Video: Last Emperor - Secret Wars

Filed under: The Hit List Although hip-hop has always had "hip" in its name, a surprising amount of geekery has made it into rap. Lupe Fiasco released an album called 'The Cool' but has popularized manga, self-consciousness and asthmatic-sounding breath control. And since MF Doom's and Kool Keith's entire outputs are the hip-hop equivalent of Comic-Con, we've bypassed their nerdy verses for 10 less obvious pocket-protector-friendly [...]

I've been spending a lot of time (unfortunately) in the car making my 'johnny-9-to-5' commute to work, and I've needed something to keep me awake, alert, and from having a Marge Simpson-esque freak out on the middle of the highway. My solution has been to dig through some of the old hip-hop mixtapes (actually CDs, I'm not that old) I made at the end of high school/through undergrad (and play them on the drive). I've re-remembered a pile of awesome hip-hop songs, but the Last Emperor 's "Secret Wars" has got to be one of my [...]

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