Audio Atlas: Nigeria
Audio Atlas is our monthly series exploring different music from around the world.
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Audio Atlas is our monthly series exploring different music from around the world.
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Ask Slava P about hockey right now and you will get cross-checked.
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The culture that in the 1990s lost its brightest stars to gun violence has in recent years seen a series of notable rappers die of drug- and health-related causes.
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No human being will ever put "Victory" in a body bag the way Frank White did, especially with his first verse.
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Rapper 50 Cent and English rockers The Heavy , the latter of which are known for their song "How You Like Me Now?," featured in Horrible Bosses , are teaming up.
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Limp Bizkit lifted hard rock into modern popular culture as soon as they burst onto the scene.
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Mark Wahlberg was in a somber mood at the New York premiere of his new film, "Pain and Gain"_ still grappling with the tragedy that struck his hometown in Boston.
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It may not come as a surprise to many, but there is a lot of shit music on the internet.
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It's been twenty years since Fat Joe entered the rap game.
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If you're a rap or basketball fan who came of age in the early aughts, you missed the beginning -- and ending -- of Kobe Bryant's rap career.
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It seems churlish, nigh on disrespectful, to even question its wellbeing considering it's, well, New York - the birthplace of rap, realness and foundation within a big city of dreams, and long the cause for street Dick Whittingtons to sling rhyme-filled bindles over their shoulders.
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At some point while we were sleeping, 50 Cent became this kind of historical music figure.
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Forbes have published their annual 'Forbes Five' list of the world's wealthiest hip-hop artists.
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The producer-rapper and Bad Boy Records founder tops Forbes ' latest list of the richest hip-hop artists, which he also led last year.
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It's new 50 Cent. Wow. Say what you want about the man – and there's a lot to say if you're so inclined – but you can't say that he doesn't love music.
Read MoreIf you rap and make violent music then own up to it.
Read MoreSashCHEAYung Fivel the mouse from American TailsYou don't give two shits bout ya fuck ass Sandnigga family…It's Sunday and instead of spending time w/ ya fam YOU preoccupied w/ MEHow my dick taste, faggot…..
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50 Cent has rejected claims his music glorifies gun violence.
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A trial date of June 26 has been set for a man who prosecutors say attempted to sacrifice his friend last year, in hopes of joining the Illuminati , an act he believed would've launched his rap career. 27-year-old Wafeeq Sabir El-Amin of Richmond, Virginia was charged with malicious wounding after the aspiring rapper fired a shot towards the head of his friend after declaring him "as his sacrifice."
Read MoreSo Snoop Dogg is still Snoop Dogg when he's on other people's tracks, but he's Snoop Lion when he's doing his new songs, is that how this current arrangement works?
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Our SXSW 2013 coverage continues below, with Rhye, Autre Ne Veut, Savages, Pissed Jeans, Solange, Parquet Courts, and so many other bands you may or may not care about.
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Last month, 50 Cent attempted to kiss Fox Sport's Erin Andrews while she was covering the Daytona 500 in Florida.
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Last year, 50 Cent performed his debut LP Get Rich or Die Trying in its entirety at SXSW.
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"Yesterday marked eight years since the release of 50 Cent's sophomore album The Massacre. The 21-track album featured some of 50′s biggest hits of his career, including the Mobb Deep-assisted "Outta Control," collaboration with Olivia "Candy Shop," club smash "Disco Inferno," and the seductive single "Just A Lil Bit." Just last month, 50 had hip-hop fans time-traveling back to 2003 when he released Get Rich Or Die Tryin' as album turned 10 years old. The praise for the former G-Unit leader reminded us just how important he was to the rap game and inspired us to do something special.
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Kendrick Lamar dropped a masterpiece with 'Good Kid, M.A.A.D City', El-P released an amazing solo album and helped produce the latest from Killer Mike , and 2chainz appeared in almost every song on the radio. 2012 was also the year of mixtapes!
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Don't blame 50 Cent for the awkward encounter he had with Erin Andrews at the Daytona 500 last week -- the hottest woman in sideline reporting says the blame lies squarely with her.
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Brothers Daniel and Andrew Aged of the LA-based duo inc. concluded their run as session and touring musicians in 2009.
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Perhaps more evidence that Jimmy Kimmel is the right guy to host the Oscars ?
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Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave pals around with another NYC rappers like Action Bronson and Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire , and like those guys, Troy is keeping alive the spirit of old school rap (he's also got a song with Prodigy ).
Read MoreCurtis sits down with the Wall Street Journal's Lee Hawkins to talk about a number of subjects.
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In the wake of good kid, m.A.A.d city 's overwhelming acclaim, current hip hop MVP Kendrick Lamar has been popping up in some interesting places recently, whether through the two posse cut entries he contributed to A$AP Rocky's debut and an attention-grabbing hook-up with 50 Cent that managed to actually live up to the hype, or in less obvious guest turns that found him sharing track space with Dido and The Lonely Island.
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While 50 Cent may have blown up something major back in 2012, deading careers and dominating not only the hip hop game but a massive chunk of the pop landscape as well with his multi-platinum-selling debut Get Rich or Die Tryin' , as career trajectories tend to go, the longer that breakthrough year has receded into the rear-view, the deeper the G-Unit kingpin has edged into falling into the black hole of irrelevancy, a string of spotty follow-up albums riddled with push-back woes and uninspired singles (not to mention an army of new hip hop voices providing younger, fresher perspectives) leading him to a 2013 where interest in a new Fiddy release had fallen somewhere real low on the ladder of "Things People Care About".
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