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DJ Yoda The Amazing Adventures of DJ Yoda

Hip-hop used to be a laugh, back in the day. Block party DJs would cut up Micky Mouse records with drum breaks in and goof right off on the mic, getting all ‘dibby dibby’. But, by the early 2000s, it was like, ‘Why so serious?’ 50 Cent was all up in ‘da club’, and your grill, showing off his bullet holes and stomping about like everyone on earth owed him a fiver. Hip-hoppers needed a chuckle. It was time for someone to stand up, be counted, and dick about once more.

Enter DJ Yoda, the clown prince of the ones and twos. The Muppet Show on turntables. The one man who would go on this mission to bug on out, and lob a banana peel on the dancefloor.

For his debut album he’d meld comedy and rap, with the aim of cracking you up and moving your butt. He’d take a slice of the silliness found in his DJ sets, add a cut and a paste of the madness of his mixtapes, and assemble a crack list of gag-slinging MCs to ride the results. These would be his

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