Articles Posted May 2011
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Tech N9ne’s Worldwide Choppers Is On The Map And Off The Charts
So this track dropped sometime last week (in internet time also known as ‘the Paleozoic’) and I’ve been sleeping on it like a fool. Well, consider me woken up. It’s bonkers, bananas and all types of assorted fruits and vegetables.
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Cuban Linx – Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
♣ Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On [Torrent Freak] ♣ Separated at Birth: Edinson Volquez and Antoine Dodson [Athlon Sports] ♣ The Science of Hunger [TIME] ♣ Stem Cell Research Ban Overturned…
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Happy Mother’s Day From Marsha Ambrosius (and TRU)!
Songstress Marsha Ambrosius let loose this dedication to her mom on the appropriate day, happy Mother’s Day to all the mommas in the TRU nation!
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Killer Mike – Bang x3
Here’s a nice belated Freebie Friday for you, courtesy of Killer Mike. This 9 track EP will set off your weekend nicely. Sidenote: Is it because this is an internet release that we’re suddenly back…
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Nicki Minaj – “Super Bass”
“That booty so fake, she wearing butt pads” “Nah, they’re implants” “I can’t stand her voice or the way she keeps on switching it” “That hashtag rap is so played out” “I can’t believe how…
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Just Looking At This Tracklist Makes Me Go F*CK YEAH!
#RANDOMAXE 1. Zoo Drugs 2. Random Call 3. Black Ops feat. Fat Ray 4. Chewbacca feat. Roc Marciano 5. The Hex 6. Understand This 7. Everybody, Nobody, Somebody 8. Jahphy Joe feat. Melanie Rutherford &…
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Video: Raekwon – Butter Knives
One of my favourite joints from Rae’s last album gets the video treatment. It’s a hectic, crisp visual shot in the Park Hill projects that perfectly suits a hard knocking song, why don’t ya click play already.
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Just How Real Are These Hip-Hop Icons?
TRU takes a look at ten icons of rap (in no particular order) and how real they’ve actually kept it.
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J Cole – “Disgusting”
Yes, it’s the new joint from Cole World. Yes, the shit is fucking ridiculous. Pain, hunger, passion synthesized into one vicious ball of fire. It’s going to be a Cole summer, suckballs. Download J Cole…
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Immortal Technique on Bin Laden’s Legacy
Immortal Technique has written an explosive essay on the legacy of Osama bin Laden. It’s long and interesting and nuanced and nerdy. Go read it and weep. Weep for hip-hop, because Tech is one of…
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What Obama Said to Trump
Obama apologizes to Trump for birth certificate delay.
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Cuban Linx – Changeling
♣ Rise Of Lil B And Odd Future Both A Gift And A Curse [Houston Press] ♣ Photo Essay of Ben Westhoff’s Dirty South Book Signing [AustinSurreal] ♣ Top 10 New Rap Albums – May…
