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30 Rock's Most Hilarious Rap References

30 Rock wraps up tonight, as the Tina Fey-penned show signs off with its final episode. During the show's seven seasons of hilarity, it's never been shy of weaving rap references into its script (a tick helped by Donald Glover a/k/a/ Childish Gambino holding down a writer's position at one point). S ... More >>

The Top 15 Hip-Hop Songs About Police Misconduct

Though artists like Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye and Baby Huey spoke on police corruption, it wasn't until the dawn of the rap era that the message in the music began to convey the anger and frustration of people who had been systematically disenfranchised and brutalized since the United States was ... 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 >>

Live-Blogging The 2011 American Music Awards: We Could Have Had It All (But Then Adele Had To Go Have A Vocal Cord Hemorrhage)

Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 2011 American Music Awards, the annual salute to the most popular popular music that exists in the American wild this year. While Lady Gaga and Adele and Beyoncé are absent, this year's show apparently has one performance that will cost $500,000 to pul ... More >>

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

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D-Grade Rap Star Possibly "Riding Dirty" with Newly Minted Baller-Status Michael Arrington, Other Nerds

​Remember rapper Chamillionaire ("Chameleon" "Millionaire"), who had that song about "Riding Dirty" that was less about unspeakable sex acts we'd probably rather not want to catch him in the middle of rather than the proposition of being pulled over by law enforcement officials with illicit ... More >>

The Ten Most Exploitative Posthumous Rap Projects

​Being a dead rap artist isn't much fun. Whether The Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, or J Dilla, death has never seemed to do much to alleviate the constant pressure on artists to muster up new recordings to satisfy the bulging posthumous rap retail market. (In the hip-hop world, possessing a heart t ... 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

Hey Neat, The Daily SXSW Showcase Schedule Has Been Posted, So You Can Plan Your Itinerary If You're Going, Which, Yeah, Great, Good For You

​Oh, the places you'll go. Namely Buffalo Billiards (Das Racist! Andrew W.K.!), La Zona Rosa (Chamillionaire and Paul Wall!), Stubb's (Broken Social Scene!), Aces Lounge (Solange Knowles!), and so forth. Have fun, but don't forget about the Voice's own fete, featuring Surfer Blood, Superchunk, ... More >>

Does This Think Piece Make Me Look Gay?

​"In the very act of trying to 'purify' an utterance of any gayness, after all, the no homo tag must contaminate it first--it's both a denial and a flashing neon arrow. This isn't to suggest that saying no homo is a radical act, but there's an appealing sense in which the phrase refuses to fun ... More >>

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

Preview: Bun B's New Album II Trill

Killer Mike's Long-Lost Time-Capsule Album

Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix

Track 18 Wins Again

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

Wyclef Jean's The Carnival II and Pitbull's The Boatlift

Two big shots rock the boat people

The Death of Disco

The frantic rise and fatal fall of hip-hop producer Disco D

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Summer's Best Singles

Totally Use Your Illusion, Dude

Rap stars see how the other half lives

Three 6 Mafia's Cracker Protege Returns

Lil Wayne: Still Ridiculously Great

RIP Disco D

The BET Hip-Hop Awards: A Running Diary

Dare to Be Stupid

In defense, praise, and unrelenting awe of the increasingly vital Weird Al

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

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

Scarface Stubbornly Refuses to Make an Actual Album

Rap's David Banner Threatens to Kill Music Industry