MC Lars pays tribute to The Simpsons with “The Ballad Of Hans Moleman”

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MC Lars has long been the king of the (otherwise fairly non-existent) laptop punk rap game, spitting about everything from Fugazi to Hot Topic. The rapper’s latest video, “The Ballad Of Hans Moleman,” is perhaps his nerdiest and most pop culture-centric yet. Premiering exclusively on The A.V. Club, the clip is for a track off Lars’ forthcoming The Zombie Dinosaur LP and finds the rapper waxing rhapsodic about the weird, prune-like old man from The Simpsons. With references to Artie Ziff, footballs to the groin, and that time Mr. Burns thought Moleman was a leprechaun, “The Ballad Of Hans Moleman” is a tribute to The Simpsons at its oddest.