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Every rock festival and/or tour needs its token rappers, and the Hot Topic-sponsored Sounds of the Underground junket is no different. But only a sick and twisted individual would choose gore proponent Necro to represent the hip-hop generation to the suburban ‘tweens and mallrats.

Then again, perhaps Necro fits right in amongst Gwar and Every Time I Die. "Metal has shown me a lot of love as a rapper. I don?t get nearly the same love from the hip-hop community," he writes on the Headbangers Ball blog. "In hip-hop, it seems everyone is out to stab each other in the back. Metal is more about music and musicians and the love for riffs and creativity. I have met most of the hip-hop legends and they don?t compare to the coolness of metal legends. But I have always considered myself both metal and hip-hop. I don?t see why there is a separation when both art forms started out super underground, rebellious, and original, and most of the world hated both."

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