Articles Posted by The Rap Up
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A Conversation On Lecrae’s Church Clothes
Download Mixtape | Free Mixtapes Powered by DatPiff.com Sketch: I take it you’ve had a chance to listen through now? Aaron: Yessir. Sketch: Cool. What’s the first thing that comes to mind as you recall…
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The Brain Trust Reviews B.o.B.’s Strange Clouds
Will Bobby Ray shoot for the stars again or will the airplane crash and burn? The BT attempts to find out.
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Street Cinema: 7 Essential Hip-Hop Flicks
While rappers like to evoke the imagery from various movies to color their verses, Hollywood had its fair share of movies flirting with or even wholly embracing hip-hop’s audience and aesthetics. Some are even crucial the parts in the way that our history was shaped. Here are 7 flicks the TRU BT feels no rap aficionado can afford to miss.
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Cuban Linx – Smile A Lil’ Bit
♣ Should Batman Kill the Joker? Perspectives from Five Famous Philosophers [Comics Alliance] ♣ Lauryn Hill Debuts New Song “Fearless Vampire Killer” Live in DC [Okayplayer] ♣ Erykah Badu Responds to Malaysian Concert Ban [Pitchfork]…
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[UPDATE: WE'RE BACK!]
Server Issues At The TRU HQYou might’ve noticed things turning a lot more quiet than usual over here in the past week. That’s because we’re experiencing some technical issues that basically prohibits us from posting new material. Frustration is reaching…
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They Reminisce Over You: Lamont ‘Big L’ Coleman
February 15th of 1999 was a different age. The century was nearing its end, internet hadn’t yet become the ubiquitous presence in the world, the twin towers were still standing and we were blissfully unaware…
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Cuban Linx – All Over
♣ 9 Actors You Never Knew Voiced ’80s Cartoons [Topless Robot] ♣ Forgive But Never Forget: Former Slave Pens Letter To Former Plantation Owner [The Smoking Section] ♣ Tom Brady Used An Illegal Online Stream…
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Cuban Linx – Smokey Winds
♣ RIAA-Ruined Rap: The 20 Worst Platinum Hip-Hop Albums Of All Time [The Smoking Section] ♣ Don’t Like SOPA & PIPA? You’ll Hate ACTA [Access Now] ♣ Roald Dahl, Lucian Freud and 225 Refused To…
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Cuban Linx – Action
♣ January 18 captured: A SOPA blackout gallery [Open Source] ♣ SOPA Explained In Animated GIF Format [The Oatmeal] ♣ SOPA In A Nutshell [Buzzfeed] ♣ 10 Rappers to Watch in 2012 [About.com] ♣ Shyne…
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The 11 Best Rap Albums of 2011
All that’s left for listapalooza 2011 now is the top one, the album list. Since none of us could actually tell what constitutes the difference bewtween albums and mixtapes nowadays (more on that here) we’ve…
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The Top 20 Rap Songs Of 2011
2011 was a year with many faces in this world of rap. We saw emo-rap rise to prominence like never before while the man partly responsible for paving it’s way towards the mainstream dived headfirst…
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BT Review: The Roots – undun
Though their albums have always been cohesive and gravitated more and more to singular ideas over the years The Roots deliver their first concept album with ‘undun.’ The BT goes on a sonic journey to found out if the great expectations are delivered upon.
