Check out a really cool article written by the NY Times about the upcoming MTV2 show “Hip-Hop Squares” after the jump!! Shout to Rosenberg and Miss Info!!
MACHINE GUN KELLY was spinning around on his chair. As a player on a game show, MGK (as this young rapper’s nametag read), had far less gravitas than the average TV contestant — but he sure was fun to watch. The bottle of Champagne that he occasionally swigged from one recent Monday afternoon probably had something to do with it.
Time for another question from the show’s host, Peter Rosenberg. “Dr. Seuss or Dr. Dre: who wrote ‘With my Triple-Sling Jigger, I sure felt much bigger,’ †he asked another player, the comic actor and rapper Donald Glover. MGK began to climb out of his chair and onto his desk. Mr. Glover, who raps under the name Childish Gambino, cracked a few penis jokes before getting to the answer. Spoiler: it was Dr. Seuss.
Just another typical taping for “Hip Hop Squares,†a new MTV series that reboots the classic “Hollywood Squares†game show for the YouTube generation. On “Hip Hop Squares,†set to have its debut on MTV2 on May 22, the nine squares of the tick-tack-toe board are filled with a rotating cast of rappers, D.J.’s, comedians and sports and television personalities, and they field questions about music, history, pop culture and the Kardashians.
As on the original series, contestants must agree or disagree with the stars’ answers to score an X or an O, and the stars, who are given the answers beforehand, do their best to entertain or confuse with shtick and attitude.
“Why you got to ask me that, that’s disrespect,†Fat Joe responded to a question about what kitchen utensil a pig’s private parts most resemble. A contestant who wrongly doubted the veracity of an answer provided by Ghostface Killah was quickly chided: “You should always trust the Wizard of Poetry.â€
MTV hopes the series — it has ordered 20 episodes, all filmed at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn — will attract the core audience of what it calls “male-ennials,†networkspeak for young men aged 12 to 34.
