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“Too many of you don’t understand the game, handcuffing it and trying to earn respect by confinement. My pimpin’ is one-hundred percent, you suckas are still trying to pimp on consignment. ”

Chairlift do an excellent cover of Beyonce’s hit song “Party”, featuring Das Racist’s Kool A.D. on the rhymes.

The new video for Das Racist’s song “Brand New Dance” is all up in your FACE!

“I don’t really feel like I have fans at this point. You don’t really have fans until you have people willing to pay for your product. My plan right now is just to get as many people as I can possibly get to hear the music.”  – Danny Brown C’mon! What other rappers out there [...]

It’s been ten years since The Strokes released the raw, genre-defining album “Is This It”, which has since been named the Best Album of the Decade by NME, among other titles and accolades. Holy shit! Ten years? It still sounds hip today, which cannot be said for a lot of other popular releases from 2001. [...]

This song earned a place on my On-The-Go playlist when I heard BBU (which member, I’m not exactly sure) spit: “I’mma stop, cause my verse is irrelevant/Rappers aren’t intelligent/Waka Flocka Flame, we go hard in da paint biatch!” If I had the opportunity to award someone the title of “International Kings of Stoner Rap”, I would [...]

If you haven’t heard of King Fantastic, GET ON IT. These guys are fantastic, seriously. Ahh yes, it seems to me that the big thing these days are pop songs with an electronic feel and a hip hop hook.. yes (ahem, looking at you Akon, Usher, and all you other popular so and so’s). BUT, [...]

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Also playing at last night’s MTVu Woodie Awards was Odd Future’s Tyler, The Creator and Hodgy Beats for a Tellytubby backdropped, dwarf-starring mini-me, amped-up crowd-surfing mashup of “Yonkers” and “Sandwitches”. If you follow Tyler on Twitter then you might know he’s had a little mini-beef at a couple of Hip-Hop blogs, 2DopeBoyz and Nah Right. [...]

You know that dude who likes to pit two animals together and watch them fight, and then he records it and posts them to his site to the delight of the internet?  What’s that site called? Yeah that’s the one, Gorilla Vs Bear!  Anyway, the dude just dropped a remix that Toro Y Moi did [...]

I kinda feel like I’ve just been a part of something bigger than what I may fully realise at the moment. I’m only a recent fan of Tyler, The Creator and his OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, or Odd Future for short) cohorts, but having seen some of their videos and heard [...]

“Time to scare white America”- OFWGKTA. Unless you’ve been sitting under a rock or got that broke ass dial-up, I’m sure you’ve heard of the phenomena known as Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All. AKA the kids running around Los Angeles that frighten the shit out of you slash intrigue you. Odd Future is [...]

So, a buddy of mine rented out a room to Eric Frederic here in LA (excuse me, I think I just dropped something on the floor… pardon me real quick while I pick up that name I just dropped). Anyway, sure I’ve heard of Wallpaper., but in relevant interest I searched a bit further. Shit [...]