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Talking about Girl Talk, The New York Times feels it’s necessary to explain that hip-hop uses sample loops, but then throws down “At times the album sounds like a cleverly programmed K-tel compilation.” Aren’t more readers familiar with how rap works than the TV compilation album parent company?

Girl Talk is already planning his final show: a 2012 Mayan ruins party to last 24 hours. “It’s the day when solids become liquids and liquids become plasmas,” he says, and I have no idea what that means. —Rosecrans Baldwin, Aug. 14, 2008