Status Ain't Hood

The Final Status Ain't Hood

2008-07-03 14:06:13

Grant Siedlecki on the Photoshop assist So this is it: goodbye, for real this time. To everyone who wasted valuable work time reading this thing: Thank you. And I'll be back. ...

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The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Singles

2008-07-02 16:10:20

You can't really tell, but that's me and Juicy J At around 1:30 this afternoon, I ran into Juicy J from Three 6 Mafia as he was walking into the pizza place across from the Voice offices, and I ...

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The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

2008-07-01 16:57:06

Dead blog posting Hey, we're not going on strike! So that means you get a couple more days of me posting like a lameass after all the goodbye festivities. For real, though, I can't even begin to...

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Status Ain't Hood Says Goodbye

2008-06-30 13:44:45

Bone gristle popping from continuous grinding This could be my last day at the Village Voice. I've been working at this newspaper for just shy of three years now, and I've made it through countl...

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Status Ain't Hood's Greatest Hits

2008-06-27 14:18:51

It won't be much longer now, so let's take a look back, one per month. Indulge me. British Rappers Pretending to be Rappers. The very first Status Ain't Hood ever: a review of three shows I saw...

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Live: Liz Phair Returns to Guyville

2008-06-26 15:51:20

And watch how fast I run to the sea Liz Phair Hiro Ballroom June 25, 2008 This is the fifteenth anniversary of the release of Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville, which means it's also probably the f...

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The BET Awards: A Running Diary

2008-06-25 10:04:17

Millions and millions of Obama references, right here So: an awards show where everyone gets to do full versions of their songs, where the camera doesn't jerk around spasmodically, where the lif...

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Girl Talk's Pop-Music Car-Wreck

2008-06-24 16:16:35

I really hope this is his parents' house People actually dance at Girl Talk shows. I'm not quite sure how this happens, but it does. On record and in person, the Pittsburgh laptop DJ Greg Gillis...

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50 Cent vs. Young Buck: Worst Rap Beef Ever

2008-06-23 17:32:53

I don't like the way he do it There's a moment in this latest taped missive where 50 Cent looks meaningfully into the camera and says, "This is what money does." Well, yeah. The entire issue bet...

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Ranking the "A Milli" Freestyles

2008-06-20 16:48:05

Goon to a goblin I probably hear Bangladesh's hammering mantralike "A Milli" beat twenty times a day lately. "A Milli" has cruised to song-of-the-summer status in something like record time. In ...

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Grading the iTunes Hits: Metro Station, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus

2008-06-19 15:48:56

Now if she does it like this will you do it like that Lil Wayne and Coldplay are not safe. On Tuesday, Disney released the soundtrack to Camp Rock, their High School Musical-esque vehicle for th...

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Status Ain't Hood Podcast 43

2008-06-18 15:53:02

Songs: - Killer Mike: "Bang" - Keak da Sneak: "That Go Remix [feat. Prodigy & Alchemist]" - Wire: "One of Us" - Nachtmystium: "Assassins" » Add Podcast to your Itunes «» Downlo...

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8Ball & MJG's Moment is Coming

2008-06-18 14:34:48

Don't make don't make them kill them kill no motherfucking body in here The Birthday Bash, Atlanta rap station Hot 107.9's big annual show, has always seemed like a baby version of the Hot 97 Su...

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Country-Rap: A Secret History

2008-06-17 19:27:00

Cowboy Troy plays chicken with a train Snoop Dogg's "My Medicine" is the goofiest, most engaging novelty song on an album full of goofy, engaging novelty songs. It's his country song, and it's e...

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On the R. Kelly Not-Guilty Verdict

2008-06-16 16:08:52

Hey, I made it. I'm the world's greatest. When the news came out this past Friday that R. Kelly's jury had found him not guilty on all counts of child pornography, the first person I told about ...

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Live: Isaac Hayes Fights Through It

2008-06-13 14:03:52

I'm talking about the power of love now Isaac Hayes Prospect Park Bandshell June 12, 2008 Isaac Hayes co-wrote "Soul Man" and "Hold On I'm Comin'" for Sam & Dave. He played the Duke in Escape F...

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First Impressions of Coldplay's Viva la Vida

2008-06-12 15:49:49

Gruel Britannia Coldplay's "Chinese Sleep Chant" is one of the more blatant My Bloody Valentine rips I've ever heard on a major-label album, all heavily processed guitar-swirl and Chris Martin s...

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Status Ain't Hood Podcast 42

2008-06-12 10:51:33

Songs: - Jay-Z: "A Billi" - Lil Wayne: "Whip It" - Coldplay: "42" - Deerhunter: "Nothing Ever Happened" » Add Podcast to your Itunes « » Download the Podcast « ...

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Wale's Mixtape About Nothing: Best Seinfeld-Related Mixtape Ever

2008-06-11 18:06:56

What can you even say to this? So Wale made a mixtape about Seinfeld. This is a weird thing for a rapper to be doing. Or maybe The Mixtape About Nothing isn't strictly speaking a mixtape about S...

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Miss Rap Supreme: Not That Great, Ultimately

2008-06-10 14:43:24

Lady Twist got robbed Miss Rap Supreme ended last night pretty much the same way that The (White) Rapper Show, the ego trip crew's previous foray into reality TV, ended last year. In a head-to-h...

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