Rizoh
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Grafh and Sarah Jay Make a Porno
February 2, 2012 - 8:00 pm
Tags: Grafh, NSFW, Sarah Jay, spotlight, Videos
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Grafh kicks a freestyle while adult entertainer Sarah Jay shakes her assets. In between rapping and ass-shaking, they take turns filming each other’s moves. How ki-yoot.
Photo Op: Rakim and Rakim
January 31, 2012 - 4:03 pm
Tags: ASAP Rocky, Awesome, rakim, spotlight
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Old School and New School. Old New York and New New York. Traditional and Eccentric. The Greatest and The Latest. Rakim x Rakim. Go Giants! [r/o/t: Yamborghini Manteca]
What’s That on Christina Aguilera’s Leg?
January 29, 2012 - 11:40 am
Tags: Christina Aguilera, Etta James, Offbeat, Videos
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At last. Etta James finally got the first-rate tribute she deserves. Thanks to Christina Aguilera who threw down an extraordinarily beautiful, emotionally raw rendition of “At Last” in honor of her idol. Among other things, it’s a beautiful reminder of…
Blindly Firing
January 23, 2012 - 12:41 pm
Tags: Chin Check
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“Rap now is a circus of clowns” – Royce da 5’9″ (“Boom”) Ever wonder where hip-hop is headed? Do you have the courage to really want to find out? Then take a deep breath and…
Video: A$AP Rocky – Wassup
January 23, 2012 - 11:50 am
Tags: spotlight, Videos
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40s. Hoes. A tub full of dead presidents. Why, yes, it’s the video for A$AP Rocky’s “Wassup.” Directed by Rocky in conjunction with the folks at VICE. Ladies and Gentlemen of the illuminati cognoscenti, please…
Beats x TRU Contest: And the Winner is…
January 17, 2012 - 11:24 am
Tags: Gumbo, spotlight, The Rap Up
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On behalf of TRU Nation, I’d like to thank everyone who participated in our Beats x TRU contest. We received a shitton of great responses and I wish we had 20 headphones to give out.…
Watch Uzoy Shoot Zombies in “Fast Forward”
January 10, 2012 - 3:29 pm
Tags: spotlight, Videos
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What would you do if you woke up in some sort of apocalyptic zombie-infested H-town? Run like crazy, right? Not if you’re Uzoy. Watch as the sharpshooting lyricist proceeds to pop a cap in every…
Blindly Firing
January 9, 2012 - 9:00 am
Tags: Chin Check, spotlight
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“Rap now is a circle of clowns” – Royce da 5’9″ (“Boom”) Ever wonder where hip-hop is headed? Do you have the courage to really want to find out? Then take a deep breath and…
The Rap Up x Beats by Dre Giveaway
January 6, 2012 - 9:33 am
Tags: spotlight, The Rap Up
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What up TRU Nation. Happy 2012 to you and yours. We’re in a good mood this year, so we’re giving away a Beats Solo to one lucky Trubian. All you have to do is like…
An Artist I Care About Today: Jack Freeman
January 3, 2012 - 4:00 am
Tags: jack freeman, MUSIC, slow dance, spotlight
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I’m not a huge fan of post-00s R&B. I’m especially allergic to dude singers. They’re boring, uninspired, monotonous. But soul-centric fellas like Aloe Blacc, Anthony Hamilton and, more recently, Jack Freeman are gradually restoring my faith in the genre.
11 Great Albums You Missed in 2011
December 30, 2011 - 5:45 pm
Tags: Lists, spotlight
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A lot of albums dropped this year. 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 quality…
The Evolution of Tex-Mas [Infographic]
December 25, 2011 - 12:25 pm
Tags: Culture, Offbeat
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Did you get a “Merry Christmas” text this morning? It may not be the most unique message, but it was the first text ever sent to a cellphone. And it’s definitely more festive than, say,…
What if yo child get AMMONIA?
December 24, 2011 - 4:01 pm
Tags: Gumbo, Videos
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Yes, every black person in Houston sounds exactly like this. Everyone. I’ve never met a black Houstonian that didn’t talk like this. We are a monolithic group. And yes, we’re all shoe connoisseurs. Look us…
Snap Judgment: The Weeknd’s Echoes of Silence
December 22, 2011 - 7:13 am
Tags: MUSIC, spotlight
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Whoa. Early Christmas present from 21 year-old Canadian powerhouse Abel Tesfaye (known to you as The Weeknd). What we have right here is Echoes of Silence, the third and final installment of a sprawling trilogy.…
Watch Drake’s “The Motto” Video
December 21, 2011 - 10:16 pm
Tags: Gumbo, Music Videos, Videos
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Didn’t this guy just drop an album, like, a month ago? New album or not, Aubrey keeps his hot streak alive with “The Motto,” a digital bonus track off Take Care. It’s a bit unusual…
An Artist I Care About Today: Jhene Aiko
December 17, 2011 - 7:37 pm
Tags: MUSIC, spotlight, Ya Heard?!?!
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There’s a new* star in town and she’s under the watchful eyes of No I.D. Dion has taken upstart Jhene Chilombo (aka Jhene Aiko) under his wings over at Def Jam. The R&B upstart tweeted…
Kobe Bryant’s Wife Files for Divorce
December 16, 2011 - 8:52 pm
Tags: Gumbo, Sports, Ya Heard?!?!
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The marriage between Kobe Bryant and Vanessa Bryant has come to a screeching halt. TMZ has a long overwritten essay about the divorce. Here’s what you really need to know: What happened: “Hard to keep…
Your Tax Dollars at Work: TSA Investigating Freddie Gibbs’ Note Incident
December 16, 2011 - 1:27 pm
Tags: Freddie Gibbs, Tweet Street, Ya Heard?!?!
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Freddie Gibbs was caught with two bags of weed on his way to a show in Denver last night. Luckily for the Indiana rapper, the TSA agent who found it happens to have a sense…
Here’s Teyana Taylor Grinding on Some Lucky Dude
December 16, 2011 - 12:02 pm
Tags: Girls, Videos
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I haven’t seen this video (yet). But I have reason to believe that it shows Teyana Taylor gyrating seductively on a gentleman in Amsterdam. I also believe they drank green tea and played a game…
Download Shad’s Mixtape, Besides
December 16, 2011 - 11:49 am
Tags: Mixtapes
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Today in Music History: Hendrix, Knight, Wonder and a Horribly out-of-tune Piano
December 16, 2011 - 11:21 am
Tags: Culture, spotlight
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December 16, 1966: “Hey Joe,” off The Jimi Hendrix Experience is issued on Polydor. The losers at Decca Records initially passed on the group. December 16, 1967: “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” the monster…
Rukus’ “For the Losers” Video is All Kinds of Awesome
December 16, 2011 - 11:08 am
Tags: MUSIC, Videos
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Rukus is in this video somewhere. I think.
Sample Food 2 (a/k/a The Best Mix You’ll Hear This Week)
December 14, 2011 - 8:30 am
Tags: freebie, Mixtapes, MUSIC, samples, spotlight
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Here’s a good one for you. Sample Food 2: a mix so patently conceived by and for music lovers. Sample Food 2: Completely devoid of filler. Sample Food 2: an endless loop of classic samples…
Cuban Linx: Examination of What
December 14, 2011 - 8:00 am
Tags: Cuban Linx, spotlight
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Today’s top stories, brought to you by my future ex-wife.
DJ Premier and Nas Album Still a Go
December 13, 2011 - 8:22 pm
Tags: spotlight, Videos, Ya Heard?!?!
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I can’t speak for everyone, but when it comes to dream collaborations, a Nas and DJ Premier album rates permanently at the top of my wish list. The idea has been floated before. And though…
From Daddy and Sean: John Lennon’s To-Do List
December 9, 2011 - 8:36 pm
Tags: Gumbo, Offbeat
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John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980. Lists of Note has unearthed a hand-written to-do list Lennon left for his assistant, Fred Seaman, just months before his death. Lennon composed the list on a…
Cuban Linx – Rap Renegades
December 9, 2011 - 1:31 pm
Tags: Cuban Linx, spotlight
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Today’s top stories. Brought to you by two-thirds of the Holy Trinity According to Kanye West. And this has been the nerdiest Cuban Linx intro in the history of Cuban Linx. Clickitty clack.
Kirko Bangz – “Poppa Was a Playa”
November 27, 2011 - 12:35 pm
Tags: H-Town, MUSIC, Videos
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Kirko takes on Nas’ Lost Tapes standout “Poppa Was a Playa.” Oh, you didn’t know Kirko was a Nas fan, huh? See what happens when you judge a book by its cover? Listen up.
Tinie Tempah Feat. J. Cole & Wretch 32 – “Like It Or Love It”
November 25, 2011 - 4:18 pm
Tags: Gumbo, MUSIC
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OK, he’s reloaded. Fresh off his American debut, Tinie Tempah is back in the kitchen whipping up some new heat. He’s already prepping a new mixtape, Happy Birthday, due out soon and “Like It Or…
Black Star – “Fix Up” + “You Already Know” (Updated)
November 25, 2011 - 12:00 pm
Tags: Black Star, Mos Def, MUSIC, spotlight, Talib Kweli
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I liked it when I first saw them kick this thing around at House of Blues sans the vocal polish and later on The Colbert Report. I still like it now that I can actually…