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				<title>The Final Status Ain&apos;t Hood</title>
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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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				<title>The Quarterly Report: Status Ain&apos;t Hood&apos;s Favorite New Singles</title>
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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...]]></description>
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				<title>The Quarterly Report: Status Ain&apos;t Hood&apos;s Favorite New Albums</title>
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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 t...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:06 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Status Ain&apos;t Hood Says Goodbye</title>
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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 count...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:44:45 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Status Ain&apos;t Hood&apos;s Greatest Hits</title>
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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 sa...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:18:51 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Live: Liz Phair Returns to Guyville</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:51:20 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>The BET Awards: A Running Diary</title>
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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 li...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:04:17 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Girl Talk&apos;s Pop-Music Car-Wreck</title>
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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 Gilli...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:16:35 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>50 Cent vs. Young Buck: Worst Rap Beef Ever</title>
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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 be...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:32:53 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Ranking the &quot;A Milli&quot; Freestyles</title>
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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...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:48:05 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Grading the iTunes Hits: Metro Station, Pussycat Dolls, Miley Cyrus</title>
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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 t...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:48:56 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Status Ain&apos;t Hood Podcast 43</title>
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			Songs:

- Killer Mike: "Bang"
- Keak da Sneak: "That Go Remix [feat. Prodigy & Alchemist]"
- Wire: "One of Us"
- Nachtmystium: "Assassins"

&raquo; Add Podcast to your Itunes &laquo;&raquo; Downl...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:53:02 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>8Ball &amp; MJG&apos;s Moment is Coming</title>
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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 S...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:34:48 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Country-Rap: A Secret History</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>On the R. Kelly Not-Guilty Verdict</title>
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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...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:08:52 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Live: Isaac Hayes Fights Through It</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:03:52 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>First Impressions of Coldplay&apos;s Viva la Vida</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:49:49 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Status Ain&apos;t Hood Podcast 42</title>
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			Songs:

- Jay-Z: "A Billi"
- Lil Wayne: "Whip It"
- Coldplay: "42"
- Deerhunter: "Nothing Ever Happened"

&raquo; Add Podcast to your Itunes &laquo;
&raquo; Download the Podcast &laquo;

			...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:51:33 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Wale&apos;s Mixtape About Nothing: Best Seinfeld-Related Mixtape Ever</title>
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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 ...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:06:56 -0500</pubDate>
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				<title>Miss Rap Supreme: Not That Great, Ultimately</title>
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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-...]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:43:24 -0500</pubDate>
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