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April 2, 2012
Three Rappers Who Should Be The Center Square For MTV2's Hollywood Squares Reboot (And One Who Definitely Should Not)
Next month MTV2 will debut Hip-Hop Squares, a rap-centric takeoff on the "tic-tac-toe with trivia and celebrities" game show Hollywood Squares. (The non-genre-specific version of the show aired its last episode in 2004.) The show will be hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, and MTV has announced a fe ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 21, 2012
Jack Beats
Next month MTV2 will debut Hip-Hop Squares, a rap-centric takeoff on the "tic-tac-toe with trivia and celebrities" game show Hollywood Squares. (The non-genre-specific version of the show aired its last episode in 2004.) The show will be hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, and MTV has announced a fe ... More >>
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August 10, 2011
This Week In The Voice: Brooklyn's Retromania, Machine Gun Kelly's Rapidfire Ascent
In this week's Village Voice, out now: Nick Murray examines the idea of "retro" culture as it currently exists in the Brooklyn underground; and Phillip Mlynar talks with the fleet-tongued Cleveland rapper Machine Gun Kelly in the wake of his being signed to Bad Boy. (He plays S.O.B.'s on Sund ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 15, 2011
BLACK-TIE OPTIONAL
Bands, beer pong, and a dance-off await
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June 9, 2011
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 >>
Voice Choices
June 8, 2011
'The Governors Ball'
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 >>
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April 28, 2011
Long Live The Funk? Big Boi Drops By Modest Mouse's Studio
Today in "parties you weren't invited to" news: It appears that Outkast's Big Boi has been hanging out with Modest Mouse, who are working on their upcoming album, this week. In a series of tweets, Daddy Fat Sax announced that he-- and Grammy-winning producer Chris "Mouche" Carmouche--had be ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems
Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Pazz & Jop Stats: On Kanye West's Dominance, And What The Poll Would've Looked Like Without Him
"If there was any way you could confirm Kanye's inevitable victory early, that'd be a big help art-department-wise." So began Pazz & Jop editor Rob Harvilla's first note to me after voting closed in late December. Inevitability is not a statistical quality, but the magnitude of My Beautiful D ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Q&A: Flynt Flossy On The Past, Present, And Future Of Turquoise Jeep Records
I was introduced to hip-hop/r&b collective Turquoise Jeep a couple of weeks before Christmas, when a fellow SOTC contributor recommended Yung Humma's breakout "Lemme Smang It." I expected to listen once or twice and then move on, but a month later, Humma's trademark "Mmm" is still stuck in ... More >>
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January 13, 2011
Arcade Fire Sell Nearly Half A Million Records in 2010, Will Perform at the Grammys
"The whole chart thing is kind of like sports," said an unimpressed Merge label chief Laura Ballance, back when Arcade Fire hit #1 on the Billboard charts. That may well be true. But if selling records is like sports, Arcade Fire are weirdly good at it, considering they're a bunch of spindly ... More >>
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January 11, 2011
Listen: Kanye West And Jay-Z, "H.A.M."
And thus, as threatened, did Kanye West and Jay-Z debut the first track off their upcoming Watch the Throne just past the witching hour on 1-11-11. "H.A.M." is gleefully insane: Kanye chatters about white girls, Jay plays chicken with a Mack truck, and producer Lex Luger devises a hilariously ... More >>
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January 4, 2011
Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"
Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dudeSo TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Rob Harvilla's Top 10 Singles of 2010
Not every great song this year was released by Katy Perry. From a snarling avant-electro NPR lecture to a haunted-house posse cut to a ludicrously profane viral sensation, here are 10 examples. "Teenage Dream" might still be better than all of these, though. Better get this started before I c ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
Nicki Minaj, Louie Vega, Talib Kweli, And Bollywood Disco Headline Your (Christmas!) Week In Nightlife
The holidays tend to bring a mass exodus from the city, but not everyone is leaving. In fact, some of our favorite DJs (and rappers) have chosen to come for a visit, giving us a full week of dance parties and awesome shows. We recommend that you take a night off from your holiday daze, grab a ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 8, 2010
WALK IT OUT
Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks
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September 7, 2010
Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl
Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play itBig Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Big Boi Is Guest-Starring On East Village Radio Right Now
Here's your proof. CREDITFresh off his triumphant show at Brooklyn Bowl last night and set to play NYU's mystery concert (with, uh, Dr. Dog) tonight, Big Boi is spending the afternoon at First and First on East Village Radio.
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September 2, 2010
Fool's Gold Is Throwing A Labor Day Party With Pill, Yelawolf, Just Blaze, Donnis, And So Forth At City Winery
Ain't no shortage of sweet (and often free) parties around here this weekend, but if you're looking to attend the one with the most guys who've been on the cover of XXL, do consider the Fool's Gold Day Off, happening Monday afternoon in the City Winery backyard. So, uh, crack open a bottle of ... More >>
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July 26, 2010
New York Magazine's "Jukebox" Feature Returns To Mercilessly Antagonize Us Yet Again
This imaginary man has some thoughts on Big Boi.Break out the good china, everybody: Our least favorite record-reviewing conceit has returned, wherein very probably apocryphal New Yorker stereotypes say incomprehensibly insipid things about the hot artists of the day. Are we all dying to hear ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Watch Big Boi Do "Shutterbug" For Jay Leno
It's Big Boi's world this week, the praise for Sir Lucious Left Foot near-ubiquitous out in the Internet ether, so nothing left to do but perform perhaps the record's best song for the Internet's favorite late-night talk-show host. He's gonna do an actual show in NYC, with this full-ish band and e ... More >>
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July 7, 2010
This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More
In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Download: Big Boi Mixtape For Dummies And The Rammellzee Tribute Elegy for a Gothic Futurist
Between these, your BBQ playlist is covered: Big Boi's self-released offering (available here) is fairly self-explanatory and pretty stupendous; this blog-born Rammellzee mix, though, is equally essential for anyone looking to explore the dearly departed NYC hip-hop icon's back catalog beyond ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Week In Review: We're Looking At You, Wakey Wakey
Even though we eat and sleep local music over here at SOTC, after countless hours of perusing the blogosphere and sifting through mail, we just had to say it: What the fuck, New York? We're talking to you, Wakey! Wakey! That's why we decided to create the First Annual Worst Band Name in New Y ... More >>
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June 29, 2010
Go Now: Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty Is Streaming In Full On His MySpace Page
Yes, kids, in one week the ugliest release-date-shuffling hostage situation in hip-hop history is finally resolved with the release of Big Boi's Sir Lucious Left Foot. (The word "released" has never been more appropriate.) To celebrate, go ahead and listen to the whole thing right here. "Gene ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos
Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>
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May 10, 2010
Hear M.I.A.'s Unlikely New Single, "XXXO"
A rip from the premiere on BBC's Radio 1 earlier today, when the DJ called it "the hottest record in the world right now." Hints of Justice, Z100, the mediation of social interactions by technology, clubs in Atlantic City. This the first official single off the still untitled N.E.E.T./Interscope L ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
On Big Boi's New Single, "Shutterbugg," From The Solo Album That's Actually Finally Coming Out This Year, Thank God
Get the MP3 here or here. "I'm shittin' on niggas/And pissin' on the seat," avers Big Boi on the massive, glitzy, delightfully garish (i.e. Scott Storch-produced) new single off the (finally!) imminent Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, hip-hop's most appalling endless-delay hosta ... More >>
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April 6, 2010
DO THE TIGHTROPE
Janelle Monáe juggles three nights in NYC
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February 11, 2010
On Janelle Monae's Incredible "Tightrope," Which Finally Exists In Physical Form, And Which You Should Hear Immediately, And Not Just Because Big Boi Is Involved
Head to Pitchfork now and bask in this shit. I have been waiting for this song's release for 11 months, since I first heard it at SXSW 2009 (sorry about the photo), wherein my JM obsession began. (Several months later I was on the phone with her at the exact moment Michael Jackson's death was ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 10, 2009
Goodie Mob+Scarface+Slick Rick
Head to Pitchfork now and bask in this shit. I have been waiting for this song's release for 11 months, since I first heard it at SXSW 2009 (sorry about the photo), wherein my JM obsession began. (Several months later I was on the phone with her at the exact moment Michael Jackson's death was ... More >>
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July 30, 2009
Big Boi Talks About, and To, Penguins for Sea World
We don't know why Big Boi from Outkast talking to penguins is charming, but it is. This appears to be a promotional spot for Sea World in Orlando, but maybe it's part of another confusing project like Idlewild.
Voice Choices
June 17, 2009
TRADING LACES
Stock up on sneakers and hip-hop
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January 6, 2009
Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Slim's "Good Lovin' (feat. Fabolous & Ryan Leslie)"
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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April 1, 2008
The Quarterly Report: Best Singles of 2008 Thus Far
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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March 27, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Podcast 31
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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February 28, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Interviews Killer Mike
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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October 26, 2006
Jay-Z is Afraid to Fight
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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August 29, 2006
Things I Learned Watching Idlewild
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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August 9, 2006
Preview: OutKast's New Album Idlewild
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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April 4, 2006
Things I Learned Watching ATL
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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March 21, 2006
Outcasts Search for the Love Above in Ambitious Hip-Hopera
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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January 3, 2006
The Quarterly Report: Status's Favorite New Singles
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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September 15, 2005
Adam Sandler Avoids CMJ Day 1
Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet Slim's Love's Crazy. The first, "So Fly," had Jadakiss in the Fabolous role, and Kiss, who's had some ... More >>
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April 13, 2004
Rap, Rage, REDvolution
As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country
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February 3, 2004
Top Ten Plus
Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club
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September 30, 2003
Love and Crunk
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
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January 1, 2002
So Stank, So Clean
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
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October 31, 2000
Make My Crunk the P-Funk
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
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October 27, 1998
F(reakiness) M
Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules
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