Odder than anything beaming in from Planet Weezy is Warner Bros.' decision to take a chance on indie interloper Murs just when hip-hop sales have gotten as terrible as the rest of the music industry's. Pitchfork noted that "mainstream hip-hop has little time for ordinary dudes," and I'd add that neither does the underground, which prefers to lionize principled nutcases like El-P and MF Doom and Kool Keith. Even... More >>>