Trivia / The Rap Critic

• Acting for Two: He, not only, has a Running Gag of two characters having a conversation based on a (bad) lyric from a song. But he also plays a hooded man who goes by the name of "Black Thunder", The Ghost of Isaac Hayes in the Halloween episodes.
• Approval of God: Lil Nas X commented in the RC video "The Deeper Meaning (and controversy) behind Lil Nas X's MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)", bluntly sharing his praise as "this is the best thing i’ve seen this week" and reposting the video on his Instagram.
• The Cast Showoff:
  • RC has his own rap career as Masta Artisan, and ocassionally he'll bring his own expertise in the artform to parody and lampoon the rappers he's making fun of, even if it is for comedic purposes.
  • He can even sing opera.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer:
  • In his review of "Birthday Song", he credits Kanye West for providing 2Chainz with financial backing and bringing him to the forefront. While Kanye has collaborated with 2Chainz a few times over the course of 2012, he isn't responsible for either of those things.
  • While reviewing David Banner's Certified, he criticizes "Play" for ripping off the Ying Yang Twins' "Wait (The Whisper Song)". Both songs were produced by "Mr. Collipark" Michael Crooms, a proponent of the snap subgenre of hip-hop. "Wait" came out three months before "Play", but both were produced around the same time.
  • He tries to point out how "Black Beatles" has nothing to do with The Beatles aside from a single namedrop to Paul McCartney, but he missed out one actual Shout-Out in the line "She's a good teaser." RC acknowledged his slip-up in the comments, pointing out how "that marks their direct Beatles music references in the song up to...two."
  • While discussing "Keep on Keeping on" by MC Lyte in his "Worst Lyrics of June 2014" video, he misinterprets the lyric as "Sugar from a booger" rather than "sugar for my booga". What makes this example particularly odd is that he has stated that he uses Rap Genius, making one wonder why he didn't double check the lyric.
• Old Shame:
  • He and Rob Boor of Cinematic Venom aren't too proud of their Crossover review of Moulin Rouge!, due to the use of words like "faggot" and "sissy". Rap Critic went so far as to ignore CV on Twitter when apologizing for it, even though the latter went on to apologize publically about it on social media as well while also fully owning up to the controversy, only to end up being ignored.
  • He didn't think much of his old song that went viral "OH MY GOD" when he reviewed it for April Fools' Day. He criticized it for the amateur sound mixing (which he lent to a friend who was studying sound mixing for film), overly elaborate and forced wordplay, and how it veered too close to validating "nice guy" behaviour.

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