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Chris Higgins
Klinginem – Rapping Eminem Songs in Klingon (Seriously)
by Chris Higgins - October 26, 2009 - 1:39 PM

So here’s a guy who goes by the name Klinginem, rapping the Eminem jam “Without Me” in Klingon (I’m sorry, tlhIngan Hol for you native speakers). This is possibly the nerdiest thing I’ve seen all year. The one thing I’ll say for it is that it handily demonstrates that the Klingon language is indeed fully-developed…once you can rap in a language, it’s legit. Enjoy the video, including lots of performance shots of Klinginem and his crew. (I would post the Klingon word for ‘crew’ but all the online translation sites I could find are on the fritz at the moment.)

(Via Blogtown PDX).

Note: updated spelling of the rapper’s name per commenter Andrew’s suggestion. No need to bring out the bat’leth here.

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Comments (8)

  1. That just made my Monday!! Thanks!

    posted by megan on 10-26-2009 at 2:20 pm

  2. this is incredible. it’s amazing what some people do with their spare time… :D

    posted by Sarah on 10-26-2009 at 3:27 pm

  3. Hilarious…and i’m not even a trekkie!

    posted by Emily on 10-26-2009 at 4:37 pm

  4. I laughed so hard that I started to cry. Amazing.

    posted by Mateo on 10-26-2009 at 6:22 pm

  5. I’m strangely impressed… and this is going to all my friends who tell me that *I’m* way out there.

    posted by ethibaul on 10-26-2009 at 6:34 pm

  6. In the video the name is “Klenginem” not Klingenem. You are dealing with folks that split hairs over the difference between “trekkies” and “trekkeres” for Pete’s sake. A typo like this might seriously hurt someone’s nerdy little feelings. They might get the impression that MF staff don’t take this artist seriously.

    posted by Andrew on 10-27-2009 at 3:46 am

  7. @Andrew: Do you/how can you take this artist seriously. Don’t get me wrong, I give the guy his props for translating, but c’mon.

    I have so many questions:
    Is there anyone fluent enough to appreciate these Klingon raps fully?

    How does Eminem feel about this?

    How big is the following for this particular act?

    Is it available on iTunes?

    posted by Shash on 10-27-2009 at 4:17 pm

  8. Actually my friend can fluenty speak in Klingon and Binary. So indeed there are some people out there that can appreciate it. Me, I just have my Kingon dictionary.

    posted by Jenn on 11-4-2009 at 12:53 am

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