
Every week on Celebrity Rap Superstar, an odd mixture of C-list stars test their skills (or lack thereof) on the mic, while Rock Daily’s Rock Reality Show Recaps of the series test our skills at analyzing some really awful hip-hop. Here’s our fourth report:
Sixty Minutes in Four Sentences: The six remaining white-belt MCs paired up into duos, with last week’s votes putting Kendra in first place while Perez Hilton slid to last. Sebastian Bach and Shar Jackson teamed up for “Tricky,” while Perez and Kendra rocked out in Adidas gear for Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It,” complete with supersoakers and a very confusing sexual chemistry, and Countess Vaughn bore the brunt of the Wahler curse for Dr. Dre’s “Nuthin But a G Thang.” In the end, the judges singled out Vaughn and Wahler as the weakest pair — sentencing them to a standoff to “Can’t Let You Go” accompanied by guest star Lil’ Mo. Baller Wahler retired the mic halfway through the song, giving it up to Countess Vaughn and looking a little relieved when the judges sent him packing.
8-Mile Moment: Shar Jackson, Sebastian and Sebastian’s hair (looking particularly amazing this week) pulled off the daunting task of performing Run-DMC’s “Tricky” to DMC himself. Nervous in rehearsal, Sebastian “wished [he] could judge DMC singing a Skid Row song.” But the two natural performers shot lines back and forth to each other and even got their grind on — or as much grind as a Goliath and a Bratz doll can get. Da Brat used her turn on the mic to describe their chemistry as totally “banoodles.” Word.
Hip-Hop Hilarity: Jason Wahler’s Reich fell this week thanks to a format change that excluded voter participation. While the loss of Wahler might be ratings suicide for the show, DMC had some kind parting words for the traincrash that just couldn’t, saying simply, “I enjoy watching you.” True, watching Bubba Sparxxx try to teach a spastic Wahler to rap was about as perversely engaging as watching Annie Sullivan coax Helen Keller into the world of communication. The young girls who are among the dozens (maybe half-dozens) of people following the show are heaving a collective sigh — what will happen to Baller Wahler now? But a suddenly wise Jason offered the camera perhaps the only glimmer of a reality-check in a season of alter-realities: “I didn’t know anybody was serious about it. I thought it was kind of a joke.”
The Final Verse: Hugh Hefner must have a very nude underground empire campaigning for the check-your-fire-alarm-to-make-sure-that-the-piercing-screech-is-actually-coming-from-the-TV Kendra Wilkinson for the bunny to have landed the number-one spot this week. What demographics overlap that produce zealous Playboy bunny fans and MTV Celebrity Rap Superstar followers in the same text-voting entity? But Kendra, along with Perez Hilton, Shar Jackson, Sebastian Bach and Countess Vaughn are the five left after Celebrity Rap Superstar’s fourth showdown. Let’s hope Wahler didn’t take the thrill with him. We’ll miss the dance moves that made Showgirls look like The Nutcracker.
[Photo: Brown/Getty]

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