…Kay. Impressions: I love how this has an absolutely bizarre first 30 seconds or so, it spits up a generic godawful CGI concert, then a narrator steps in to gravely announce that a magical metal was discovered that exclusively works on rap, allowing rappers to use magic. And then it proceeds to ignore literally all of […]
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