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MTV2' 'Hip-Hop Squares' To Star Amber Rose, Method Man, Fat Joe & More!

MTV2 has announced that their new Hip-Hop Squares show will feature the likes of Amber Rose, Wu Tang, Fat Joe and more.

The new MTV series reboots the classic 'Hollywood Squares' game show for the YouTube generation. On 'Hip-Hop Squares,' 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.

It's exactly what it sounds like: rappers, comedians, DJs, and assumedly the Twitter-famous answering trivia questions about pop culture.

Among those tapped for the first season, are Community star Donald Glover, neé Childish Gambino, Machine Gun Kelly, Fat Joe, Method Man, DJ Khaled, Amber Rose and Wu Tang alum Ghostface.
Paul Ricci, the senior vice president for programming and production at MTV2, explained how casting for that unpredictability was key.

“There’s so many charismatic personalities” in hip-hop, Mr. Ricci said. Among the first to sign on was Ghostface Killah, the Wu Tang Clan member, rap eminence and conoisseur of 80's TV.
“I knew it was going to be big,” Ghostface said of the show, sitting on a green-room couch after a taping. “MTV do what they do to the third power, you know what I mean? They do it big.”

Hip-Hop Squares will be premiering on May 22.

Ghostface Killah, Biz Markie, Fat Joe and more join MTV's hip-hop version of Hollywood Squares

Hollywood Squares—America’s favorite game show combining the thrill of playing tic-tac-toe with the excitement of seeing celebrities stacked in boxes—is coming back, and this time it’s been totally hip-hop-ified, for the streets. MTV2 has announced a May 22 launch for Hip Hop Squares, which the below promo promises will take the corny old format involving celebrities answering trivia questions with scripted patter and—RECORD SCRATCH—turn it into a “party” that still has that, but with rappers and an in-house DJ. Among those rappers, as well as those who have worked with rappers, or have occasionally been photographed with rappers, or perhaps own a rap CD: Ghostface Killah, Biz Markie, Fat Joe, Mac Miller, MGK, DJ Khaled, Nick Cannon, Kat Graham, and of course, Jackass star Bam Margera, a ringer who’s presumably on board because of his knowledge of European history or something. Anyway, this finally confirms our oft-argued assertion that Ghostface Killah is the Paul Lynde of hip-hop. Who's laughing now, senior thesis adviser???


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