'Weird Al' Yankovic Drops Mad Rhymes, New Album Title

18 June 2014 | 10:00 am | Staff Writer

Amid promoting his 14th LP, the parodist finds time to get educationally gangsta

It's been an eventful week for legendary parodist-musician "Weird Al" Yankovic. In the few days since announcing that his forthcoming fourteenth studio album would be released to the world on July 15, the Amish Paradise scribe has been steadily re-asserting his presence online, first by appearing in the latest episode of Epic Rap Battles Of History, and then this morning (AEST) releasing the new album's cover art and title -- Mandatory Fun -- via social media.

 

Now in its third season on YouTube, Epic Rap Battles Of History (ERB) has produced some tremendous verbal throwdowns/battles for rhyme supremacy between iconic cultural figures such as The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes and Breaking Bad's Walter White, Miley Cyrus and Joan Of Arc, Mozart and Skrillex, Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali (starring Key and Peele), and Goku and Superman.

For Yankovic's episode, he steps in to the revolutionary stockings of gravity theorist and walking mad hair day Sir Isaac Newton, who is clearly unimpressed with the PBS-dwelling, child-minding ways of Bill Nye The Science Guy (Nice Peter), and starts laying down the law (Newton's Law, what's up) before fellow scientific pop culture icon Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 fame) puts in his two cents and call the battle.

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So what do you think? Did Newton crush Nye like an aluminium can? Did Nye school Newton on how to make science a bearable field of study? Why didn't Neil DeGrasse Tyson automatically win? So many questions...