Jan 31st
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| Toe taggin' and swaggin'.Between the Mayans' alleged predictions of humanity's annihilation and the upcoming presidential election, 2012's shaping up to be one hell of a year. Colton-bred emcee 40 Glocc's planned his own day of reckoning - and we're only still in January! Tweaking the acronym that's damn-near synonymous with the city of Compton, G-Unit [...] |
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6 days, 17 hours ago. Jan 29th
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| Ready to die.If you read Pitchfork or consider yourself a hipster (or an anti-hipster), you've probably got strong feelings towards Lana Del Rey. That's the narrative I've been seeing online throughout the past year in regards to Lana Del Rey's merits as an artist. Either you love her or hate her; and if you hate [...] |
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| 7 days ago. Jan 29th
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| Ready to die.If you read Pitchfork or consider yourself a hipster (or an anti-hipster), you've probably got strong feelings towards Lana Del Rey. That's the narrative I've been seeing online throughout the past year in regards to Lana Del Rey's merits as an artist. Either you love her or hate her; and if you hate [...] |
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| 7 days ago. Jan 23rd
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| Amidst the chaos of Megaupload, Fileserve and Filesonic getting the axe, you know what's keeping me from losing my mind? My external hard drive(s). I had several GBs of files uploaded on my Megaupload account and even more on Filesonic. They're all inaccessible now. But my TB+ hard drives? Well. You'll have to pry them [...] |
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| 14 days ago. Jan 22nd
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| The government's shutdown of Megaupload has led to a domino effect which hit close to home today: Filesonic has disabled its file-sharing feature. In essence, Filesonic now offers nothing more than personal cloud storage. This really sucks because I spent a sizeable portion of the year uploading my mixtapes, sample sets and volumes of The [...] |
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| 14 days ago. Jan 22nd
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| The government's shutdown of Megaupload has led to a domino effect which hit close to home today: Filesonic has disabled its file-sharing feature. In essence, Filesonic now offers nothing more than personal cloud storage. This really sucks because I spent a sizeable portion of the year uploading my mixtapes, sample sets and volumes of The [...] |
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| 14 days ago. Jan 1st
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| Rappers, rappers. You don't need to add a Parental Advisory sticker to your cover art. It's not necessary. There's nothing cool about tagging your own artwork with fascist government propaganda. First of all, it kinda goes without saying that the words "fuck" and "shit" will be uttered once or (more likely) several times throughout your [...] |
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| 1 month, 6 days ago. Dec 31st
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| What you about to witness is my thoughtsJust my thoughts, manRight or wrongJust what I was feeling at the timeUgh!25. E-40 - Revenue Retrievin’: Graveyard Shift24. Curren$y & Alchemist - Covert Coup23. Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Well-Done22. Oddisee - Rock Creek Park21. The Roots - undun20. Game - The R.E.D. Album19. M.O.P. - [...] |
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| 1 month, 7 days ago. Dec 9th
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| In the wake of ?uestlove's not so subtle diss of Republican candidate Michele Bachmann, Professor Brian Sims examines who won the battle and the larger war that Hip Hop is waging. |
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| 1 month, 29 days ago. Nov 27th
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| M.O.P. - Sparta (Produced by Snowgoons)Label: Babygrande RecordsRelease Date: November 22, 2011"It's 300 minus 298" The Brownsville sluggers are back, notwithstanding very little fanfare (not to overlook their Live At HeadQCourtez appearance and this must-hear episode of The Combat Jack Show Featuring Dallas Penn). The latest album by Billy Danze and Lil Fame, Sparta, features [...] |
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| 2 months, 11 days ago. Nov 27th
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| M.O.P. - Sparta (Produced by Snowgoons)Label: Babygrande RecordsRelease Date: November 22, 2011"It's 300 minus 298" The Brownsville sluggers are back, notwithstanding very little fanfare (not to overlook their Live At HeadQCourtez appearance and this must-hear episode of The Combat Jack Show Featuring Dallas Penn). The latest album by Billy Danze and Lil Fame, Sparta, features [...] |
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| 2 months, 11 days ago. Oct 22nd
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| My love/hate relationship with "lists" lives on... For the past few days, LA Weekly had been slowly rolling out a list of the "top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time", collaborated upon and compiled by scribes Jeff Weiss, Ben Westhoff, Rebecca Haithcoat and Ian Cohen - or as I'm going to call them [...] |
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| 3 months, 17 days ago. Nov 2nd
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| I'd make a pretty good dictator... Woody Allen knows what's up.I'm certainly not as enthusiastic to vote as I was in 2008. And I can also be a cynical douche from time to time (read: most of the time), but voting actually does make a difference. If you'd rather send Meg Whitman to Sacramento than [...] |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 21st
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| Maino puts a price tag on fame in his brand new track. |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 21st
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| I've found you've got to look back at the old things and see them in a new light.~ John Coltrane, 1926-1967Today marks the 50th anniversary of John Coltrane's initial session for his landmark album My Favorite Things. Featuring McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Steve Davis on bass, Coltrane's newly-formed quintet recorded [...] |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 19th
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| Bob Dylan - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)This one's only for the Dylan freaks (I dare y'all to purchase the $100+ vinyl box set). If hearing sparse, stripped-down Bob Dylan tracks sends a thrill up your leg, you're gonna wanna give this a listen. I'm particularly fond of Demos' version [...] |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 15th
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 15th
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| After "Lasers" Gets A Release Date, Warner Music Group CEO Lyor Cohen plays Lupe's new single at Fiasco Friday. |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 12th
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| 7L & Esoteric, Cunninlynguists' Kno, The Artifacts' El Da Sensei, L.A. Symphony's Pigeon John make for an underground Rap week, with Lil Wayne's physical CD. |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 12th
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| Damn! A whole bunch of records are dropping today, many of which are worth your time. If you're not a cheap-ass then some of them are also worth your money, too. I haven't listened to all the albums hitting shelves today (yeah, I'm a music p1r@t3, but I have my limits), so I'll just [...] |
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| 1 year, 3 months ago. Oct 5th
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| It's been a while since I dropped one of these posts. Every once in a while, someone'll ask me what I'm listening to at the moment. Good question, I'll say. Stalkers are always advised to camp out at my Last.fm page, frenetically clicking refresh on their browsers like a tweaking meth addict. To the rest [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 30th
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| Like we always do about this time...25. Black Milk - Deadly Medley (feat. Royce Da 5'9 & eLZhi)The first single from Black Milk's Album of the Year finds three of Detroit's finest playing three card molly over a hypnotic banger. The trio's flows mesh well together, leading me to imagine a scenario in which Royce [...] |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 30th
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| MTV pulls out all the stops for the second collaboration between Slim Shady and Weezy F. Baby. |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 29th
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| The G-Unit general talks his collaborations with the likes of Kanye West, Swizz Beatz and Pharrell that would make his fans "bug out on." |
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| 1 year, 4 months ago. Sep 6th
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| No words for this track. Choppa Choppa Down. |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 18th
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| So I’m sure you’ve heard by now that Fat Beats is closing up shop. While their label and online store will still be as active as ever, it pains me to see these landmark sites vanish into the history books. While I’ve never stepped foot into the New York location – and sadly, I never [...] |
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| 1 year, 5 months ago. Aug 8th
| The Golden Era is full of tracks that we love, many of which are considered type corny today. These tracks stay with us for sentimental reasons but looking back you can see how it would be somewhat corny. Some have weak lyrics, some are downright embarrassing like...We can say anything and still get propsLike "Eek", [...] |
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| 1 year, 6 months ago. Aug 8th
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| "In the bullshit department..." © George CarlinWhat's up with all these rap blogs joining the Complex "network." It's bad enough I've got a problem with all those annoying bars on the bottom of websites, but this shit? Nah. I still fux with The Smoking Section and a few other sites that are down with Uproxx. [...] |
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| 1 year, 6 months ago. 