or whether it is all a big goof perpetrated by a bored millionaire with too much time... CONTINUE READING WE ALL HAVE JOAQUIN FATIGUENIX, BUT HERE HE IS "RAPPING" IN A MOVIE»
Posted on February 6, 2009 in Oh, Yuck!
(3 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Girls | Joaquin Fatiguenix | Joaquin Phoenix | Two Lovers
John Updike has died of lung cancer at the age of 76. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who looked deep into the dark heart of our modern malaise. There are plenty of places on the internet to read touching,... CONTINUE READING HEAVEN JUST GOT A LITTLE MORE JOHN UPDIKE»
Posted on January 27, 2009 in Death
(10 comments)
Tags: Books | Fake Rap | John Updike
One aspect of fake rap that we haven't addressed yet is just how fucking depressing it is. We can make our fancy Pitchfork arguments about how it treats a mature musical genre as a childish joke, which has a weird... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: WENDY'S TRAINING VIDEO»
Posted on January 9, 2009 in Petitions
(12 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Wendy's
Our pal Cajun Boy sent over this shameful, shining example of White People Co-opting Black Culture: a local commercial featuring "The Credit Mack Daddy," who will give the citizens of Southern Georgia deals on used cars with no credit check.... CONTINUE READING "THE CREDIT MACK DADDY" TOTALLY WENT TO MY CHURCH»
Posted on January 8, 2009 in Local Commercials
(6 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Radiohead
As yesterday's Super Broker Shuffle proved, the fake rap situation is not quite as cut-and-dry as, for example, the gay marriage question. This has a lot to do with fake rap being stupid and unimportant, whether you like it or... CONTINUE READING EVEN FAKE RAP ABOUT GOSSIP GIRL MUST BE STOPPED»
Posted on January 6, 2009 in Backlashes, Everyone's A Critic
(8 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | Gossip Girl
One of the worst things in the history of things is when someone tries to talk to you in what they think is "your language," because it's never "your language." It comes out sounding like a mean joke, and that's... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: THE EL PASO POLICE DEPARTMENT»
Posted on December 11, 2008 in Music Related Content
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Tags: El Paso | Fake Rap
As you know, the campaign to end fake rap is needed more badly than ever before. Not only have the Ed McMahon advertisements for FreeCreditReport emerged as a major new threat to our desire to see this embarrassing trend put... CONTINUE READING THESE KIDS RAPPING ABOUT THE ELECTION TO T.I.'S "WHATEVER YOU LIKE" ARE THE BEST»
Posted on October 23, 2008 in Music Related Content
(8 comments)
Tags: Barack Obama | Children | Election 2008 | Fake Rap | John McCain
Ouch. Shit just got real. Maybe you guys think this is just a joke. We will see who is laughing when Fake Rap is PRESIDENT! (What?) I don't know how much more plainly I can put this: fake rap needs... CONTINUE READING THE END FAKE RAP MOVEMENT SUFFERS A STUNNING DEFEAT»
Posted on October 17, 2008 in Backlashes, Free Advertising
(2 comments)
Tags: Ed McMahon | Fake Rap
I can understand why maybe the international community wasn't fired up about the news that Ed McMahon was going to be producing fake raps for FreeCreditReport.com. It didn't seem like it would affect many people outside the U.S. and we've... CONTINUE READING THE END FAKE RAP MOVEMENT: GLOBAL OUTREACH»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in Backlashes, Music Related Content
(0 comments)
Tags: Ban Ki Moon | Bonnaroo | Coachella | David Byrne | Fake Rap | Jay-Z | Petition | United Nations
"Rap is a way of saying 'knock knock.'" "Who's there?" "It's me. Open the door and listen to what I've got to say." [ED. NOTE: no, it's not.] (thanks for the tip, Edith) The People's Movement to End Fake Rap... CONTINUE READING TRACING THE HISTORY OF FAKE RAP: MR. T.»
Posted on October 6, 2008 in Petitions, WebJunk
(11 comments)
Tags: Fake Rap | History | Mr. T
In early August, buried in a post about a horrible Large Hadron Collider video in which scientists in science coats made a rap about their experiment, I declared that it was time to put an end to fake rap, and... CONTINUE READING THE END FAKE RAP MOVEMENT NEEDS YOUR HELP»
Posted on September 25, 2008 in Backlashes, Music Related Content, Viral Marketing
(0 comments)
Tags: Ed McMahon | Fake Rap
You know what, fuck it. We're selling this website to Burger King. Why not? It's going to be called burgerkinggum.com and it's going to be delicious (free burgers from your company now, please, I called you delicious). I AM JUST... CONTINUE READING WELCOME TO BURGERKINGGUM.COM, MAY I BLOG YOUR ORDER (SORRY)»
Posted on August 12, 2008 in Music Related Content
(2 comments)
Tags: Beyoncé | Burger King | Cazwell | De La Soul | Fake Rap
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If you are a sassy and sarcastic young man in an American sitcom who represents the sitcom writer's desire that a nerdy Jewish teenager can somehow be the desirable romantic hero in this world, then eventually you will get a...
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I shouldn't even be here right now. I SHOULD BE GETTING INTO MY COSTUME! If I don't hurry, my facepaint won't be dry before I get to the MOONVIE theater, and everyone will be like "hahah, you look like you're...
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The Challenge: I had to go on a 3.5 hour bus tour of totally random TV and film locations in New York City. Alone, and wearing a specific ridiculous tshirt. And I had to find someone to take my picture...
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Uh. OK. Well, first let's address what this movie did well, like the disappointed parents we are (or at least that I am), recognizing that the negative feedback won't be useful or constructive if it isn't preceded by something positive....
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