The new El-P video is good. His album Cancer 4 Cure is one of the two best rap albums released so far this year, I think. The other one is Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music, which El-P produced. And since El-P has said, wittily and correctly, “I swear to God I could make a beat with a banjo and a church organ only and someone will call it ‘dystopian sci-fi’,” I will take this opportunity to tell you that scientists have discovered a planet with four suns. (That’s not “fi,” I guess, but is is “sci.”) But FOUR suns! I hope they have really, really awesome blackout shades on that planet. Otherwise, no one’s getting any sleep there and everyone will be so tired all the time like Al Pacino in Insomnia.
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