Rap

Send a 20,000 inch meat lover’s where the cheese is gooey… and a female driver dat’ll feed it to me. Mac Lethal likes pizza. After all, he’s the guy who bought his whole audience a stack of them. Here, he calls his favorite pizza place, and orders the only way he knows how.

(PG-13: Language) Isaiah Howard (@isaiahxavier10) uses the smartphone app musical.ly to create totally trippy selfie music videos, which feature fast camera movements, and rapid edits which are at once completely disorienting and hypnotic.

Impressionist Mikey Bolts takes on the 1999 Blackalicious classic Alphabet Aerobics, matching each letter of the alphabet to a cartoon character, and raps each part in their voice. We swear, the more we look at Mikey, the more we think he’s actually Peter Brady.

Kawehi is a fully self-contained marching band as she walks down the sidewalk and performs her latest song, a rallying cry she wrote when was tired of being put down for being a “silly woman.” It’s an inspiring tune that people of all genders and races can get behind.

2017 Tiny Desk Contest winner Tank and the Bangas effortlessly combine smooth jazz, spoken word, hip hop, R&B, love and humor. Watch them play one of the best Tiny Desk sets we’ve ever seen. If they don’t blow up globally, there truly is no justice in this world.

(PG-13: Language) The extraordinarily talented rapper Mac Lethal received a hateful, obnoxious, slur-filled comment from a low-life internet troll. So what did he do? He decided to respond to the message with a little critique of the dude’s grammar and spelling.

(PG-13: Language) Mac Lethal continues to prove that nothing can stand in the way of him spitting sick rhymes. Here he rattles off some lyrical genius while he gets a serious workout. We can barely jump rope while chewing gum.

(PG-13: Language) AnimalRobot perfectly synced up Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated so Shaggy, Fred, Velma, Daphne, and Scooby are now singing Anderson .Paak’s dance jam Come Down. And we thought they were blazing, not drinking in the Mystery Machine.

(PG-13: Language) Rapper Mac Lethal’s latest challenge to himself was to create a rap which manages to work in every number between 0 and 60 in a way that makes sense. We think he gave it a solid effort – that First 48 bit was sick. Beats by Danny Grooves.

Common and The Roots’ Tariq Trotter prove why they’re professional rappers, and you’re not, as they’re challenged to take three totally random words and work them into a freestyle. “Girl reaching their climax, I’m larger than life, I’m like the IMAX.” Black Thought, you win.

(PG-13: Language) After wowing us with his lickety-split rapping skills, and minimal need for oxygen, Mac Lethal decided to lighten things up a bit, and spit some mad beats under the influence of helium. He should try it with some Sulfur Hexafluoride next time.

(PG-13: Language) We’re big fans of the mad rap skills of Mac Lethal around here. After doing some crazy breathing exercises, he attempts to rap for 90 seconds straight without pausing or inhaling. We’re out of breath just from watching him try.

(PG-13: Language) A well executed mashup track by kmlkmljkl which combines Childish Gambino’s Bonfire with S U R V I V E’s hypnotic Stranger Things opening theme. We like the title, but think Childish Things could have worked too.

(PG-13: Language) Director Mattis Dovier’s animated music video for XXX’s dope track uses good old 1-bit images to paint a vivid picture of a flight on the world’s creepiest airline. Chicken or beef? More like bugs or snakes?

While traveling through Berlin, vocalist EllandM spotted rapper INFIDELIX performing in the subway. She decided to join in and sing along with this awesome improv jam, backed by the beats of Phantogram’s When I’m Small.

(PG-13 Language) “We wanted to make a positive, life-affirming video that captures politicians at their election-year best. We got this instead.” The music video for DJ Shadow and Run the Jewels‘ collab sums up the childish mudslinging going on in D.C. these days.

(PG-13: Lyrics) A perfectly synchronized mashup between dance meme sensation John “Double Dream Feet” Jacobson and Lil Jon & Eastside Boyz’ 2002 track Throw It Up. Who knows. Maybe John really does have this track in heavy rotation on his iPod.

“We, the People, would like you to know that wherever you go we’re right by your side.” Chance the Rapper performs an original song for Nike’s sponsored Olympians. Please support the USA men’s basketball team in their quest to win gold by a bazillion points.

Musician Dave Wave combines his jazz piano and sax stylings with the rap rhythms and pacing of Eminem’s 2002 classic, resulting in an unlikely, but somehow awesome marriage of two seemingly incompatible musical genres.

Beatboxer Tom Thum turns in an epic live performance of his track Ratchet Face, spitting out crazy sounds, and impressing us with his mad looping and sequencing skills. Though there were times we couldn’t help think of Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade.

(PG-13 Language) Mylo the Cat turns his attention to Looney Tunes for his latest lip dub, mashing up Bugs Bunny’s wacky antics with the smooth prose and flows of Tupac Shakur’s final magnum opus Hail Mary. U.S. Mirror here.

(PG-13 Language) For anyone out there who had any doubts that the foul-mouthed, humourous lyricist Lil Dicky was a legitimate rapper, this freestyle clip from Tim Westwood TV should put your mind at ease, as the Dickster lets his prose flow with the best of them.

(PG-13: Lyrics) Lalalala, la la la laaah… As a tribute to the comedy of Mike Judge, Mylo the Cat gave the 1999 Method Man and Redman classic the Beavis and Butthead treatment in his latest animated lip-sync mashup, and the end result is Internet gold.

(PG-13 Language) J.R.R. Tolkien takes on George R.R. Martin in an epic rap battle of the R.R.s. If the prize was strictly based on the amount of blood spilled, Martin would win, while Tolkien is the clear victor at the box office. Of course Martin does have Gregor Clegane on his side.

(PG-13 Lyrics) “Made an Instagram for my cat… And my cat doesn’t even rap…” Mitchell Overton and John Peterson used an iPhone to shoot their lighthearted low budget video for Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and xp’s collab track while shooting behind the scenes tour footage.