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Ralph McDaniels Celebrates 30 Years of Video Music Box

New York is not only the birthplace of hip-hop culture, but the home of the first television program to broadcast rap videos. Video visionary Ralph McDaniels launched "Video Music Box" 30 years ago and now, three decades and a global phenomenon later, the hip-hop nation is ready to celebrate. Among ... More >>

Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers Are Girls Gone Godard

A thrilling corruption of the Disney-princess set

Live: LMFAO Get The Prudential Center Party Rocking

LMFAO w/Far East Movement, The Quest Crew, Sidney Samson, Eva Simons and Natalia Kills The Prudential Center Friday, June 29 Better than: You'd expect. The problem with an LMFAO concert, I realize three songs into the LMFAO concert, is that even the biggest of LMFAO fans don't want to hear more th ... More >>

Q&A: David Banner Talks Sex, Drugs And Video Games In Hip-Hop

Sex! Drugs! Video games! Nope, that isn't the hedonist's new trifecta—it's the title of Mississippi rapper David Banner's new free album, which you can cop now. The project in question might not go all-out on the salacious tip; Banner says, "The title is used to draw people in to think that it ... More >>

A$AP Rocky's New Mixtape Dropped Last Night

​LiveLoveASAP, the new mixtape from post-regional Harlem rapper and alleged recipient of one of those old-fashioned ginormous, hard-to-live-up-to record deals A$AP Rocky, was loosed on the world last night. The tape, full of beats by Clams Casino and featuring cameos by Spaceghostpurrp and oth ... More >>

69 with a Dirty-Mind: Age Has Not Mellowed The Weird World of Blowfly

The 10 Most Overplayed Party Jams

This should probably not be how you do it.​It's a common dilemma of the booty club: You're buzzing off the overpriced drinks, two-stepping with the opposite sex. The lighting is right and you're getting closer and closer to each other... and then DJ Lack-of-Direction throws on some bullshit. Y ... More >>

Ice-T's Newest Role: The Voice Of Reason On Ice Loves Coco

​ Who knew Ice-T was a role model? Ice Loves Coco, E!'s new reality show about the rapper/actor and his model/fashion designer wife, makes them look like such a perfect couple that you almost expect them to turn into anime characters and see little cartoon hearts popping above their heads as t ... More >>

Janice Hahn, Future Congresswoman, Targeted by Inane 'Give Us Your Cash, Bitch' Political Ad

Our partners at the LA Weekly introduced us to the above political ad, which serves as a nice counterpoint to our own local nuttiness lately. While on the East Coast we've had Weinergate, which of course eventually went national, and more seriously, the fight for gay marriage, the West Coast has... ... More >>

Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading

​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

Q&A: Sir Mix-a-Lot Talks "Baby Got Back," Big Butts, and Big Women

In 1992, the Seattle rapper Sir Mix-a-Lot mounted a deeply dented half-peach hill and boasted proudly, defiantly, ravenously: I Like. Big. Butts! And I cannot lie! Nearly 20 years later, "Baby Got Back" still reigns as the big-booty anthem of the 20th century. Although the archetype of feminine pu ... More >>

General Loko From the Front Lines: New York's Crusade Against Four Loko Continues

​Last weekend we learned that New York state, led by Senator Chuck Schumer, was attempting to ban the caffeinated alcoholic beverage Four Loko by circumventing the FDA and changing the law. Then, in a typically antagonistic move, daring the authorities to touch him, local chef Eddie Huang, a.k ... More >>

Mike Tyson's Top Ten Rap Cameos

​Reggie Rock Bythewood's One Night in Vegas, airing on ESPN tonight as part of the network's "30 for 30" documentary series, shines a light on the little known friendship and many parallels between tortured souls Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur. The title of Bythewood's documentary is a reference ... More >>

Q&A: Bertolain Elysee, Co-Curator of the Maysles Institute's "Country Rap 2: The Gulf States" Series, Opening This Weekend

​The Maysles Institute's documentary film series "Country Rap 2: The Gulf States" and its accompanying program "Katrina: Five Years Later"--both opening this weekend--tie the rich spirit and deep history of Southern hip-hop to recent tragedies like Katrina and the Gulf oil spill. Films about M ... More >>

Is 2010 New York City, America's "Summer of Ass"?

​The times, they change. The ebb and flow of the universe is simply something to be gerneally understood as such, and nothing more. For every action, there's an equal reaction. And for every physics law, there's a metaphysical plane to apply it to that generally shows its face when you look at ... More >>

Luther Campbell Weighs In On Lil Wayne, T.I., And Other Gun-Toting Hip-Hop Stars: "People Have To Understand The Rappers' Workplace"

​Did you know the 2 Live Crew boss is now a columnist for our compatriots at New Times down in Miami? It's true, and after a few warm-up pieces ("Fire Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra"), Luther Campbell today addresses why Lil Wayne and T.I. risked their careers over firearms. Short version: Try goin ... More >>

To Vajazzle, or Not to Vajazzle: New York's Cosmetic Crisis

​Jennifer Love Hewitt's legacy may finally be realized. After years of toiling away on Party of Five, two I Know What You Did Last Summer films, and Ghost Whisperer, it now appears that she'll be most remembered for her 2 Live Crew-esque contribution of bringing forth the trend of "blinging ou ... More >>

Here Is An Uncensored Version of Drake, Lil Wayne, and Eminem's "Drop the World/Forever" From the Grammys Last Night

Those who watched the Grammys last night know that the evening's closing performance was censored by CBS with the avidity of Tipper Gore attempting to set a 2 Live Crew record on fire. Whoever was working the silence button worked it long and hard. Luckily, a renegade broadcast caught the uncensor ... More >>

Top Buried NY Post Stories: Hugo Chavez is Right, 3OH!3 Slanders Helen Keller

Sometimes the most fascinating items in the New York Post are buried in the lifestyle coverage. Today Reed Tucker's "Diet Soda Diatribe" takes off from Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez ' claim that Coke Zero is bad for you. While saying up front, as all good Americans must, that Chavez "would love n ... More >>

Interview: Girl Talk a/k/a Gregg Gillis

Puss-Coital Dirty Pop-Rappers Menya Play CMJ, Still Work That Christgau Professor Connection

How Jamaica's Volatile Dancehall Scene Can Avoid a Biggie vs. Tupac Tragedy

Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam, Again

Flo Rida: Miami Sound Machine

Ringtone-rap titan unleashes a blaring but robotic debut

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Luke

No Context: Spank Rock and Benny Blanco's Bangers & Cash

Don't Stop

Two unlikely DJs, Womanmaker and Fancypants, spin hip-hop at the unlikeliest venue

Before MTV

Talking with Ralph McDaniels, New York VJ and hiphop's great uncle

The Rise of the Black Nerd

Separated from racial mainstreams, the outsiders make their mark

Repaid in Full

Talking with Brian Coleman, self-published hip-hop author

The Cotton Club

Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

Booty Call

DJ whoops butt disco from hills of Brazil, mashes up rising star who dances like a spaz

Good Morning Little School Girl

Taking a manifestly skillful, manifestly simplistic oeuvre seriously now that it's news

Not an Animal

Reggae dancehall's reigning brash and bold head-chopper-offer isn't afraid to be absurd

Garage Sale

The Rise of the Black Nerd

Separated From Racial Mainstreams, the Outsiders Make Their Mark

Homeboys on the Range

Never Surrender

Banned in the U.S.A.

Annals of Dicks, Drugs, and the Devil

Sticker Shock

The FTC Markets Censorship as Consumer Protection

And It's Twisty Too

Roots, Rhymes, and What?

Critics Say Brooklyn Museum Is Soft on Hip-Hop Politics

This Ain't No Disco

Rephlex Records Knocks Techno Off Its High Horse

Hybrid Fidelity

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