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Harlem Rapper Vinny Cha$e Does Not Have $10,000 To Loan Strangers From the Internet
December 27, 2012 in Sound of the City
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Jean Grae Picks Christmas Sweaters For Talib Kweli, Sean Price and Pharoahe Monch
December 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
Jean Grae Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Jean Grae is one of the world's most talented...
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Rolling Stone's Top 50 Rap Songs of All Time: Six Alternative Number One Picks
December 20, 2012 in Sound of the City
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious FiveRolling Stone recently published a run-down of the top 50 hip-hop songs of all time. After consulting with a panel of 33 journalists, industry figures...
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The Ten Best New York City Rap Albums of 2012
December 19, 2012 in Sound of the City
Sean Price There's been a repetition about year-end New York rap round-ups for a while now. They usually involve noting how the city isn't the commercial powerhouse of hip-hop it...
Top Five Musician-Based Video Games You Can Play In Your Browser Right Now
December 11, 2012 in All Shook Down
Nine Poppy Picks From ?uestlove's Non-Rap Productions
November 29, 2012 in Sound of the City
Welcome To The Quiet Storm: A Primer on Drumless Rap
November 27, 2012 in Sound of the City
Beyond Lil B And His Cat Keke: A History Of Rapping Animals
November 26, 2012 in Sound of the City
Biggie's Manager Wanted To Turn the Constant Deviants Into Rock-Star Rappers (The Plan Involved Pink)
November 21, 2012 in Sound of the City
Rapper IamSu! Explains Five Favorite Songs Off His New Mixtape, $uzy 6 $peed
November 16, 2012 in All Shook Down
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Every Food Reference on Action Bronson's New Album Rare Chandeliers
November 16, 2012 in Sound of the City
Action Bronson Action Bronson released his new Rare Chandeliers album today as a free download! As befits New York's finest rapping gourmand, the project brims with references to foodstuffs. So having...
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"Like Tumblr Times A Million": Chippy Nonstop on Her Summer in NYC
November 15, 2012 in Sound of the City
Chippy Nonstop Chippy Nonstop is fast emerging as Kreayshawn's new BFF. Based in the Bay Area, the diminutive rapstress saw her profile bump earlier this year when Kreayshawn directed the...
Meat Guns, Weed Brownies, and Riesling: Our Conversation With Roc Marciano
November 08, 2012 in Sound of the City
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"You Write From Your Soul and They Try and Make It Into A Minstrel Thing": Our Interview With Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire
November 07, 2012 in Sound of the City
Jamel Shabazz Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire is Brooklyn's rap superstar-in-waiting. He released a new EP (Passion & Power) on Universal yesterday, and we interviewed the venerable eXquire for this week's print...
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We Plugged Ten Rappers' Names Into Juicy J's Stripper Name Generator
November 07, 2012 in Sound of the City
Juicy J Earlier today, Juicy J encouraged his Twitter followers to embrace the full spectrum of the American dream by going out to vote and then discovering their official stripper name...
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Kendrick Lamar Wants Us All To Say "Bitch"
November 01, 2012 in Sound of the City
Kendrick Lamar Last week, Kendrick Lamar had the whole world calling each other a bitch. You may know young Kendrick from his good kid m.A.A.d. city album, which was executive produced by...
Sean Price: "Cornell West Is the Devil"
October 24, 2012 in Sound of the City
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New Orleans Rapper Dee-1 on Meeting Lil Wayne and Playing Basketball with Master P
October 18, 2012 in All Shook Down
Dee-1 performs at the Fillmore this Sunday.Back when he was in high school, New Orleans rapper Dee-1 was working at a local Circuit City store when Lil Wayne came in...
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The Cringe's John Cusimano On The Beatles' Vintage Gear, The Killers' Drummer, And New York's Best Chinese Restaurant
October 15, 2012 in Sound of the City
Leslie Van Stelten Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. New York City-based rockers The Cringe released their...
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Point: Jay-Z Sold Out Brooklyn
October 08, 2012 in Sound of the City
Life & Times Counterpoint: Jay-Z Saved Brooklyn According to Jay-Z's own mythology, at some point in the '90s he used an apartment at 560 State Street in Brooklyn's Boerum Hill neighborhood as...
Top Five Tracks From the New Darkest Before Dawn Bay Area Rap Compilation
October 05, 2012 in All Shook Down
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Smoke DZA on Old School Harlem Dust Smokers, The Canadian Border Patrol, And Whether 2Pac Is Alive In Cuba
October 05, 2012 in Sound of the City
Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar will ask local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Smoke DZA is the Kushed God. Calling Harlem home,...
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Rappers At Award Shows: A History of Violence
October 02, 2012 in Sound of the City
This past weekend saw Rick Ross and Young Jeezy's long-simmering beef boiling over into fisticuffs as the rappers and their entourages went at each other at the BET Hip-Hop Honors...
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Pharoahe Monch On Jean Grae's "Kill Screen," Pop Lockin' Wednesdays, And The Freedom Tower
September 28, 2012 in Sound of the City
Pharoahe Monch Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar will ask local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline.The mighty Pharoahe Monch rolls with nearly 80,000...
Bi-Polar Bear Roams Park Slope
September 19, 2012 in Sound of the City
