Articles Posted September 2009
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Boston Gets RickRolled by MIT
In keeping up with a long tradition of MIT hacks, pranksters installed musical notes on The Great Dome on the morning of September 11th, 2009. They were the first seven notes of Rick Astley’s “Never…
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Age Ain’t Nuthin’ But A Number
With the release of Jay-Z’s Blueprint 3, the internet and the streets have been asking the same question over and over again – is Jay-Z too old to be rapping? This isn’t a new question…
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DJ Cheeba-The Reels of Solid Steel
DJ Cheeba uses two turntables and Serato’s Video-SL plug-in for Scratch Live to enable video controlled and manipulated by vinyl to achieve some stunning effects. From the page: “Cheeba makes the most of this technology…mixing,…
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Taylor Swift ft. T-Pain – Thug Story (Seriously)
Don’t get it twisted, T-Pain and his chain are here for the money.
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The Crucifixion of Van Jones
For the uninitiated, Van Jones was forced to relinquish his position as Obama’s green jobs czar after Glenn Beck and his ilk did an excellent job of painting Jones as a communist, anti-American racist member…
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Meet the World’s First Hip-Hop Scientologist
Move over Will Smith, Doug E Fresh’s Scientology-penis is bigger than your Scientology-penis. “I am the first hip-hop artist to do it,” Doug E Fresh told Essence magazine in a recent interview.
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Cuban Linx – Player’s Ball
♣ The strangest, most beautiful sport you’ve ever seen [NY Daily News] ♣ Hip Hop Responds to Van Jones Drama [SF Weekly] ♣ J.Cole Meets Jay-Z’s ‘Secret Society’ [Morethanhiphop] ♣ Hip-Hop Needs to Grow up…
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TRU Brain Trust Reviews Blueprint 3
They say, whoever they are, that the third time is the charm. Keeping that age old aphorism in mind, let’s be real- we’ve all heard rumblings, promos, singles and commentary about Jay-Z’s latest release, The…
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Would You Drink This?
A producer from All Things Harlem visited a Target store on 225th St., in New York City and made an interesting discovery. In the beverage aisle he found a brand of soda with a black…
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The One Where Michael Steele Makes Me Yell at My TV
Jay Smooth rips RNC head honcho Michael Steele for ripping a health care reform advocate at a Howard University townhall meeting. I swear it’s always at Howard.
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Female Rapper Wins Britain’s Top Music Award
Speaking of femcees, London’s own Speech Debelle has won Britain’s Barclaycard Mercury Prize for her Speech Therapy LP. The album was inspired by her experience in the streets as a homeless teen. Debelle knocked out…
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The Femcee is Very Much Alive
R.I.P. to the femcee? Really? What are people listening to these days? Last I checked, Jean Grae was still very much alive. Lyte is still going. Hell, even Latifah can still hang when she’s focused.…
