Articles Posted in the Lists Category
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The Top 10 St. Ides Commercials
When it comes to artists doing commercials, I’m firmly in Bill Hicks his corner. It’s nigh impossible to do it without turning into a cornball sell-out in the process and it renders every other word…
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“FBI Try And Want Word With This” 10 Wu Quotes On The Feds
Sure, ODB could sound slightly paranoid every now and then. Okay, he sounded paranoid a lot of the time, but is it all paranoia when the feds are really gunnin’ for ya? It’s not like…
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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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11 Great Albums You (Probably) Missed in 2011
We listened to tons of albums in 2011. We loved some, loathed some. Praised the good, dissed the bad. But there are only so many days in a year, so we also missed a few…
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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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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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Thank You, Etta: 5 Awesome Etta James Samples
Etta James has been fighting a bout with both dementia and chronic leukemia for quite some time. Her doctor has now announced there’s nothing left to do for her but pray. Having lost a homie…
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The 9 Best Albums Of 2011 According To Hex Murda
If you have to ask who Hex Murda is and why you should give a f*ck about his opinion you have probably never been on Twitter and slept on some of the finest rap Detroit,…
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Christmas Rappin’: The Top 10 Xmas Rap Songs
It’s that time of the year again when Chris Rea is driving a seemingly endless road to home, British glamrockers Mud are feeling lonely and Mariah Carey wants only you under her tree. While the…
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The Ruler’s Back: Why Hip-Hop Needs The Further Adventures Of Slick Rick
The Ruler’s back! Let the rap world rejoice as one of the most influential emcees to have ever graced the make has unexpectedly returned to spit a full track again, on a Premier beat no less. Reports say 70s and 80s babies may endure slight skippage of the heartbeat today.
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TRU’s World Aids Day Top 10: “Jimbrowski Must Wear A Hat”
December 1st marks World Aids Day, an event that’s unfortunately still necessary as this horrible disease still spreads around the globe. I assume it’s no picnic to find out you’re HIV-positive in a western country…
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7 Clues to the Rap Game If You’ve Just Woken Up from the 90s
Let’s say you’re a hip-hop fan who’s been in a coma since the mid-90s and has just waken up. First off; Welcome back and kudos for mastering the internet right away, you’ve immediately hit on…
