Articles Posted June 2011
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Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop
Hip-hop is universal. It seems that emcees realize this more than critics of the culture do. It’s time we all start realizing what hip-hop is, and what it can do. Labeling any kind of people “posers” for enjoying a genre of music limits what that genre can do for the world.
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Bad Meets Evil – Hell: The Sequel (Review)
Em & Royce reunite for an EP for the first time since the Slim Shady LP and the world of hip-hop collectively holds it’s breath. Now that the project is available, does it stack up to the great expectations?
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Blogger Recalls 2008 Feud with Tyler, The Creator
This is a story about meeting the hype before the hype, the famous rapper before the fame. This post details my first interaction with Odd Future leader, Tyler the Creator, before he and his crew…
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Donny Goines – “One by One (Tysha Jones)
One_By_One Donny Goines – “One by One (Tysha Jones)” Donny Goines just unleashed this heartfelt tribute to Tysha Jones, a 16-year-old East Harlem native who was gunned down at Brighton Beach by stray bullets. Says…
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Frank Ocean Working With Jay & Kanye
Apparently, spending studio time with Bey led to an amicable relationship with her husband as well. When asked whay he would say to his five years younger self on his Tumblr Frank Ocean finshed his…
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Amber Rose Taught Yeezy Some Things Too
Or so she says in her recent KING feature, but let’s not pretend we’re checking it for the words, shall we?
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The Black Keys Sue Ad Agency For Using Their Song
Pitchfork reports that the song Tighten Up by The Black Keys was used without permission by ad agency Della Femina Rothschild Jeary and Partners in an ad for Valley National Bank. That’s a very long…
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Halftime Report: The Real cRap Comes At Halftime
That dude over at About.com (ever heard of him?) put up two lists since we’re halfway through the year. It’s a solid collection of songs but there’s a chronic lack of hot sauce and it’s a bit heavy on 3.5′s, so to say. That’s no knock on the list, it just seems that most of the heavy hitters of 2011 will see their release in the second half. At least we hope so.
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Chart Wrap-Up: June 9, 2011
(Sigh) Not the best week for hip-hop. Not on the charts, anyway. Maybach Music Group’s Self Made, Vol. 1 was bounced from the top ten, falling seven spots from 5 to 12. On the bright side,…
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Lupe Fiasco Talking Out Of His Ass Again
We’ve already handled Lupe’s factual inaccuracies when criticizing Obama in his controversial single ‘Words I Never Said‘. Now Wasalu is upping the ante by calling Obama “the biggest terrorist” and saying he does not plan…
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Online Fundraiser For Style Wars Restoration
Anybody who wants to know what Hip Hop is all about should see a film called Style Wars. – KRS-One The legendary Style Wars has been available as a great DVD-release for years now (and…
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Video: Bad Meets Evil – Fast Lane
Some verbal acrobatics and flying fonts from the dynamic duo. As long as they don’t decide to shoot some emo-video for that ‘Lighters‘ dud Marshall and Nickel can’t really go wrong. The Bad Meet Evil…
