Articles Posted December 2011
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Happy Holidays From The TRU Nation!
…and from Santa Rozay too!
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The Year in Review: 2011 TRU Hip-Hop Awards
Time waits for no man, with Christmas waiting in the wings to let loose the smell pine and way too much food and drink it’s already time to unveil the winners of the TRU Awards 2011. Some new categories, some old ones, but all rightfully earned. Let’s go!
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Common and Pusha T Got Some Sweet Beef For Drake
By now you might’ve heard about the beef stewing between Common and Drake. Mr. Sense confirmed the rumors to Sway and Pusha T still has a chip on his soldier about Drizzy’s sweater swagger as…
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Snap Judgment: The Weeknd’s Echoes of Silence
Whoa. Early Christmas present from 21 year-old Canadian powerhouse Abel Tesfaye (known to you as The Weeknd). What we have right here is Echoes of Silence, the third and final installment of a sprawling trilogy.…
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Watch Drake’s “The Motto” Video
Didn’t this guy just drop an album, like, a month ago? New album or not, Aubrey keeps his hot streak alive with “The Motto,” a digital bonus track off Take Care. It’s a bit unusual…
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One On One With J-Zone
With precious few days left to get your Christmas shopping done, here’s a helpful tip for that hip-hop fan with a sense of humor on your list: J-Zone wrote a book. TRU spoke to the former Old Maid Billionaire rapper turned book scribe and talked about the highs of touring, the lows of badgering for your buck and learning to embrace failure
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T.I. – ‘F*ck Da City Up’ Mixtape Trailer (Video)
That dude with the reality show is gearing up a mixtape set to drop on 1-1-2012. Setting my general distaste for ‘reality’ shows aside I’m cautiously optimistic towards da kang’s new output. What I’ve been…
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Justin Bieber freestyles a quasi-Christian rap over Biggie’s classic “Who Shot Ya?” beat
So… the Innuhnets are goin’ nuts over this freestyle Justin Bieber dropped for Las Vegas’ Hot 97.5 over the “Who Shot Ya?” instrumental the Notorious B.I.G. made famous. “Beliebers” everywhere already know the kid likes…
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TRU Presents: Rap’s Naughty & Nice List 2011
Wow. Another year come and gone. “Naughty and Nice List 2010″ was my second ever post for TRU. One year later, I”m officially a member of TRU and legally able to slur my words. No…
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LISTEN: Apathy – A Wonderful X-Mas Time
De La Soul’s Plug One & Two are no longer the only rappers to lace Paul McCartney’s Christmas jam with some verses. Scoop De Ville sampled it for Apathy to spit a wishlist over that…
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DOWNLOAD: The Audible Doctor – 2011: Year Of The Audible Doctor Remix (EP)
To be honest, I hadn’t even heard of Audible Doc before 2011. This year he managed to catch me ear on two notable projects though, Tragedy Khadafi’s Thug Matrix 3 and Soul Khan’s Pursuance, so…
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Classics Revisited: Lord Finesse & Mike Smooth – Funky Technician
These days, the word “classic” is thrown around as loosely as a Nerf ball at a picnic. However, we at TRU consider classics to be something which stand the test of time and have a…
