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A Very Random Christmas Publisher: Random, a.k.a. Mega Ran Price: Whatever you'd like to pay! I am a guy who loves Christmas music to the point where I'll occasionally start listening to it a little early -- like, say, March -- but even I get tired of hearing different versions of the same 20 songs every year...

We've featured the comics-related rapping of emcee Adam WarRock numerous times, and now we've got a special Free Comic Book Day treat from the man who brought you the West Coast Avengers mixtape and The War for Infinity: an all-new track called "Marvel vs...

The ties between hip-hop and otaku culture just got tighter. Random (a.k.a. Mega Ran) recently released a new album titled Black Materia that follows the plot of Final Fantasy VII. And, as pointed out by Japanator, it's pretty solid by the standards of mainstream rap and "nerdcore" alike...

We've been big fans of the geek-oriented rapper Adam WarRock -- a.k.a. Eugene Ahn -- for a while now at ComicsAlliance, spotlighting his Scott Pilgrim, Doctor Who, and Ira Glass-themed tracks, and generally shouting out his nerd-friendly hip hop stylings...

We got in-depth on the relation between comics and rap late last year, and briefly mentioned West Coast emcee Murs and Devil's Due Productions founder Josh Blaylock as teaming up for parties. Well, since then, they've been quietly publishing a comic book of their own...

With the big announcement of the title and release date for "Scott Pilgrim v.6" on Friday and the twitter contests Oni Press ran on Saturday, it's been a pretty exciting weekend for Scott Pilgrim fans. Even so, it's hard to imagine that anyone was more excited than Adam WarRock, who dropped a five-minute rap called "I Gotta Believe...

The Wu-Tang Clan has been one of pop culture's most comics-friendly groups since its inception. Method Man adopted Johnny Blaze and Ghost Rider as aliases early in his career, and still reads comics. Ghostface Killah christened himself Tony Stark (sometimes spelled Tony Starks or Toney Starks)...

Pop quiz, hot shot. Who said this? "I got it mastered, man. In the hood I'm like Plastic Man... stretch!" No idea? What about this one: "I got Spider-Man high, I made Batman fly"? Still no idea? It was rap superstar 50 Cent, on the song "Stretch" from his long-awaited and just-released fourth studio album "Before I Self Destruct...