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Biggie mashed up with the theme from Thomas the Tank Engine. Shining Time Station will never be the same.

You wish you could rap as good as this guy.

"Reanimated corpse" isn't entirely accurate. It's actually a hologram of the late, great West-coast rapper, which gave a surprise performance to finish off the first week of Coachella 2012. This proves that (a) industry executives can own your body as well as your soul, and (b) '90s nostalgia has gotten WAY out of hand.

Jay-Z is a true American fisher.

Product placements aren't just for movies and tv shows.

Listen to a Jay-Z song - any Jay-Z song - and TELL me Minaj isn't really Jay-Z cross-dressing and pumped up with estrogen.

Truly a masterpiece worthy of Salvador Dalí. An insightful commentary on our modern-day culture of reappropriation and its inevitable distortion and perversion of the original cultural artifact. 10/10.

The sublime effect of this pairing is more transcendent without context, but if you REALLY want to know where this picture came from, it was from some event sponsoring a Star Wars-themed Adidas shoe.

Comedy rappers Emmanuel and Phillip Hudson do a spot-on impression of a squabbling couple.

Success really DOES change people. Specifically, it gives people more money to buy drugs.

This kid is only four years old, and his rhythm and beats are impeccable. Maybe when he learns to read and write, he can be an even better lyricist!

Life's too short to spend all of it paying attention to Drake. #yolo