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One glance at Mary J Blige’s Twitter page and you’d swear Fantasia was proofreading her tweets. Yep, there’s plenty where this one came from. Mary, you can do better than this. I believe in you. Please get it together.
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You want Dre to spend less time selling soda and headphones and spend more time on Detox, right? Well, the good doc has heard your prayers. While introducing “Club Beats” last night at the NYC Union Square Best Buy, Dr Dre was asked several questions, including the million-dollar ...
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LeBron James recently proposed a league-wide retirement of Michael Jordan’s No.23 jersey. James says he’ll start by ditching his own No.23 in favor of a new jersey number (6) next season, which inspired last week’s post about the 12 Most Memorable Jersey Changes in NBA History. ...
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Download: Gil Scott-Heron – “Where Did the Night Go”
I was told that I’m no longer allowed to call myself a hip-hop head if I don’t post this awesome video of GSH performing “Where Did The Night Go.” So I threw in the mp3 to be sure. Scott-Heron’s first new album ...
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♣ 15 Funny Star Wars Disney Ads [Gamma Squad]
♣ The 5 dumbest criminals who were foiled by Facebook [Guyism]
♣ Star Trek Alternate Pilot [Pajiba]
♣ 10 Things You Should Never Say to A Gamer Girl [Asylum]
♣ J. Cole & Wale Freestyle, Cure Munchies At Denny’s (Video) [Prefix]
♣ 5 Things ...
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The Streets
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Sleep on the masked one at your own peril. In this promo clip for Unexpected Guests, DOOM warns of “total annihilation” to anyone who sleeps mix album, out now on Gold Dust. Seriously, has anyone heard this yet? Is it worth the bother or should I go ahead and risk annihilation?
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For a while there, it seemed as if
Wale’s phenomenal buzz would catapult him to higher altitudes.
All the planetary bodies were aligned in his favor. His mixtape was the talk of the town. MTV tapped him as a musical host for the VMAs. Jay-Z ...
Why the Wale Experiment Failed
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XXL has unveiled a list of the Best 100 Hip-Hop Sites and guess who made the cut? TheRapUp.com, of course. Hey, what’s that puppy med site doing on our hip-hop list? All kidding aside, it’s an honor to be mentioned alongside the cool kids. If you count from bottom up we’re ...
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In his Geto Boys days Bushwick Bill dropped some of the most disturbing lyrics hip-hop has ever witnessed. He was a walking horrorcore genre. The little big man says he’s now walking with Christ and has a gospel album to show for it.
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Lil Wayne and Lauren London Dispute Baby’s Paternity on Maury Words by Rizoh | Posted on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 at 9:55 am and is filed under hip-hop videos .
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Rihanna returned to the stage in London last night to showcase tracks from her new album, Rated R. Some of her collaborators Young Jeezy and Jay-Z joined her at the listening party. Jay and Rihanna performed “Run This Town” and bla bla bla… Jump in to see what you really came ...
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A moment of silence, please. Cam’ron has officially declared the end of Dipset, a group he helped pioneer in the early 90s. “To keep it 100, Dipset is Dipset, but it’s over and they got to get over it.”
Despite the growing public clamor for more in-fighting among Dipset ...
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Jim Jones
♣ Ladies of All Ages, Shapes and Sizes Still Love Chris Brown [Houston Press]
♣ So This Perfume Commercial Is Gonna Win An Oscar, Huh? [Film Drunk]
♣ First 10 Minutes Of Lil Wayne’s The Carter Sundance Documentary [Real Talk NY]
♣ Funny: Little Potty Mouth Girl [College Humor]
♣ The $250,000 ...
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, “I Wish I Knew Natalie Portman” is one of the best rap songs of 2009. The video treatment is lo-fi, but it’s creative nonetheless. Say it with me, “Less is more.”
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Shakira hypnotizes Weezy with her hips, while Timbaland
mans the board.
Shakira “Gives It Up” to Lil Wayne
Without DJ Screw there would be no Houston hip-hop. Period. Houston’s unofficial nickname is Screwston for a good reason. It all started with Robert Earl Davis Jr. and his desire to slow the world down. He propelled a simple art form to unfathomable heights. Screw left us 9 years ago ...
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The Memphis Grizzlies announced has terminated Allen Iverson’s one-year contract with the team in what it called a mutual agreement. Iverson took an indefinite leave of absence on Nov. 7 after playing only three games with Memphis. The two sides have agreed to terminate his contract and ...
