“Alphabet Aerobics” by Blackalicious

"Alphabet Aerobics" is a tongue-twister turned into a sprint. Blackalicious's Gift of Gab runs the alphabet from start to finish in alliterative couplets, while Cut Chemist's beat starts as a lean, mid-tempo thump with an electronic sheen and keeps picking up speed underneath him. It comes from the duo's EP A2G, with Cut Chemist producing and sharing the writing credit with Tim Parker, who wrote the words.

AllMusic's Stanton Swihart singled it out as a concert favorite and a showcase for Gift of Gab, rating Cut Chemist's production as inventive as hip-hop gets and still outgunned by the rapper's verbal gymnastics by the time the letters run out. The dare outlived the record: on October 28, 2014, Daniel Radcliffe took a run at it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon after Fallon challenged him.

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