Chaucer raps

The lead story on Yahoo! this morning was a puff piece about a rapper/medievalist who has released a hip-hop version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Canterbury Rap. This smacks of trying too hard to me ("look kids, Chaucer is cool!" "Gee whillikers, Mister, that is truly bangin'"), but it might be fun. What do you all think?