Brain Rot: Hip Hop Family Tree, Genius Rap, and The Original Human Beatbox

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• [Hamish Grant]

  for reference:

  Genius Rap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAY4DFQvR3Y
  Doug E Fresh in Action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJPOoy_eMM

• [Steve White]

  Every time man.  I just love these.

• [Ed Piskor]

  Here’s a good, early interview/demonstration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARBgBeHY1w

  • [tearock]

    Great Clip from a great time piece.  “Big Fun in the Big Town”

• [Changasyncadango Robotnik Terh]

  Love the subtle stuff you’re doing with perspective in those first few panels, man.  Keep on rockin’!

• [devophill]

  Ed, I have the sneaking suspicion that most of the background characters aren’t just nobodys, but will show up in later episodes. 

• [Mister44]

  YES – Doug E Fresh – my boy!

• [noah django]

  I was a preferred customer at the shop I bought my copy from, they let me dig the crates of the incoming stock before it was priced and shelved.  the best thing about Genius Rap is that the b-side is 10 minutes of the Genius Of Love beat–one of the greatest beats of all time–and as you noted, this version is synched to a computer drum; a tremendous boon for mixing!

  When I realized what I was holding, I told my man Nathan “I don’t care what you charge me, I’m leaving the store with this twelve-inch.”  “Uh, I really don’t know what a fair price would be….”  “how ’bout ten bucks?”  and that is how pic related got into my crate.

  • [Ed Piskor]

     Dope! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovbn9cjewaY