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VIDEO: Watch Hand Job Academy's New Music Video for 'Lena Dunham'

By: Nov. 24, 2014
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Brooklyn rap trio Hand Job Academy just dropped a new video for their track "Lena Dunham" with Bitch Magazine - check it out below! It's a colorful, mind-blowingly random carnival of circus imagery and colors, featuring badass female performers doing whatever they damn please. From Clara Bizna$$: "I had the line 'Academy, steady cummin on your punim. Finna let it all hang out: Lena Dunham.' in another song that never got recorded. Meg said 'Lena Dunham' in the studio in a funny voice, and it became the chorus of a new song. There is no effect on her voice!" From The Cut to Jezebel to Bullett, Hand Job Academy have been owning the internet with their sick rhymes and dazzling music videos for couple of years now, and this video is no exception to that rule. About Hand Job Academy: Hand Job Academy (or "H.J.A." for the squeamish) is a Brooklyn-based rap collective formed in 2012, comprised of three emcees: AshWednesday, Clara Bizna$$, and UNCLE Meg (who doubles as the group's videographer).
Controversial, outspoken, nasty-but-charming, the Academy raps about periods, pop culture, and queerness as well as traditional hip-hop themes of f***g bitches, getting money, and superiority over enemies.
Straddling the worlds of comedy and hip-hop, H.J.A. have shared stages with the likes of Big Dipper, Nicky Da B, and Cakes Da Killa, as well as opened for Sasheer Zamata, Janeane Garofalo and Kristen Schaal and multiple appearances on the cult public access TV program, The Chris Gethard Show.
The girls released the track "Pop (Tumblr Bitches)" through Tommy Boy Entertainment in mid-2013, and gained widespread attention via "Shark Week," a track about Aunt Flo's monthly visit. "Shark Week" was featured on The Cut, Jezebel, Bust, Bullett, and achieved "Lowbrow Brilliant" status on the New York Magazine Approval Matrix.
Hand Job Academy's debut album #IKEAMONKEY peaked at #22 on the CMJ hip-hop chart. Facebook Twitter YouTube http://www.handjobacademymusic.com/



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