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The 10 Best Male Rappers of All Time

Since the birth of hip-hop, male rappers have been bringing their unique viewpoint to the art of rhyme. Today, we're shining some long overdue light on their important contributions to rap. We're proud to present our list of the 10 finest male rappers, from the smoking-hot hardbodies to the true lyr ... More >>

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Catch Will Smith, Denzel Washington, and Barack Obama in one room

BOYCOTT! Like Rick Ross, These Product-Endorsing Artists Have Said Vile Things

Yesterday activists protested Reebok's flagship store to put pressure on the company to cut its ties with rapper Rick Ross, who recently ... well you already know this story. Whether or not the more than 71,000 signatures collected to get Ross fired will work remains to be seen, but Big Corporations ... More >>

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 20 - 11

Any list of the Greatest New York Rap Albums of All Time is, essentially, a list of simply the Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. The genre was invented here, after all, and over the years -- from early days to Golden Age and onward-- the city's hip-hop history has been an embarrassment of riches. Fas ... More >>

How To Stop Masturbating To 50 Cent

Last week, 50 Cent took to Twitter to tackle an issue few rappers have dared address: the sin of masturbation. He even went so far as to offer a handy four-step guide to avoiding the temptation to debase yourself: Step 1: To avoid the urge to masturbate stop going to porn sites. Step 2: Make a con ... More >>

The Fall Of Curtis: How September 11, 2007 Changed Everything For 50 Cent

Let me indulge in a little bit of Jay-Z/Kanye fan fiction in the least 50 Shades of Grey way possible: Def Jam President and retired rapper Jay-Z was fed up. 50 Cent had been sending subliminal barbs Jay's way for eight years, starting with a shot Mr. Carter's way on "How To Rob" when they were b ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, And Skrillex's Hordes Of Fans Swarm Austin On Day Three Of SXSW

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in this planet's many happenings, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at the South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. To break down the chaos, a few of Village ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Born This Way Gets The No. 1 Spot It Was Probably Born To Have

​Congratulations to Lady Gaga, whose album Born This Way beat out the projections and moved 1.1 million copies in its first week for the top slot on the Billboard 200 and the best seven-day sales tally since 2005, when 50 Cent's The Massacre moved 1.14 million copies over the span of a week. I ... More >>

Oh Great, The First Piece Of SEO Pop Regarding The Past Day's Events Has Arrived

This cat is embarrassed on all our behalf.​"SEO Pop," for those of you who might be confused by the genre named by pop-lyric scholar Andy Hutchins, is the umbrella term given to those songs about bleeding-edge-current topics that are released via the speedy dissemination tools offered by the I ... More >>

50 Cent's Greatest Hits Of Late 2010 And 2011: A Surprisingly Long List

Anything to keep him off Twitter​Don't look now, but 50 Cent is off in his little corner making compelling music again. Actually, you had better look now -- he only does this once a year or so, in between failed commercial projects. (Although here's a secret almost no one knows: His last such ... More >>

Q&A Part 1: Harlem Rapper Donny Goines On The Life And Death Of Producer Disco D

"He told me, 'Donny, don't make music for others, make it for yourself.'"​Saturday marks four years since producer David "Disco D" Shayman took his own life in the basement of his parents' house. Disco's D's public legacy is defined by his involvement in the ghetto-tech scene, allegiances with ... More >>

Why Is 50 Cent Hanging Out With YouTube Kid Keenan Cahill?

This video of 15-year-old YouTube star Keenan Cahill, better known as BeenerKeeKee19952, raises a lot of questions. Like, if this kid is famous for lip-syncing pop songs, why does he never actually know any of the lyrics? Where did he come from? What song is this? How exploitative is the propagatio ... More >>

The Day 50 Cent Threatened Gawker.com, Michelle Obama, and His Own Grandmother on Twitter

Though 50 Cent has had his own verified account on Twitter for a while now, it's safe to say that yesterday was the rapper's official debut on the social media site. How do we know this? Because about 24 hours ago the robotic, self-promotional, ghost-written stream of updates occasionally posted t ... More >>

Ending the Day with a Horrifically Gaunt and Desiccated 50 Cent

​We did not have 50 Cent in the "rapper most likely to drop 50 pounds for a movie role and come out the other side looking like an agonized, malnourished dinosaur" in the Village Voice office pool, but maybe next time? [ThisIs50]

Rufus Wainwright on 50 Cent: "I Know He's Gay"

​When not explicating the mores of the Insane Clown Posse to befuddled internet denizens, critic and SOTC pal Jonah Weiner has an entertaining sideline asking musicians ridiculous questions for Details. Like this one, posed to cabaret icon Rufus Wainwright: "You own lederhosen custom-made by a ... More >>

Black Celebrities on the Down Low

​A regular on Datalounge.com has posted his list of black male stars on the down low! Someone else on the site responded that a lot of it is just wishful thinking, and someone else chimed in that a lot of these guys are more likely bi, but I'd have to say a lot of this is pretty spot on too. ... More >>

LIQUID SWORDPLAY

GZA/Genius hits the Gramercy Theater

State Dinner Menu Revealed; 50 Has His Taco & Gets to Eat It Too

​Rapper Curtis James Jackson III, a.k.a. 50 Cent, settled a lawsuit against Taco Bell for using his name as part of a promotion without his permission. The unauthorized campaign involved a joke letter sent to 50 asking him to change his name to 79, 89, or 99 Cent to promote menu items under a ... More >>

Here Is A Video of the Rapper 50 Cent Singing "Kumbaya"

We should all hope to be influential enough that when Curtis Jackson has an album to promote, we can ask him to do something ridiculous in return for our tepid support. [Rap Radar]

50 Cent's "40 Day" Was Cancelled By the City

After a tremendous amount of public back and forth between 50 Cent's camp and Mayor Bloomberg's office about whether or not the rapper's "40 Day" block party would be allowed to proceed as scheduled, representatives for the rapper announced at the last minute that the celebration--which was suppos ... More >>

50 Cent's "40 Day" Still Happening on Sunday in Queens, Sans Performance; Q-Tip Still Totally Outraged with the Mayor

50 Cent's "40 Day," the long and irrationally feared weekend block party thrown for the residents of the South Jamaica Houses in the area around which 50 grew up, is still scheduled for this Sunday, sans a performance. Mayor Bloomberg himself quashed the idea of 50 performing in Queens, after a se ... More >>

Cam'ron Will Not Be Reconciling with 50 Cent at the Show 50 Cent Isn't Playing in Queens: "We Can Meet in Benihana's If You Wanna Be Serious"

Lost in the theoretically bullet-riddled hysteria about the block party 50 Cent is throwing in Queens on August 30th--at which the artist was going to play, and then he wasn't, and then even the mayor got involved, all because of a remarkably alarmist and poorly-sourced NYP article--was the rumor ... More >>

50 Cent Will Not Perish In A Hail of Bullets Fired By Dying Grandmothers

​So if you have an exclusive about the coming holocaust of grief and young punks and dead grandmothers and kids shooting up the block, just because 50 Cent might perform a song or two in Queens, and then you have another exclusive not 24 hours later about how this horrible tragedy of gang viol ... More >>

50 Cent To Turn Queens Schoolyard Into A Blood-Soaked O.K. Corral, According to This Not-At-All-Alarmist New York Post Article

​The fact that on any given night in New York City a rapper is playing a concert with a minimum of horrific violence and without sparking "a wave of fear" in the surrounding community does not seem to have registered with the New York Post. Ahem: Superstar rapper 50 Cent is secretly planning ... More >>

50 Cent to Elmo: "I Saved Your Life!"

This is a Jimmy Kimmel Live clip of 50 Cent dousing Sesame Street's Elmo with Vitamin Water after celebrity chef Adam Perry had shaved the furry red creature and began barbecuing him. Nobody promotes new albums like 50 Cent, whose War Angel mixtape--the cover of which seems to borrow both the apoc ... More >>

Letters: April 23 Edition

The New Rap Battle: 50 Cent Vs. Rick Ross

Building a new paradigm with fewer rhymes and more costumes

"They Put on Wigs, They Buy Dildos, They Put It in They Mouth"

"That's stuff we would have done in middle school. When you're dealing with degenerates on this level, it's something you have to deal with. Did we think it was a threat to Khaled's mother? Of course not. That's what these dudes do: They put on wigs, they buy dildos, they put it in they mouth, they ... More >>

FINE FORMS

Hip-Hop royalty get stroked

50 Cent Is Still Pretty Good At Embarrassing Other Rappers

While 50 Cent's sneering, self-righteous, conniving persona basically keeps him from making good music at all these days, he's still perfectly suited to go in on another rapper. And so: "Officer Ricky (Go Head, Try Me)." Making fun of Rick Ross for being a correctional officer is a little 2008, ma ... More >>

The Worst Lyrics of 2008

The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

Passing of TRL Unaccountably Mourned

Prodigy’s 25th Hour

A Queens rap icon scrambles to prepare for life on the inside

Provincializm: Pearlene, Dirty South As Gravitron

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 4

In Praise of Assholes

Kanye can't rap. 50 is retrograde. Both are absolutely necessary.

Kanye West Loves Hipsters

50 Cent vs. Cam'ron: Internet Beef

The Game Goes to War (Again)

50 Cent vs. Diddy: Battle of the Rap Villains

Boxing Day

Things I Learned Watching Get Rich or Die Tryin'

A History of Violence

Hustle and dough: 50 Cent fine in debut, but G persona precludes emotional honesty

50 Cent Defends George W. Bush Against Kanye West

Thug Radio

Beef and bullets in rap's corporate ratings war

Life After 50

Nondescript voice raps like he means it; spawns disciples

Tales of the Tape

Mix CDs Radically Transform the Business and Culture of Hip-Hop

In Da Fight Club

Original Pirate Material

Queens Upstart Skips the Middleman, Takes on Hip-Hop's Kings of New York