Articles Posted in the Lists Category
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7 Unexpected Collabos By Rappers Outside Of Their Genre
If you’ve grown up in the internet age it might be hard to imagine how segregated genres in pop music once were. Pop, rock and rap were all relegated to their own corners and when…
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5 Modern Rap Albums Reimagined as ‘Pen & Pixel’ Covers
We couldn’t help but wonder how album covers would have have looked if Pen & Pixel visual style, made famous by No Limit Records in the late 90s, never went out of fashion?
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10 Hip-Hop Artists To Follow On Instagram
With the recent successful release of the Android app and the already wildly popular iOS version, you won’t see those square pics with the various filters disappear anytime soon. Especially now that Facebook has paid…
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Holy Week Through Hip Hop
Since Sunday Christians all over the world have been celebrating and remembering the seven days that encapsulate the crux of their faith. It’s no surprise that many in that number are a part of the…
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The Rap Fiend’s Guide To Record Store Day 2012
A little less than three weeks from now is Record Store Day 2012. Former editions had worthwhile releases but not much rap-related material, but this year pulls out all the stops, might be hard to…
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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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10 Rappers Your Mom Loves
If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you probably had a hard time believing there would eventually come an age where moms would be supportive or even actively participating in hip-hop. Things done changed. Here are 10 rappers mom would approve of.
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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…
