Hip Hop
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Hip hop music is a popular music genre highlighted several times in the Homestar Runner body of work.
Hip hop slang is often used by characters, such as the commonly uttered phrase "dag, yo" in Teen Girl Squad.
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Coach Z
Coach Z is a rapper whose singles include Rap Song (accidentally featuring Peacey P), These peoples try to fade me, Hip Hop Dance, and Fish Eye Lens (with Strong Bad). He has dressed up as several rappers for Halloween, and he is also a fan of the Wu-Tang Clan. Coach Z went on a lyrical rampage with Strong Bad in rampage. He also accidentally recorded a song over Strong Bad's speech in your funeral. According to the Yearbook Character Page, Coach Z claims to have been a chart-topping rapper in his home country. In the drama club performance in being mean, Coach Z performed "Being Mean Ain't the Greatest Choice." In Strong Badia the Free, when Homestar describes to Marzipan that Coach Z joined the enemy, he calls him "the traitorous Coach Z" and claims that that is his "new rap name".
Hip Hop-themed Halloween Costumes
- Flavor Flav (Homestarloween Party)
- Humpty Hump (The House That Gave Sucky Treats)
- Kool Moe Dee (3 Times Halloween Funjob)
- 2Pac (Halloween Fairstival)
- Queen Latifah (Happy Hallow-day)
- DJ Lance Rock (Most in the Graveyard)
- MC Skat Kat (Doomy Tales of the Macabre)
- A Tribe Called Quest (I Killed Pom Pom)
- André 3000 (The House That Gave Sucky Tricks)
- Kwamé (Later That Night...)
Strong Bad
Strong Bad is a fan of the genre and the show Yo! MTV Raps (12:00), and has been shown to rap a few times, including in Everybody to the Limit. He has collaborated with Coach Z on Fish Eye Lens. He has also created the Dog Food Gangstas. Also, many of his email intros feature a rap style.
- Email dragon — The email intro is a direct reference to a line from Phife Dawg in the song "La Schmoove" by Fu-Schnickens.
- Email technology
The Cheat
The Cheat is a DJ who plays hip hop and other genres, such as indietronic (geddup noise). He assisted Strong Bad in making the video for his rap song Everybody to the Limit (earning a pizza) and remixed the King of Town's "Not Talkin' 'bout Butter" in hip hop form (Marzipan's Answering Machine Version 13.2).
Others
- A DJ scratch is one of the available sounds in Audition with Marzipan.
- "Poot-Slap" by 3-Dee is a rap song of sorts.
- In New Boots, The Cheat dances a hip-hop dance on Homestar with his boots, after he pours hot soup on Homestar's eyes.
- In Halloween Potion-ma-jig, Homestar mentions "rap music" and asks Strong Sad what he would rap at a party.
- Crack Stuntman is seen rapping positive messages to kids and teens in An Important Rap Song.
- Peacey P is a rapper that The Ugly One seems to admire. His voice and singing style is very similar to that of Snoop Dogg.
See also
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