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Jay-Z (1) And A Tribe Called Quest (8) Battle It Out In SOTC's March Madness
March 20, 2012 in Sound of the City
Will Half Naked And Almost Famous Turn Machine Gun Kelly Into Bad Boy's New Biggie?
March 20, 2012 in Sound of the City
Q&A: 4th Pyramid On Touring With Too $hort And Wu-Tang, Hooking Up With Cosmo Baker, And The Makings Of A Good Hypeman
March 20, 2012 in Sound of the City
Honor Roll Crew Singer 1 O.A.K. on His Debut Solo Album, Studio Mischief, and Covering Wham!
March 19, 2012 in All Shook Down
Nine Culinary Ventures By Hip-Hop Artists
March 15, 2012 in Sound of the City
V-Nasty's Doin' Numbers: Abrasive, Odious -- and Totally Enjoyable
March 13, 2012 in All Shook Down
Live: Stalley's New Mixtape Gets Lost In The Clutter At The Beats By Dre Store
March 13, 2012 in Sound of the City
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12 Tracks, Two And A Half Hours: Sound Of The City's Mixtape Of Long Rap Songs
February 28, 2012 in Sound of the City
The saga continues... for 10:24. Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting...
Q&A: Maino On Growing Up In Bed-Stuy, Hearing Rumors About Himself, And His Song That Isn't About Lil Kim
February 27, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Head Bangers And Hardcore Hits: A Ten-Track Hit Squad Collection
February 23, 2012 in Sound of the City
via MySpaceTail-end golden era rap fanatics rejoice—the Hit Squad is back! Emerging after Long Islanders Erick Sermon and Parish Smith found fame as EPMD, the Hit Squad drafted in the...
Porter Robinson's Five Favorite Things About San Francisco
February 20, 2012 in All Shook Down
The Evolution of A-Trak: From Scratch Nerd To Dance Tastemaker In Five Steps
February 16, 2012 in All Shook Down
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Hip-Hop's Top Ten Aretha Franklin Samples
February 16, 2012 in Sound of the City
Rap royalty loves the Queen of Soul. Or, at least, some very prestigious hip-hop types have found the intimate grooves of Aretha Franklin's discography to be fine and fertile fodder...
Lauryn Hill's Top 5 Career-Torpedoing Tendencies
February 14, 2012 in West Coast Sound
The Park on Drinking Baileys with Wallpaper., Appearing on Carson Daly's TV Show, and What Song They'd Play for Mitt Romney
February 10, 2012 in All Shook Down
Is Syl Johnson Rich Off of Rap Samples? He Says So
February 09, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Veteran Rappers: Do You Really Need to Continue Making New Records?
February 02, 2012 in All Shook Down
Instrumental Hip-Hop Sucks. Ban It Forever.
January 31, 2012 in All Shook Down
S.F. Trumpeter Bill Ortiz on Playing with Souls of Mischief, Covering Gil Scott-Heron, and Touring with Sheila E.
January 26, 2012 in All Shook Down
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Q&A: Too $hort On Not Getting A Lot Of Love In New York, His Aversion To Mixtapes, And Working With Biggie
January 25, 2012 in Sound of the City
"They tell me to get my old ass off the mic, but every time my old ass gets on stage I put on a hell of a show!" So promises...
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Blue Ivy Carter: Top Five Worst Examples of Rap Nepotism
January 11, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Found this hereBarely two days after his and Beyonce's baby Blue Ivy Carter was born, Jay-Z put her on a song. "Glory" is a tribute to his new daughter, who...
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Keepaway Add Just The Right Amount Of Sweetness To "Black Flute"
January 10, 2012 in Sound of the City
Bek AndersenA partial list of comparisons the Brooklyn-based trio Keepaway has received since it released "Yellow Wings" in 2010: Timbaland; The Strokes; Gang Gang Dance; any number of Ethiopiques compilations;...
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Oakland Rapper Beeda Weeda Borrows Too $hort's Persona, Picks His Five Favorite Songs
January 10, 2012 in All Shook Down
Beeda Weeda. "I'm kinda like taking the Too $hort persona and putting my own stamp on it," says Oakland-based rapper Beeda Weeda about his upcoming project. Titled Bass Rock Babies, the...
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Top Five White Trash Rap Anthems
January 05, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Yelawolf?As Eminem's protege, the Alabama-raised Yelawolf is the latest rapper to tap into a niche you could politely call white trash rap. His debut album on Shady Records, Radioactive, openly...
