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The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 10 - 1

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 >>

Rap Songs That Sample Shuggie Otis

Cult funkateer Shuggie Otis plays the Highline tonight. Despite his talent as a multi-instrumentalist and savvy singer-songwriter, Otis's career never quite went mainstream back in the '70s, but his legacy has been well served thanks to a judiciously reissued back catalogue and a series of rap types ... More >>

Live: Boiler Room NYC with Flying Lotus, Just Blaze, Questlove, Flatbush Zombies

Better Than: Watching the Internet.Boilerroom.tv has become a sort of voyeuristic dream party for DJ nerds over the last year or so. Proudly self-branded as "the world's leading underground music show," the website is sponsored by a handful of lifestyle-branded music partnerships - Red Bull Music Ac ... More >>

Hip-Hop's 25 Best Weed Songs

In honor of today being 4/20—every smoker's favorite day of the year—SOTC has compiled the 25 Best Rap Songs relating to weed. Though some may be more about bud than others, all are guaranteed to make your high all the more enjoyable. Be forewarned, though... this list doesn't have any h ... More >>

The 18 Best Rapper Movies

Since the days of Wild Style and Krush Groove, rappers have put their music on hold and delved into the film world. A bunch of these efforts were pretty bad—remember Ice-T in Leprechaun in the Hood—while others were so bad they were good. Cam crying in Killa Season or KRS fleeing the sce ... More >>

Sound Of The City's March Madness Begins With An Uptown Faceoff Between Diddy (4) And Dipset (13)

The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which we determine the quintessential New York musician—launches this morning with a series of polls. Up first: Harlem's quintessential hip-hop cadre, Dipset, takes on the genre's megamogul, Diddy. Check out the argu ... More >>

Jim Jones Masterminds the Vampire Life

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Live: Chris Webby Packs Irving Plaza, Scowls While Doing So

​Chris Webby Irving Plaza Thursday, December 29 Better than: A Republican debate. Chris Webby has "203" inked across his right side, a gothic "Connecticut" burned into the skin beneath his neck. There are the scattered images of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mario Brothers and Transformers a ... More >>

Seven Sets You Should See During CMJ Week: Main Attrakionz, EMA, Dierks Bentley, And More

Main Attrakionz. ​ Sound of the City's staff has opinions about which bands to see at the CMJ festival, happening around the city this week. Here, Nick Murray offers his seven picks—well, six festival-affiliated artists and one dude who just happens to have a couple of NY-area shows this ... More >>

Live: Fool's Gold Day Off Party Turns into a Relay Rave

Fools Gold Day Off City Winery Monday, September 5 Better than: Catching bullets at a parade. New York City empties out on Labor Day weekend, but for the past two years those who've stuck around have been able to see behind the curtain on what's next, on what's nexter-than-next, and the emerging ... More >>

Live: Rick Ross Lives Out His Dreams At Summer Jam

​Hot 97 Summer Jam New Meadowlands Stadium Sunday, June 5 Better than: Sitting at home and moping like 50 Cent. Rick Ross closed out Summer Jam. Just so there's no revisionist history here, let's remember how incredible that statement is. Three years ago, Ross was the punching bag of hip-h ... More >>

Local Writer Says Farewell

​In 2005, the Village Voice's music editor, Chuck Eddy, its web editor, Nick Catucci, and their intern, Nick Sylvester, had the novel idea that the Voice's music section might become something more than a once a week proposition. The eventual result of this idea was something called Riff Raff, ... More >>

This Week's Voice: Winter Arts Guide, Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday, Iron & Wine, the Dipset Reunion, and More

Nicki Minaj, the O. Henry of rap. Photo by Howard Huang.​In this week's Village Voice, we present our Winter Arts Guide, featuring Mikael Wood on Iron & Wine's new record, Aaron Hillis in conversation with British actress Lesley Manville, James Hannaham's winter books picks, Ben Davis on artis ... More >>

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 Dipset Reunion Is Nigh, If This Footage Of Everyone Hanging Out At A Construction Site (?!) Is To Be Believed

So in large part the above video consists, hilariously, of Cam'ron, Juelz Santana, Jim Jones, and Freekey Zekey pulling up and getting out of their respective cars really ominously, and yet it shows the four founding members of Harlem's finest slightly esoteric hip-hop clique standing together and ... More >>

Live: The Drive-By Truckers Reek Of "Dude" At Webster Hall

Drive-By Truckers Webster Hall Thursday, April 1 I admire these dudes (who appear in these pages, virtual and literal, with alarming frequency) for distilling complicated societal ills into one compact, blunt, blaring, paradoxically rousing burst of Southern rock: What "The Man I Shot" did for th ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Interview: Just Blaze Talks Baseline Studios, From the Making of Jay-Z's The Blueprint to the End of an Era

"For The Blueprint, Jay-Z literally just walked into the studio one day and was like, 'Anybody got some beats?'" Kanye mourns, 1.30.10.​Last Thursday, when producer Justin "Just Blaze" Smith announced he was closing shop at Baseline Studios, longtime recording homebase for Roc-A-Fella Records ... More >>

Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

Week in Review: Like a Sexy Swedish Chick in a Natural Mineral Sauna

Yup, this photo was taken in 2009, by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week Chuck Schumer became a bike-riding, Williamsburg Pool Party-saving hipster man of the people, we roamed far and wide over his most precious borough, from an Obama Fried Chicken in Brownsville to the very likely defunct N8 to the ... More >>

The Clipse Come to Cam'ron for the "Popular Demand (Popeyes)" Video

When, back in August, we asked the Clipse about this song--which was only a rumor at that point--this is what they told us: And a song with Cam'ron is still coming. Can you guys let go any info about that? Pusha: I like to say this is the New York record of all records. You know how, like--livin ... More >>

Interview: The Clipse on Till the Casket Drops, Their Official Position on "Girl Songs," and Whether Kanye Got Them on Their Own Song

"If they say anybody got us on anything, who better than Kanye?" ​ Right around this time three years ago, the Clipse were on the verge of releasing Hell Hath No Fury, their terminally delayed follow-up to 2002's Lord Willin'. Anger--at their label, Jive, for failing to promote them, and at t ... More >>

Week in Review: All I Have Left Are My Memories and This Copy of The Razor's Edge Signed by Asher Roth

Photo of Jim Jones taunting hipsters by Rebecca Smeyne​ In the week Jim Jones put ten thousand dollars on a three-on-three basketball tournament sponsored by Converse and barred to the media, we got up in there anyway, and brought you the hilarious play-by-play. Take that, shoe company. Gera ... More >>

The "Who's Real" Remix: Most Improbable Ruff Ryders Reunion Ever

Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

In his previous mayoral campaigns, Mike Bloomberg has cut deals with Randi Weingarten's teachers' union that have eased his way to victory. But they also also stiffed charter schools and thwarted any hope of a real turnaround in our school system. Wayne Barrett tells us why this could be -- and sho ... More >>

Just About the Most Unsurprising Cam'ron News Ever

Where was Cam'ron when Barack Obama got sworn in? Does Cam vote? Did you vote for Barack? Um, nah. I didn't--I didn't vote. For the record, I'm pretty sure Juelz did. [2DopeBoyz]

This Enormously Disturbing, Eyeball-Lacerating 50 Cent-Narrated Sex Tape Is, Sadly, Not the Only One of Its Kind

Screenshot via 2DopeBoyz, where they've posted the whole sorry tape, which is where we reluctantly draw the line Different sex tape entirely--didn't Cam look young in '02? So the above is nominally 50 Cent's revenge on Rick Ross for a crime whose origins are already murky at best--Ross made fun of ... More >>

Week in Review: The Really Angry and Mean Outtakes

photo of Lady Sovereign by Rebecca Smeyne In the week we mourned Lux Interior, we also noted William Burrough's birthday, and the anniversary of Sid Vicious's death. Did you hear Bruce Springsteen played the Super Bowl? And rammed his pelvis directly into the national mood? Sports were a weird c ... More >>

On Rick Ross's Terrible 50 Cent Diss "Kiss My Pinky Ring, Curly"

Didn't Cam'ron already prove that saying a rapper looks like a random animal isn't exactly the way to end someone's career? Except for maybe your own? I swear, Rick Ross says the word "monkey" 50 times in two minutes here. Plus: "You shoulda fucked her"? 50 Cent should've fucked Rick Ross's baby's ... More >>

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Singles

The Quarterly Report: Winter's Best Albums

Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 13

The Best Thing About Year-End Top Ten Lists

Music

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

A Road-Trip Playlist

Flow Charts

Akon's singer-who-awkwardly-raps routine was stolen and perfected by the ladies he covets

Jay-Z is Afraid to Fight

Things I Learned Watching Cam'ron's Killa Season

After the Snow

The mirror crack'd: Last year, a drug and its discontents seeped into books and hip-hop

The Quarterly Report: Status's Favorite New Singles

Mariah Carey Beats 50 Cent on Billboard Year-End List?

Country's Right-Wing Hell-Raisers Montgomery Gentry Destroy New York

Cam'ron Almost Killed in DC

Thizz Sporting Life

A late rapper from the bay, hallucinating all about tennis

Home Game

Local ragtaggers get the love; spurned child takes the hate

Listen (Without Prejudice)

Uncle Dave's daily music enjoyment program

Love Letters Extra

Gangsta Homonyms

Obsessive-compulsive rap artist repeats repeats repeats

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