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Bun B and Shea Serrano's New Rap Coloring Book Is (Not Really) For the Children

Every Person, Place, and Thing on Magna Carta Holy Grail: A Checklist

If while listening to Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail, you experienced an indescribable sensation that you were actually listening to an encrypted invitation to a very luxurious party with a super exclusive guest list and even more ridiculous gift wish list, you were right!!! We made note of every pe ... More >>

Statik Selektah on the Troll Power of Putting Mac Miller and Sean Price on the Same Song

Editor's note: In "Tweets Is Watching," Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Statik Selaktah promises his upcoming album, Extended Play, will "remind you of the hip-hop you grew up on, but it's like the new fresh version of that." To hi ... More >>

Introducting the Winners of Voice Media Group's First Annual Music Writing Award

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

Live: Busta Rhymes Pauses Conversation With Bun B To Perform At Angie Martinez's BBQ

Angie Martinez's Backyard BBQ The Garden At Studio Square Saturday, August 18 Better than: Getting lost coming home from Queens. CBS sitcoms, Tom Wolfe and Republicans alike have all painted New York City as a noisy, grimy nightmare, a melting pot of sex and kvetching, guns and soupy hot dogs, wh ... More >>

The Best Dishes From The #HipHopBBQActs Menu

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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 >>

Live: Bun B Gets His Kicks At Good Units

via Freshnessmag​Bun B Good Units (Complex Foot Locker's Sneakerpedia Launch Party) Tuesday, May 17 Better than: Waiting outside in the rain (at least for the shoes' sake). Last night at Good Units, there were more cameras aimed at the floor than at the stage--which might have been fittin ... More >>

An Idiot's Guide to SXSW 2011: DFA 1979 Chaos, Kanye in a Power Plant, Screeching Weasel Assault, and More

photo by Nate "Igor" SmithTexan frat-boy didgeridoos We know you hated us, and at this moment, we hate ourselves too. Since you probably (definitely/rightfully) blocked all the spirited gluttony and gleeful ignorance cluttering your Twitter feed about SXSW, let's just accept that a few things happe ... More >>

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 >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #8: Ludacris featuring Nicki Minaj, "My Chick Bad"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Your chick ain't the only thing that's bad...

The 10 Best Posse Cuts of 2010 (So Far)

​Posse cuts are like friendlier versions of the WWE's Royal Rumble -- a platform designed to showcase all of the stars in the game, both up-and-coming and certified. Think back to the Main Source's 1991 "Live At The Barbecue," featuring Akinyele, Joe Fatal, and the debut of a rapper named Nas, ... More >>

The 10 Greatest Rap Songs About Video Games

​Def Jam Rapstar is the latest attempt to merge the worlds of hip-hop and video games. In the past, this has involved shoehorning playable rapper characters into cliched genres -- a Wu-Tang Clan beat-'em-up! 50 Cent's first-person shooter! -- or rappers licensing a few throwaway songs to the l ... More >>

Bun B Is Not Playing Saturday Afternoon's Rock Yard Show; Big K.R.I.T. And Curren$y Will Pick Up The Slack

​Per the folks at Jelly comes confirmation that deified Houston rapper Bun B (whose new Trill O.G. rates either five mics or a 5.0, depending) is not performing tomorrow afternoon at the Rock Yard, but the show will nonetheless go on:

More Free Outdoor Shows: Jelly NYC Is Also Throwing Six Saturday Line-Ups in Williamsburg

"Below is a video we made to celebrate and get pumped up!" says Jelly NYC. Ok. Hey, internet people who think confronting nature in Williamsburg means getting drunk outside. Another series of free outdoor shows were just announced five minutes before they're about to start. The organizers are Jel ... More >>

And the Third Drake Single Is..."Miss Me," Featuring Lil Wayne

The full version, after Drake's verse leaked a month ago. If you're following along, we now have the willfully perverse first single--that'd be "Over," probably the most bizarre half-sung album-announcing lead record since Kanye did 808s--the loverman-showcasing, Jamaican tourism minister-angering ... More >>

Drake Asks Nicki Minaj to Marry Him

This snippet of "All Night Long," the next song to leak from Drake's forthcoming Thank Me Later, seems to be missing at least a Bun B verse if not--as rumor has it--one from Lil Wayne himself. Not missing? Drake sort of proposing to his Young Money comrade in arms, Queens rapstress Nicki Minaj. Th ... More >>

Live: Drake Offers Up Chicken Breasts and Pinot Grigio at S.O.B.'s

Drake S.O.B.'s Tuesday, May 26 The banner behind the stage at S.O.B.'s last night' read, "Who's Next" but Drake, the Degrassi-famous member of Lil' Wayne's Yung Money crew, is right now. He's the finished product with a movie star smirk that seems to suggest he genuinely appreciates the love whil ... More >>

Is It Too Early To Do A Swine Flu Song Post?

Probably. But since swine flu officially murdered Cinco De Mayo, the soddenly drunken, potentially bandito-inspired holiday we all now can't celebrate, we have nothing better to do. Plus, the Streets just released a whole zombie flick/song about this deadly plague--see above. So why not? Mike Skin ... More >>

On "City Lights," Featuring Redman, Method Man, and UGK

Rap's 36-posts-or-so-per-mp3-blog-a-day regimen hasn't had nearly the same obliterative effect on the music itself as it has in, say, indie rock: If anything, it makes tracks by veterans like Red and Meth seem like major events, when in reality both of those guys have spent the better part of two ... More >>

SXSW 2009: Top Five Wholly Subjective Austin Moments, Starring Dent May, Micachu, and Metallica

Nate "Igor" SmithJust some guy Two red-eye flights there and back, a night in a camper without a pillow or blanket, another crashed uninvited on an angry stranger's futon, no consistent shower or WiFi in sight--with pilgrimages like this, I think you're supposed to find God, but instead I found Den ... More >>

Bun B Is Like A Wise, Caring Uncle

On the heels of the really solid interview that Tom Breihan conducted with Bun B this morning comes some satisfyingly on-point financial/spiritual advice from the Houston rapper: "Take a look at yourself and what you've been doing and how you've been living and see if that's who you really need to ... More >>

I Knew M.I.A. Was Pregnant Before You

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

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 39 & 40

Bun B and Prodigy, On Their Own

Emotionally fraught solo nods get paranoid, triumphant

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 37

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 35 & 36

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 29

Preview: Bun B's New Album II Trill

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 21

How to Rob, by M.I.A.

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

The Year's Best Music Videos

Pimp C is Dead

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

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 5

UGK's Underground Kingz

Overdue Southern comfort

Track 18 Wins Again

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

Dizzee Rascal Returns, Destroys

A Road-Trip Playlist

When Streetwear Goes. . . Legit: Weeklydrop On Satellite Radio?

New York Rap is Regional Rap

The New Jay-Z Album: A Bad Idea?

Trae: Rap as Paralyzing Depression

The Friends of Diplo: A Report Card

Things I Learned Watching the Official Smack DVD

Scarface Stubbornly Refuses to Make an Actual Album

Origins of Totalitarianism

Lycanthropy

Carnies, wolves, and goblin cocks transmogrify CMJ indie-rock fest

R&B for the Thugs, From the Ladies, With Help From the South