ASAP Rocky

A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown Have a Shot at Realizing Their Dreams -- with Kathy Griffin

By Nick Lucchesi Thu., Feb. 14 2013 at 4:25 PM
Categories: ASAP Rocky, Danny Brown, Geto Boys, Harlem

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Kathy Griffin? The lady from Family Guy? No, the nurse from the "Slim Shady" video.
A heartfelt collection of our favorite music stories of the week, as picked by Voice music writers, including a special Valentine's Day meeting between A$AP Rocky, Danny Brown and ... Kathy Griffin, perhaps best known to the two rappers as the old nurse from Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" video.

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Jugga-luh-oh

Geto Boys, Danny Brown, Bobcat Goldthwait Playing the 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos

By Camille Dodero Fri., Jul. 13 2012 at 7:00 AM
Categories: Danny Brown, Gathering of the Juggalos, Geto Boys, Insane Clown Posse, Jugga-luh-oh, Juggalo of the Day, Post-Irony, Tech N9ne, Twiztid

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Never forget 2011

If the Internet meme machine has seemed a little slow this summer, it's probably because the Gathering of the Juggalos is less than a month away and Insane Clown Posse's industrious label, Psychopathic Records, has yet to release 2012's endlessly watchable Juggomercial. That's already more than a month later than last year, when the 27-minute "earf"-bound spaceship scene revealed the nearly complete line-up on June 3. But this time around, the Midwestern company has not only been preoccupied with the upcoming release of ICP's next studio album, The Mighty Death Pop, but its Michigan headquarters just endured a days-long power outage. So even though we haven't been able to watch Sugar Slam narrate this year's bill, a handful of booked performers have separately announced their Cave-In-Rock commitments. This amounts, as usual, to an amazingly random list of names that would basically never appear together anywhere else in the entire universe.

So far:

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The Top 15 Hip-Hop Songs About Police Misconduct

By J. Pablo Fri., Jun. 1 2012 at 9:00 AM
Categories: Dead Prez, Geto Boys, J Dilla, J. Pablo, KRS-One, LL Cool J, Lists, N.W.A., Public Enemy, Tupac

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Though artists like Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Baby Huey spoke on police corruption, it wasn't until the dawn of the rap era that the message in the music began to convey the anger and frustration of people who had been systematically disenfranchised and brutalized since the United States was founded. In honor of the spotlight on the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy—which has particularly affected men of color ages 18 to 24—SOTC decided to compile a playlist. Get your bail money together and let your lawyer know a riot charge is on the horizon—here are 15 songs that address abuses by police departments actross the country.

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Hip-Hop's Top Ten Otis Redding Samples

By Phillip Mlynar Fri., Jul. 22 2011 at 8:00 AM
Categories: Big Daddy Kane, Cappadonna, Das EFX, EPMD, Geto Boys, Ghostface Killah, Lists, Marley Marl, Otis Redding, Phillip Mlynar, UMCs

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"Otis" fever is in full effect, thanks to the Otis Redding-sampling song from Jay-Z and Kanye West's much-ballyhooed Watch The Throne project leaking Wednesday night. The track's production, based around a slick chop of Redding's "Try A Little Tenderness," might be the most impressive thing about the song, what with Jay-Z largely forgoing rapping for doing that breathless thing which suggests not so much an economy of breath control as him realizing that he can mumble anything and fans will still give him pots of money. But anyway. In celebration of "Otis," here are ten other royal rap flips of Redding's music.

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Excerpt: Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, And The Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, Wherein Scarface Recalls His Mental-Health-Ward Days

By Ben Westhoff Fri., Mar. 18 2011 at 2:00 PM
Categories: Books, Featured, Friends, Geto Boys, Scarface, excerpts

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Also-beloved friend-of-SOTC Ben Westhoff's new book, Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, will be available on May 1st from Chicago Review Press. This excerpt focuses on Southern pioneers Geto Boys and particularly beloved rapper Scarface, with whom Westhoff spoke not long before the emcee was incarcerated for failure to pay child support.

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Hip-Hop's Top Ten Greatest Sneaker Songs

By Phillip Mlynar Tue., Dec. 7 2010 at 11:30 AM
Categories: Fashion, Featured, Geto Boys, Ice-T, KRS-One, Lists, MC Shan, Mack 10, Nas, Nelly, Raekwon, Run-DMC, The Pack

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Kid Cudi, going all out for Converse.
Sneakers have long been hip-hop's footwear of choice. The links between the artists making the music and the companies behind the kicks are now totally intermingled, from top-end exclusive lines like Jay-Z's limited-to-five-pairs all-black Air Force 1s (decoded: they're entirely black) and Kanye West's Nike Air Yeezys to the populist-minded brand Converse sponsoring a summery release from Kid Cudi. In honor of the show that committed hip-hop sneaker freak Rick Ross played this past weekend in NYC as part of the 2010 Sneaker Pimps tour, here's a look at ten top sneaker songs from the annals of rap.

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