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This week’s episode started with a tour of a few legendary spots around the Bronx for a lesson in hip hop history or as I like to call it, hiphopstery.

Among others, they stopped by Kurtis Blow’s place. Am I the only one who was surprised to learn that he’s still alive, especially with a name like Kurtis Blow? I feel if your name invokes a drug you probably won’t live a long life. You’re never going to read an obituary that reads Rapper Tom Methamphetamines Dead at 91. By the way, how do you settle on a name like Kurtis Blow? Was Kurtis Cocaine already taken? What about Kurtis Crack?

After that, the group competed in a game show of that tested their knowledge of old school hip hop songs. MC Serch played a clip and whoever answered first would get a point. It’s embarrassing for me when none of them could identify a Run DMC song.

Following that embarrassment, the entire group was then split in half to compete against each other in a microphone battle royale. I have to tell you, watching these morons come up with a rhyme on the spot is like watching…well, I don’t want to say it. I’ll just say every appropriate analogy that pops into my head involves special needs children.

Each member of the losing group then had to come up with a verse or two of self-deprecating lyrics. The loser of that bunch would be eliminated. With all of these losers you’d think it’d be easy for them to make fun of themselves. They couldn’t even do that effectively. These people are uber-losers.

To help judge, MC Serch brought out his friend and legendary producer, Prince Paul. Not just Prince Paul but legendary producer Prince Paul. I spent about ten seconds looking up exactly what production work the double P, as I’m sure his true homies call him, has done to earn the title of legendary and sure enough, it took me even less time to read over his list of accomplishments. Let’s see, he did a Chris Rock album. That’s legendary! With legendary producer Prince Paul and hip hop icon MC Serch, this show is just chalk full of stars! VH1 must have spent a fortune on this show.

When it was all said and done, Misfit was voted off. That’s just great; they get rid of hot one. What reason do I have to watch this show now? And more importantly, why don’t these people get it? It’s like they saw Seth Green in Can’t Hardly Wait and thought, “Man, that guy’s cool.”

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