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What does it feel like to move through 50 years of hip-hop cultural history in less than 15 minutes? For…
Juvenile’s 1998 multi-platinum hit “Back That Azz Up,” featuring Mannie Fresh and Lil Wayne, was already a public service announcement,…
Today, on February 23, Ackquille Jean Pollard, AKA Bobby Shmurda, was freed from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York.…
Yesterday's News tries to make sense of the most controversial music news stories of the week. Colorism is the elephant…
The music video for the Hell's Kitchen rapper Marlon Craft's "State of the Union" is not much to look at.…
Producer Chauncey Hollis has touched some of the biggest hip hop records of the last decade—"N*ggas in Paris," "Clique," and…
Benjamin Saint Fort was hiking in Pennsylvania when his friend played "Sanam Re," the title song of the 2016 Hindi…
A popular rhetorical technique in rap is to pause and admire one's own work mid-verse. This flourish often seems needlessly…
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The turn of the millennium was a wild time. Bill Clinton was being impeached, and kids everywhere were chasing fictional…