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$HORT AND SWEET

Bay area veteran Too $hort blows the whistle at Stage 48

This Week in Pop Videos: Robin Thicke! 50 Cent! Lil Wayne! More!

A look at the week's hottest pop clips, including the frolicsome ribaldry of Robin Thicke, the mansion malaise of 50 Cent and the insufferable wackness of Somethingorother Yacht Idiots.

The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: The Complete List

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 >>

The Least Likely Music Headlines of 2013

For the last six months, the Sound of the City Supercomputer (a 1998 Compaq Presario) has been analyzing the structure and content of every pop news headline in the world in order to create a highly detailed predictive model of the music industry. While this project has important practical uses, suc ... More >>

Rappers At Award Shows: A History Of Violence

This past weekend saw Rick Ross and Young Jeezy's long-simmering beef boiling over into fisticuffs as the rappers and their entourages went at each other at the BET Hip-Hop Honors Awards (and possibly broke a very expensive mirror in the process). That squabble wasn't a one-off though! Here's a prim ... More >>

Q&A: Big Baby Gandhi On Rap Battling At Nine, Rebelling In The Facebook Era, And Getting Das Racist's Attention With Negative YouTube Comments

"Gandhi Mandhi was the name that they called him/ Now the honeys call me Young Kama Sutra/ Old white people real mad 'cause I'm the future." That cheeky rap is from "Boogie Nights," a jubilant track on Das Racist affiliate Big Baby Gandhi's recent mixtape No1 2 Look Up 2. The free tape is packed wit ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, And Young Money Bring Crew Love Back To Rap Radio

If you've listened to much urban radio lately, or even a little, you may have noticed that Lil Wayne and his Young Money Entertainment labelmates, particularly Drake and Nicki MInaj, are quite popular. You may have also noticed the same thing in 2011. And in 2010. And 2009. But perhaps nothing under ... More >>

IRON MEN

Action Bronson and 
Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire team up

Q&A: araabMUZIK On His Influences, His Name, And Filling His Records With Crazy Beats

​Innovation keeps culture moving forward. Some hungry kid will always figure out how to put a new spin on things his predecessors have already done. Just ask araabMUZIK. He's still young, but his production track record is strong—he's worked on tracks by Tragedy Khadafi, 50 Cent and Vad ... More >>

How to React When Someone Steals Your Cab

​Today the wise bloggers over at Daily Intel have attempted to answer a New York City etiquette question for the ages: What is a fair amount of space between the honorable person who is already there hailing a cab, and the jerkish-or-oblivious person (who, if going into labor or needing immedi ... More >>

Prodigy Speaks Freely

The Mobb Deep MC is out of jail and ready to look back on his life

Download Fear of God, the New Mixtape From the Clipse's Pusha T

​One of the happiest of the many stories to get lost in the maelstrom that was Kanye West's 2010 was the rehabilitation of Pusha T, perhaps the single most critically beloved and commercially unsuccessful rapper of the last five years. The Clipse, his duo with his brother Malice, had sat on th ... More >>

GOD BLESS AMERICA

Ugly Betty star opens Latino Film Fest

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Week in Review: Bros4Life

Not even the 15th worst record this decade. Have a good weekend!​In the week our F2K crew quantitatively decided that though Nickleback and Gym Class Heroes are bad, William Hung and Hinder were a whole lot worse, we continued to count down the worst songs of the '00s. That Santana song keepin ... More >>

Duly Quoted: 50 Cent Is the "Nicest Dude in Hip Hop," According to Questlove

And thus, ten thousand Okayplayer readers are forced to reevaluate the basic premise of their lives. The occasion? Curtis Jackson bringing his abysmal new single "Baby By Me" to Jimmy Fallon's TV show, where he was stoically backed by the Roots. And indeed, onstage with rap's best live band, one m ... More >>

F2K: The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s

Since this archive page mysteriously disappeared over at its original home, consider this your new bookmark/placeholder/friend on late, lonely nights. Confused? More here. ​It's super-cute to peruse decade-end lists and pretend to be enthusiastic about true artists like Arcade Fire, timeless m ... More >>

Rakim's Second Coming

The God MC confronts a hip-hop landscape far different from the one he once ruled

50 Cent's 51st Law: Do Not Let Thy Before I Self Destruct Leak

​If you are marooned on a desert island, train feral cats to be your protectors and companions, like Alexander Selkirk. Also: Be a tyrannical dickhead, like famous director John Ford, but also warmly encourage collaborations, like famous director Ingmar Bergman. All these 50th Law-fueld revela ... More >>

This Week's Voice: 50 Cent's The 50th Law, Brad Paisley, Bob Dylan, Where the Wild Things Are, the Andy Williams Memoir, and More

Who moved my cheese? Illustration by Shane Harrison.​In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla reads 50 Cent's surreally insightful self-help book, The 50th Law: "This book is actually kind of sad, in the bleakness of its cutthroat, shoot-nine-times-or-be-shot-nine-times worldview. Trust no o ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

​What may we expect of a third Mike Bloomberg term? Few people pay closer attention to city politics than Wayne Barrett, so he's your man for "A Bloomberg Score Card: The Mayor's Hits and Misses." He still thinks "the self-serving reversal of term limits was the greatest abuse of power I have ... More >>

Our 10 Best: Food-Themed Pop Songs

Alternative link here. ​The answer to the third of the three questions in yesterday's teaser quiz was The Newbeats, whose song "Bread and Butter" easily made it onto either the 10 Best or Runners-Up lists, but which one? Listen to this Youtube clip and see if can figure out in which position ... More >>

New York Rap Crime Wave!

​It's an unusually bad day for New York rappers and police. First the jakes ran up in Jadakiss's Yonkers apartment and walked out with 5 grams of heroin, 6.5 pounds of marijuana, and $40,000 cash. (Jada wasn't there, and isn't presently wanted by the police--his roommate (?!) seems to be takin ... More >>

Rick Ross Now Just Baldly Conducting a Funeral for 50 Cent, Who's Not Dead

The newest chapter of an ever more biblical 50 Cent Vs. Rick Ross battle, assiduously chronicled in great depth last week by Erik Parker? Acting out your enemy's funeral, complete with sobering exterior shots of "Jay's Funeral Home," a fake pastor, whole elegant wreaths of flowers, a sepia-ton ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: April 15 through 21

This Week's Voice: Superdrag, Rap Beef, Juan MacLean, State of Play, Guy Maddin, 'Younger Than Jesus', and More

In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Rob Harvilla on Superdrag's snarling, ferocious comeback, spiritual awakening notwithstanding. Erik Parker on rap battles, circa 2009, starring 50 Cent and Rick Ross. Plus Ben Detrick comes through with a particularly formidable catalog of spectacular rap ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

50 Cent and Rick Ross have a beef. Will it be settled with guns? Actually, it will more likely be settled with internet videos and rapid response units. What what? Erik Parker explains the new state of the art. Burial societies are supposed to assure their members of a grave when their time comes. ... More >>

Commence Descent Into Madness, Sadness: Eminem's "We Made You"

We challenge any and all sentient human beings to get through this song three or more times, as we just almost did. So many questions: from where is this abysmal accent, which I'll venture is vaguely Arabic (open to corrections here), coming? What could possibly be interesting to one of the bigges ... More >>

50 Cent Is Going to Get Someone Killed

This is video in which 50 Cent first interviews a woman who purports to be Rick Ross's baby's mother, then takes her shopping for fur coats and implies that he's probably fucking her when the camera's not around. Now you might think that a man who may well have burned down his own baby's mother's ... More >>

Friday Five: David Wright, Ashley Dupre, Guido Wars, 50 Cent, Air Guitar Amputee

BACK IN BUSINESS

EPMD bring New York back

How to Rob, by M.I.A.

M.I.A. triumphantly knocks the hustle that's driving hip-hop's materialist malaise

Why Would Musicians Use Steroids?

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Singles

50 Cent's Billion-Dollar Remix

50 Cent's Empire Crumbles

Council Takes (Symbolic) Aim at the Words 'Bitch' and 'Ho'

50 Cent and Michael Jackson Are Not Friends Now

KRS-One and Marley Marl Working Together: Who Cares?

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Albums

The War on Rap: Is It Real?

The Irv Gotti Trial: Still Going

The Unsigned Rapper Round-Up

Yet Another VMA Running Diary

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Married to the Hook

The corporations murdered hiphop and all I got was this lousy G-Unit throwback jersey

You're Wearing His Shirt

Clothing mogul Marc Ecko on designing for 50 Cent, the Oscars, and that regular dude on the street

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World War of Words

As Battles Turn Complicated, Murder Remains Bigger Than Hip-Hop