Gratuitous Randomness: Joseph Decreux, archaic rapper

The internetz are all about the law of unintended consequences: Once you put it out there, there's no telling where it'll go or in what form it will return. Of course, there were no internetz back in the day of Joseph Decreux, but it's perhaps reasonable to speculate that the...

By Jef Otte

November 24, 2010

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The internetz are all about the law of unintended consequences: Once you put it out there, there's no telling where it'll go or in what form it will return. Of course, there were no internetz back in the day of Joseph Decreux, but it's perhaps reasonable to speculate that the famously eccentric portrait artist would be pleased to see his flamboyant visage turned into one of the more hilarious memes ever to be spewed out of the gaping maw of 4chan -- and because it's Wednesday, the day we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a random compendium of images loosely related to whatever topic we happen to come up with, here you go: eleven images of Joseph Decreux as the archaic rapper. Bonus points if you can decode all the lyrics!

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