Think you can tear yourself away from the #GoldenShowerGate jokes for one tiny sec? It's worth it, promise.
Though we've often suspected that Harry Potter himself was more the swaying-at-an-Ed-Sheeran-gig than the spitting-out-Wu-Tang-Clan-rhymes type — unlike his alter ego, rap beast Daniel Radcliffe — the J.K. Rowling character has found himself some new street cred. The Comedy Central show @Midnight has kicked off the #HipHopHarryPotter hashtag challenge, and now our feed is filled with Drake and Draco puns.
Not that we mind. Who (except perhaps Sir Mix-a-Lot and Nicki Minaj) could object to tweets like "My anaconda don’t want none if you can’t speak parseltongue"?
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My anaconda don’t want none if you can’t speak parseltongue @midnight #HipHopHarryPotter
— Cameron (@castielspizza_) January 11, 2017
Actually, it's a mixed bag. Some contributions are clever. Some are lame. And some suggest a shocking inability to judge what is and what is not hip-hop. Gloria Gaynor? Britney Spears? Miley Cyrus? No.
500 points to these tweeters, though. Also: How has "Longbottom jeans" not yet been used?
I like big mutts and I cannot lie - Hagrid #HipHopHarryPotter @midnight
— be a patriot! (@RealMikeTammaro) January 11, 2017
Rain Drop
— $NADNAD (@dandans_dlt) January 11, 2017
Drop Top
Harry almost made a Dursley pop!
#HipHopHarryPotter @midnight
Stop by Roscoe's for chicken and quaffles @midnight #HipHopHarryPotter
— Not-So-Bad Hombre (@StrikeLowry) January 11, 2017
They see me, Rowling #HipHopHarryPotter @midnight
— Justin_my_Converse (@justinconverse5) January 11, 2017
B-I-G P-O-T-T-A
— Damien F. Capps (@mrdamienfcapps) January 11, 2017
In class to learn D-A-D-A
Dolores Umbridge mad 'cuz I'm sayin'
Voldemort's back
And Hogwarts is in danja#HipHopHarryPotter
Ginny And Juice #HipHopHarryPotter @midnight
— DanielBrooks (@DanielBrooks) January 11, 2017
I like the way you work it (No Diggory)#HipHopHarryPotter
— Tim Jones (@TheRealTLLJ) January 11, 2017
Bone, Thugs N' Hermoine @midnight #HipHopHarryPotter
— Sir Mike S'alot (@mpcowen) January 11, 2017