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Lana Del Rey's Top Six Hip-Hop Connections
June 07, 2012 in Sound of the City
She's no longer an Internet phenomenon, but the moody singer Lana Del Rey has turned into something of an infatuation for rappers, who are more than eager to collaborate and...
Q&A: Hot Sugar On Associative Music, Working With The Roots, And Sampling A Rat Who Played Keyboard
May 24, 2012 in Sound of the City
Q&A: David Banner Talks Sex, Drugs And Video Games In Hip-Hop
May 23, 2012 in Sound of the City
The Five Most Priceless 45s In Kenny Dope's Collection
May 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
Six Very Important Takeaways From Big K.R.I.T.'s Album Listening Party
May 16, 2012 in Sound of the City
IamSu! on KILT, Getting an Invite From E-40, and Why He Wants Lil B to do an "Up" Remix
May 15, 2012 in All Shook Down
Q&A: DJ Spinna On Perception Records, New York Soul In The '70s, And Why A Tribe Called Quest Sampled "Submission" Better Than Anyone
May 11, 2012 in Sound of the City
Q&A: Booker T. Jones On His First Visit To New York, Scoring Films, And What Working With Kanye West Might Be Like
May 10, 2012 in Sound of the City
Bay Area Rap Mogul Stretch on the DEA Tying Mac Dre's Label to an Ecstasy Bust
May 09, 2012 in All Shook Down
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Q&A: DJ Red Alert On Kiss-FM, The Bridge Wars, And Breaking "Rappin' Duke"
May 03, 2012 in Sound of the City
In October of 1983, Kool DJ Red Alert broadcast his first rap radio show on Kiss-FM. It would soon bloom into an essential listening session for hip-hop junkies, a jump-off...
Q&A: Blockhead On Public Access, The Baby Show, And Learning About Sex From Channel J
May 03, 2012 in Sound of the City
Q&A: AWKword On Occupy Wall Street, The Power Of Protest Music, And Hearing N.W.A. For The First Time
May 01, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School
April 25, 2012 in Sound of the City
Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that...
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Six Great '90s NYC Rap Demos
April 24, 2012 in Sound of the City
"Please listen to my demo!" That particular plea may no longer be heard coming from plucky upcoming rappers, what with the Internet age and all, but there's an undeniable pull...
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Q&A: Big Baby Gandhi On Rap Battling At Nine, Rebelling In The Facebook Era, And Getting Das Racist's Attention With Negative YouTube Comments
April 16, 2012 in Sound of the City
"Gandhi Mandhi was the name that they called him/ Now the honeys call me Young Kama Sutra/ Old white people real mad 'cause I'm the future." That cheeky rap is...
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The Sieben Greatest Kraftwerk Samples
April 13, 2012 in Sound of the City
Kraftwerk fever might have ruffled many of you the prickly way, what with the Great Unobtainable Online Tickets Ruse blighting the band's series of eight chronological album-by-album shows at MoMA...
Live: Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience Crashes In Brooklyn
April 05, 2012 in Sound of the City
The Top Six Game Show Appearances By Rappers
April 05, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Children Of The Night Wave The New York Flag On Queens... Revisited
March 30, 2012 in Sound of the City
"I find myself walking to work and I can see the sun rise right over Queens Boulevard, and I say to myself, why hasn't Queens gotten a trophy in a...
Q&A: DJ Rob Swift Looks Back On His Work With The Late Roc Raida
March 22, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Blondie (12) And Nas (4) Tangle In SOTC's March Madness
March 22, 2012 in Sound of the City
Last round, Blondie safely navigated past Hollis, Queens icons Run-DMC and the trio's aggressive, raw rap sound. This time, the Debbie Harry-fronted new wave ensemble faces off against Nas, hip-hop's...
Roach Gigz's Producer CLoz Used to Sell Beats for $10
March 22, 2012 in All Shook Down
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The Wu-Tang Clan (4) Tries To Overcome Pete Seeger (5) In SOTC's March Madness
March 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
Disheveled musicians unite! After zipping by The Rapture in the opening round with his unkempt folksy style, Pete Seeger now faces Staten Island's original grimy, dirt-sodden rap troupe, who themselves...
Party Supplies' Five-Step Guide To Making Music From YouTube
March 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Rakim (6) And The Notorious B.I.G. (3) Battle In A SOTC March Madness Meeting Of Hip-Hop Greats
March 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
?Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the...
