Tape Adapter: May's Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed
Rap seems to be lurching towards June 18 with trepidation.
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Rap seems to be lurching towards June 18 with trepidation.
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About three-quarters of the way through the band's joyous, two-years-in-the-making headlining set, R. Kelly – the Chicago R&B star who shares little if anything in common with the French rockers – belted one of his best known lyrics from offstage, shocking virtually everyone: "My mind's telling me no! But my body . . . my body's telling me yes!"
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When Terrence ' Pusha T ' Thornton's main vehicle Clipse were ramping up anticipation for 2009 album Til the Casket Drops, the irony was that its preceding promotional mixtape proved more essential than the main event.
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Clipse rapper Pusha T recruited Rick Ross for " Millions ," the lead single from his Wrath Of Caine mixtape, and now both guys are here to rap animatedly in the song's video.
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Back in 2002, having a major label debut produced entirely by The Neptunes was the sort of thing of which street dreams were made.
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If you Google "Deen" Twitter, Deen is second only to the male porn star, James Deen. With your help, he can be first.
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It's time again for us to look back over a year's worth of music - meaning, for me, it's time to think of some way to make sense of a year's worth of rap records.
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Pusha T 's performance at New York's Best Buy Theater last night proved to be a very eventful one.
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In our oral history of Turn On the Bright Lights , Interpol frontman Paul Banks expressed frustration at how journalists refused to believe he was listening to hip-hop almost exclusively upon the release of his band's 2002 classic.
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On the first single from Reloaded, Roc Marciano threatens to "push your afro back to 76... those were some good years, baby."
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With The Man With the Iron Fists we get to see Wu-Tang Clan member and spiritual leader RZA do something he's always wanted to do: make a ridiculously awesome, totally kickass kung fu movie.
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"Now that he's onboard, everything else is perfect," Pusha T tells The BoomBox.
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Underground rap music is rife with high expectations.
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It feels like ages ago that brothers Terrence and Gene Thornton–better known by their monikers Pusha T and Malice–released their fourth and final LP as The Clipse, Til The Casket Drops.
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Thanks to his ginned-up appearances on G.O.O.D. Music hits like "Mercy", "New God Flow", and the remix of Chief Keef's "I Don't Like", Pusha-T is more visible right now than at any other time since Clipse broke in with "Grindin'" 10 years ago.
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The subliminal war between G.O.O.D. Music and Young Money runs deep.
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Track four of 17 on this, the debut album proper by Oakland rap duo Main Attrakionz, calls itself LFK – short for Lo-Fi Kings.
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How do you describe Main Attrakionz in a word?
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Deen is on the phone, cooking sopes at the same damn time.
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In a rap music environment rife with bravado, ambition, and sensationalism Kanye West is a man apart.
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"I could die right now and still be happy," shouted my rather unhinged friend as the first Birmingham show of the Watch the Throne tour came to a close.
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Pusha T was supposed to call some time before noon in New York, but he's in Hawaii, where the weather is perfect and the water is clear and the sun is probably beautiful, but it hasn't risen yet.
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After several delays, G.O.O.D. Music's new LP Cruel Summer will officially debut on September 18 (aka just four days before the autumnal equinox hits and the title would have to become Cruel Fall ).
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Clipse's "Grindin," the first single from Lord Willin' , sounded like it came from the future.
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2 Chainz claims to be a tall man with a short temper.
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By now almost everybody knows the stuttering big-bang beat of Clipse's 2oo2 hit "Grindin'" — but did you know the beat almost went to another rapper?
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The Brooklyn, N.Y. native is not only a seasoned solo artist, he's also a member of the hip-hop conglomerate known as Army of the Pharaohs.
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"The beat is terrible, her flow is goofy and terrible, she has a pandering Supreme sticker on her laptop and the whole song is meaningless, boring pop culture references — it's 'Gucci Gucci' with no hooks and no viewpoint, custom-designed to get posted on the Fader."
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I somehow ended up at a Pusha T concert over the weekend.
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Hearing half of the Thornton brothers do anything other than snarling coke raps seems weird. wrong.
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With a clothing line and a powerhouse group of artists under his umbrella, Lil Wayne claims he's trying to stay above the fray.
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Last week, Clipse rapper Pusha T released " Exodus 23:1 ," a dis track that sure seemed to be aimed at Drake.
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Lecrae delivers his latest mixtape, Church Clothes , featuring a slew of collaborators.
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Reach Records rapper Lecrae has tapped DJ Don Cannon and Clipse member No Malice -- formerly Malice -- for his forthcoming mixtape Church Clothes, due May 10.
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