Hip-hop showed up in full force on iTunes’s 2009 Top Sellers list released earlier today (December 8). Coming in at no. 1 for the highest selling song of the year was the Black Eyed Peas’ monster smash “Boom Boom Pow.” Flo ...
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My Decade In Rap, Pt. 1 [2000-2002]
With end-of-the-decade lists dominating conversations on the blogsphere, I figure it’s a good as time as any to get mine out the way. Instead of creating a ranked “best of” list, I’ll share with you the decade of music as ...
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I checked Twitter last night, to see if Tiger Woods' jumpoff count had reached the double digits (it had), and all people wanted to talk about was Nicki Minaj. My former colleague Sickamore was on there congratulating himself for trying to ...
Read MoreXXL Reviews Snoop Dogg’s Malice N Wonderland
Snoop Dogg Malice N Wonderland Capitol Beats: L Lyrics: L Originality: M Snoop Dogg’s tenth solo album, Malice N Wonderland, sounds like it should be dangerous. But instead of rapping about blunts, bottles and bitches, as he has done over the course of his 16-year ...
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B.G. Too Hood 2 Be Hollywood Chopper City/E1/Atlantic Beats: L Lyrics: L Originality: L It’s hard to imagine mistaking B.G. as anything other than a street-wise Southern rapper who keeps it 10 toes down in the hood. Nonetheless, his eleventh solo album, Too Hood 2 ...
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Timbaland will be giving a short, free performance at J&R Music and Computer World in lower Manhattan tonight (December 8). Upon purchasing Timbo’s new album, Shock Value II, fans will receive a wristband, giving them access to both an in-store concert ...
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Hip-Hop News
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New Artists
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Today in Hip-Hop
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Sneakers
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Lists
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Hip-Hop Fashion
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Show & Prove
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Rap Videos
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