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February 28, 2012
12 Tracks, Two And A Half Hours: Sound Of The City's Mixtape Of Long Rap Songs
Last week, the new Gorillaz track "DoYaThing" dropped. It's long—a full 13-minutes and some seconds of music, a lot of which involves Andre 3000 getting frenzied and inspired with that rapping thing he does so well. With "DoYaThing" and persistent talk about Outkast reunion rumors bedazzling u ... More >>
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February 2, 2012
Download: Homeboy Sandman's Interstellar Voyage "The Miracle"
Homeboy Sandman is a spiraling autumn of light from Queens, a rapper whose flow at once sounds like a metaphysical brain drain and a physically fit slice of verbal gymnastics. With a career built on battle competitions, hosting nights at the Nuyorican Poets Café and some guerilla F train flyering, ... More >>
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December 19, 2011
Live: VH1 Brings Out The Divas At The Hammerstein Ballroom
via VH1VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
The Roots
via VH1VH1 Divas Celebrates Soul Hammerstein Ballroom Sunday, December 18 Better than: Whatever Ryan Seacrest is going to cook up for VH1 Soul. Last night's VH1 Divas taping existed both as a performance and self-contained, 24-hours-out advertising opportunity for its broadcast. (Tonight at ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Kanye West Showed Up At The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival
At this weekend's Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival, Q-Tip brought out a few guests (Black Thought, Busta Rhymes), and among them was Kanye West, who performed a couple of his own tracks, assisted Q-Tip on "Award Tour," and took a flying leap into the crowd. The camera weaving in and out of the lower-right ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Strained Vibes, Excellent Scenario in Beats, Rhymes & Life
Michael Rapaport’s A Tribe Called Quest documentary eclipses the surrounding drama
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May 16, 2011
Kool Herc's Top Three Old-School New York Hip-Hop Venues
Kool Herc plays the genesis figure in hip-hop's fable; the first party the Jamaican-born, Bronx-raised DJ threw in the recreation room of his building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in 1973 is credited with formalizing the genre. From behind two turntables Herc spun the short, percussive sections of ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Live: The Roots Play To The Crowd At Astoria's New Outdoor Venue
The Roots Studio Square Wednesday, May 4 Better Than: Whatever '90s cover band was playing elsewhere in Astoria. An hour into the Roots' Wednesday night show, located at the Astoria beer garden Studio Square, Black Thought finally got the crowd to sing along. The trouble was, the song the a ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Q&A: Neko Case On The Charity Drawing For Her 1967 Mercury Cougar, Her Poor Twitter Etiquette, And The Beastmaster
"My hugest goal was to get a Retweet from Questlove, because he has all these followers and he's so great. And he totally gave me one! I was like, 'This is a Twitter victory!'" Act now and all this (well, the car at least) could be yoursThe cover of Neko Case's 2009 album, Middle Cyclone, fe ... More >>
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March 10, 2011
Ten Reasons Why The Wu Tang Clan Are The Greatest Rap Group Of All Time
Raekwon, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident slang scholar, released his new solo album, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, last week; it's the latest installment in a magnificent saga that's now nearly two decades strong and leaves Staten Island's finest rap representers firmly in the conversation for hip-hop's g ... More >>
Music
December 15, 2010
R&B Serenity Now: R. Kelly, Ne-Yo, and Others Keep the Quiet-Storm Flame Alive
Raekwon, the Wu-Tang Clan's resident slang scholar, released his new solo album, Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang, last week; it's the latest installment in a magnificent saga that's now nearly two decades strong and leaves Staten Island's finest rap representers firmly in the conversation for hip-hop's g ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008
AND STILL THEY RISE
The RootsÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ next regeneration awaits
Voice Choices
February 19, 2008
PUT MY ROOTS DOWN
Philly’s finest get the spotlight at the Apollo
Music
August 14, 2007
Ebony and Imus
Cornel West hangs with Prince and challenges—not denounces—hip-hop
Music
July 24, 2007
Evil Empire Strikes Back
A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection
Music
November 14, 2006
Diddy's Little Helpers
Why hip-hop ghostwriting is an art now, and an actually respectable one
Music
November 7, 2006
Pulling Dylan Out by the Roots
An otherwise sleepy tribute gets ambushed by "Machine Gun"
Music
August 29, 2006
Blood at the Roots
A new label and newfound rage bear strange fruit for hip-hop's everymen
Music
August 15, 2006
The Soul of Detroit Hip-Hop Bows Out Soulfully
A new label and newfound rage bear strange fruit for hip-hop's everymen
Music
May 23, 2006
Shooting His Mouth Off
Comic Communist spins Saddam theories and tells us where he got his shoes
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January 24, 2006
I'm My Favorite Game
Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile
Music
August 3, 2004
Looking Past Differences
Don't let the young Republicans put you in jail or the restless hipsters scare you away
Music
July 13, 2004
Off Balance
Illadelphians lose their cultural momentum, maybe even tipping in the wrong direction
Music
April 13, 2004
All The World
Not Spyro Gyra, just a hip-hop band throwing a world party
Music
June 10, 2003
The Permanent Record
Three DJs Give You Something You Can Really Pop Your Collar To
Music
December 31, 2002
Nicebreaker
Three DJs Give You Something You Can Really Pop Your Collar To
Music
April 9, 2002
Time Will Reveal
Three DJs Give You Something You Can Really Pop Your Collar To
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August 14, 2001
Love and Other Catastrophes
Three DJs Give You Something You Can Really Pop Your Collar To
Music
August 8, 2000
Eraserheads
Three DJs Give You Something You Can Really Pop Your Collar To
Music
October 19, 1999
Booger High
Five Hit Singles Linked by No Concept Whatsoever!
Music
March 2, 1999
Love Jones
Five Hit Singles Linked by No Concept Whatsoever!
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February 2, 1999
A Bulgar Display
Five Hit Singles Linked by No Concept Whatsoever!
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October 13, 1998
Do for Self
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