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FREE VARG.

Oh, he's free already?

Well, uh, uh, I mean ...

FREE VARG.

Star Wars Kinect comes out today! In a move that's sure to further desecrate rekindle your love of the franchise, the game lets you play as Star Wars characters clubbing to music that wouldn't sound out of place on an R. Kelly album. Let's hope they let R2D2 dance to dubstep!

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.

I guess Jay-Z wasn't actually rapping about March Madness.

Two-thirds of YouTube users agree: Nicki Minaj's last single was a stupid-show.

How DARE you sully the name of DJ Yella. IS NOTHING SACRED?

Vinyl junkies and nerdy hip-hop heads are no doubt salivating at this awesome R2D2-styled turntable. It looks like a heavily modded Technics 1200, so it's not too out of the question to find one on Craigslist to build a C3PO counterpart.

[boingboing]

If we can play devil's advocate for a moment:

Sugarhill Gang, 1979: "I said a hip, hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop."

Shabazz Palaces, 2011: "Yeah, you know I'm free, s**t, I'm free ... To make consume to catch the stuff that holds me down To capture my desires fashion out of this a crown Free to fill my smiles up with these tears that I forgot And haunt myself besides these pretty ghosts that float my heart You know I'm free."

Lil Wayne announced today that he'd be taking an indefinite hiatus from rapping to dedicate himself to a pursuit that will (hopefully) give him much less overexposure: skateboarding. Oh yeah, and that thing with the Mars landing happened, too.

Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari is already noted BFFs with Kanye West and Jay-Z (he makes a brief cameo in the music video for "Otis"), so Tumblr site Emceez Ansari helpfully lets us know what it would be like if he were a rapper, too.

You wish you could rap as good as this guy.

Jay-Z is a true American fisher.

Rapper Bilal ordered at the McDonald's drive-thru entirely in verse. It looks like he drove away before he could get his hamburger, but maybe next time he'll stay to see if they get his order right.

At a certain point in your life you realize that many stars of the music industry are more celebrity than musician.