Articles Posted in the Awesome Category
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El-P’s ‘Cancer 4 Cure’ Full Album Stream & Trailers
The third trailer for El-P’s upcoming Cancer 4 Cure hit the web. There’s space drugs and burgers and various degrees of interstellar insanity involving moonrocks. The earlier episodes involved robotics drones being crushed to smithereens…
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San Antonio Spurs + NBA Playoffs + Mobb Deep’s Shook Ones = Awesome
If this promo doesn’t get you hyped for the playoffs I just don’t know what to tell you. #StuckOffTheRealness
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Maureen ‘Ma Dukes’ Yancey Launching A Record Label
Raise it up for Ma Dukes once again! The posthumous Dilla album Rebirth Of Detroit, announced last week, is being released on a new label curated by his mom Maureen ‘Ma Dukes’ Yancey. Besides searching…
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French Rapper Akhenaton Co-Designs Truly Amazing Jersey For Olympique Marseille
Rapper and producer Akhenaton has collaborated with Argentinian-French sculptor, designer and artist Pablo Reinoso to design the 2012/2013 jersey for Olympique Marseille. And it is awesome.
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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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LISTEN: Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (Full Album Stream)
Boom. Here it is. If you need me to tell why you should check out Spin’s full stream and track-by-track commentar of Killer Mike’s new album immediately you clearly have not been paying attention. “I…
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Backstage Pas: Black Milk’s ‘Claps&Slaps’ Tour (Episodes 1-3)
You’d have a hard time finding a more appropriate for a tour headlined by Black Milk than ‘Claps&Slaps,’ the man has, after all, the hardest slapping drums in the rap biz nowadays. During the tour…
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Detroit Record Store Finds Thousands Of Records That Might’ve Been Dilla’s [UPDATED]
The Detroit News is reporting an amazing find by Jeff Bubeck, owner of Detroit record store UHF. In an abandoned storage unit where 7000 to 8000 records that after closer examination he believes is part…
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David Banner Drops New Video And Speaks At Harvard
The ‘The LA Riots: Twenty Years Later’ Conference taking place on April 27 & 28 at Harvard University has invited a guest speaker from the world of rap, none other than the outspoken David Banner:…
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VH1 Behind The Music: Nas (Full Documentary)
The full documentary on the Bob Dylan of rap (let’s meet again in a couple decades if you think that’s merely hyperbole) has landed. Props to Yardie for once again blessing the web with this…
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GZA Narrates Animated Childhood Memories in Pitchfork.tv’s ‘Frames’
Kudos to Pitchfork for doing something as awesome as this. I could use a Saturday morning cartoon show with various Wu-Tang alumni sharing street parables, to go with my cereals, STAT. Sure, some tales might…
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Company Flow Reunites After Live Performances, Working On New Music
You can keep your ‘reunions’ with holographic puppet versions of deceased icons as far as I’m concerned, especially when there are great rap artists living and breathing who decide to keep the reunion going after…
