PaRappa battles his way to American PSPs July '07

We knew we just had to believe. Finally, Sony has announced that the PSP port of legendary 2.5D rapping dog simulator, PaRappa The Rapper, is coming to North American PSPs. Yes, it's the same PSP port that we got our hands-on at the Tokyo Game Show last September, which means the same levels, same jams, and the same kooky characters (yeah, we're talking about you Chop Chop Master Onion) as the 1997 PSone original.

But Sony isn't about to play you like that, they've gone and added some juicy PSP features to the rhythm gaming OG: four-player head-to-head rap battles (oh snap!); wirelessly share a demo level (Instructor Mooselini's rap please); and use infrastructure mode to nab eight additional playable remixes. No Game 3.0-style user remixes, or are we saving that action for Beats?

PaRappa em-eye-eckses flour into the bowl on North American PSPs this July. You gotta believe!