Articles Posted in the Spotlight Category
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ZZ Top Covers Hip-Hop Classic “25 Lighters”
We at TRU normally refrain from posting commercials, but this is one that may be too good to pass up now that the “Little Ole Band from Texas” has covered a certified Southern classic. In…
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Classics Revisited: Fugees – The Score
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…
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Yeah, That’s Right, My Name Is Yauch: Remembering MCA
This whole piece was mapped out in my head when I was in the shower this morning, but when I went and sat behind my keyboard to put words to the screen I fell silent.…
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5 Possible Pitches For ‘Cash Money Films’
Cash Money head honcho Baby has announced the latest venture in his business empire: Cash Money Films. As we’ve learned from the exploits of Cam’Ron, Master P and State Prop, this is virtually destined to…
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VH1 Behind The Music: Notorious B.I.G. (Full Documentary)
VH1 comes through with another ‘Behind The Music’ on a hip-hop icon, this time turning the spotlight on Biggie. It’s hard to argue many emcees more worthy o fthe accolades than BIG, and even though…
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#FACEPALM BARS Vol.1: Rap Lines Too Awful To Ignore
We all have our guilty pleasures. Joints we know to be objectively bad, dumb songs, that we can’t help but enjoy. Hey, if the beat knocks, it’s hard to deny the appeal, right? There’s nothing…
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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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Classics Revisited: 2Pac – All Eyez On Me
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…
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7 Things You Should Know About Lecrae’s Upcoming Don Cannon Mixtape
Here are seven things we now know about the upcoming mixtape from Lecrae (the Christian rapper you may have seen on last year’s BET Hip Hop Awards cypher or heard on Statik Selektah’s Population Control…
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Rizoh’s Radio 80: Encore
Back like cooked crack.
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Movie Review: The Avengers
Can a movie generations have been waiting for ever since Jack Kirby took pencil to paper in the 60s deliver on expectations of Himalayan heights like that? Find out below, but be warned, some mild spoilers follow (We’ll try our best to keep it at a minimum).
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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?
