May 2012
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Five GIFs of Talk Show Hosts Flirting With 50 Cent →
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DJ Spinna On Perception Records, New York Soul In... →
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Kool Keith Talks About Handbags. In Detail
“My mom likes nice colors, so she wants the bag to go with her clothes as opposed to someone just carrying a Louis Vuitton bag with all black on — that’s kinda clichéd really. She will go buy a sky blue bag that matches something she has that goes into her outfit, or a purple bag. She’s into color and fashion and beige and yellows and stuff like that. Some people buy a bag but they don’t...
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Thizzin' Sensation: DEA Calls Mac Dre's Label an... →
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Rappers Talk About Superheroes For Comic Book Day
Jean Grae: “I grew up in the Chelsea Hotel and we had a comic book store right next door to us. My brother is six years older than me so if he was watching me we were definitely hanging out in the comic book store. It was pretty awesome. I think when I was maybe in like kindergarten me and my best friend used to play superheroes and we would of course go directly to X-Men and I was Storm....
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The Robin Byrd Era →
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Adam Yauch, R.I.P.
“I was fortunate enough to interview Adam Yauch around the release of the Beasties’ To the Five Boroughs album. For most of the interview we talked about what he considered were the best places to eat falafel in New York City. While enthusing about his recommendations out in Jackson Heights, Queens, Yauch told anecdotes about the day-to-day weirdness and bizarre vignettes of life he saw in...
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April 2012
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Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr...
Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game’s screen, he confesses that he’s never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, “I probably suck at this.”
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"Words of upwards mobility and personal pimp... →
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Six Great '90s NYC Rap Demos →
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Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music Mistakes →
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“Party like a cowboy" →
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Q&A: Big Baby Gandhi
“I saw 50 Cent once when I was young. He came through the neighborhood. That was before he was really big. He used to have all his videos on Queens public TV. I was a 50 Cent fan before he hooked up with Dre, before he went to jail even. It was the songs like “Life’s On The Line”—when that came out it was really big and all my friends liked it even though we knew he...
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The Sieben Greatest Kraftwerk Samples →
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A Short History of Hip-Hop’s Telephone Follies →
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"Capital STEEZ"
“Class clown, found it funny to correct my teachers/ I stand proud but I never said my pledge allegiance…”
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"The Game's new offering crams over 30... →
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Kodachrome Suite! →
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Live: Kid Koala's Space Cadet Headphone Experience...
“Is it not an ancient rule of honorable gig promotion that you do not sell more tickets than you have space pods?”
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De La Soul’s Guide to Making a Concept Record →
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Don’t Let Nas’ First Single Fool You Again — He... →
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KickDrums Talk Missing Lana Del Rey/A$AP Rocky...
“The thing about that is, I had recorded the song with Lana Del Rey separately and it was open; she was working on her album and the album took a different direction so I had the song and I was like, “Well, what can I do with this to make it something that’s over the top so it’s not just Lana Del Rey on a Kickdrums’ beat?” The track would probably have never seen the light of day if the...
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Five Need-to-Know New York Rap Tracks →
March 2012
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Clipse x The Doors: Keys Open Doors
“I know Kanye is a huge Jim Morrison fan — you can tell by his energy on the stage and the fact that he sampled “Five To One” on Jay-Z’s “Takeover.” If you listen close, you’ll hear Jim ad-libbing in the background.”
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The Dungeon Family Book Club
Can you remember the first New York artists that gave you respect for your music? Sleepy Brown: “Busta Rhymes. We were working at Dallas Austin’s studio and we always used to see him. Actually, he was the one that introduced us to the book Behold a Pale Horse [by Milton William Cooper], about the New World Order. He was the one that told us and Outkast and Goodie Mob about that book and...