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Just visit maximum fund.org slash donate. It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. My guest is Ice Tea. He talks to a whole pile of hip-hop luminaries about their craft in his recent documentary. You know, every rapper walks into a show and says, I'm not rapping tonight. I'm not chill. But it's biting me, fighting me, enticing me to rhyme. I can't hold it back. I'm looking for the line taking off my coat, clearing my throat. This rhyme will be kicking in until I hit my last note. It's like crazy. It's like it's art. I mean, we take a lot of time with these rhymes. I want you to hear every word. And the great emcees understand

that's important. It's bull's I.

This week, Ice Tea interviews Snoop, Rakim, and a bunch of other famous rappers in his new

documentary. So I just called all my friends about my address book. I said, look, I got an idea. I'm not going to ask you about money, cars, girls, beef, jewelry, none of that. I just want to ask you about the crap. Everybody's like, wow, nobody ever asks those questions. I talked to Greta Gerwig, star of the new movie, Lola Versus. If I can make people feel like you can look like a normal person and still be on screen,

I think that's a good thing.

And Aaron Freeman, formerly of the rock band Wean on the song that changed his life.

All that and more this week on Bullseye.

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Music It's Bullseye. I'm Jesse Thorne. Every week on this show, we ask for recommendations from our favorite culture critics for stuff that's worth your time.

This week, we're talking comic books with our comic book critics, Brian Heater,

Comics columnist for BoingBoing.net, and Alex Zalbin of MTV Geek and the Comic Book Club Live.

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