Eminem

Buzz Off, Rihanna, Flo Rida, and Ke$ha! Here's Why I Hate Music!

If I sang this column onstage, you would make a shitty phone video of it

Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap

Kid Cudi

100 & Single: Lady Gaga Gets Ready To Join The Million-Weeker Club

​The phrase "the calm before the storm" appears in virtually every chart-related story this week. That's because the latest edition of the Billboard 200, which covers sales from the week ending May 22, is topped by Adele's 21. That album is No. 1 for the ninth and (presumably) final week befor ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Concerts Of 2010, Starring Jay-Z, Pavement, And Michael Bolton

Stephen Malkmus, at the first of Pavement's 50 shows here. Pics by Rob unless noted otherwise.​The 100-plus shows I saw this year spanned from the Cake Shop to Radio City Music Hall, from Williamsburg block parties to Michael Bolton's house in Connecticut, the events that occurred therein all ... More >>

Detroit Rap City: Jay-Z and Eminem Kick-Start A Hometown Recovery

Jay-Z And Eminem Will Probably Be Bringing A Shit-Ton Of Famous People With Them To Yankee Stadium

​Jay-Z and Eminem began their triumphant two-city, four-show run last night at Detroit's Comerica Park, and if that show's any indication, when they show up at Yankee Stadium September 13 and 14, they'll be bringing along every famous rapper they (or you) can think of.

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 >>

The-Dream Sold 58,000 Copies of Love King

​The-Dream's Love King--by our own Rob Harvilla's estimation, the r&b auteur's "third-straight deliriously triumphant solo album"--debuts at #4 on the Billboard charts this week, selling 58,000 copies of a record that's about a third as good as last year's Love Vs. Money (which, whaddya know, ... More >>

Eminem Supports Same-Sex Marriage!

​Yes, the verbally gay bashing rapper has now surpassed his old duetting partner, Elton John by coming out in favor of gays marrying! Elton, you'll remember, was not only Rush Limbaugh's paid minstrel at the conservative's traditional marriage ceremony, but he said in an interview that he fee ... More >>

Hear Aziz Ansari and Dave Sitek's Bravura Rap Attack "AAAAAAAANGRY (with eight A's)"

​A worthy successor to "How to Rob," if not "Second Round Knock Out," even if you hate laughing. Over five minutes formerly Brooklynite and world-beating comedian Aziz Ansari goes in on everyone from Dre to Eminem to Clipse to Kid Cudi, with the same loving attention to detail and hilarity he ... More >>

Swagger Like Who? Welcome to "Forever," Featuring Drake, Kanye, Lil Wayne, and Eminem

Well, now I guess we know why Jay-Z didn't let Drake rap on "Off That." Big event rap records--this one, self-defeatingly, is destined for the soundtrack of the LeBron James doc More Than a Game--haven't really lived up to their billing in hip-hop's email era. It's too easy for rappers to literall ... More >>

Week in Review: I've Never Seen So Many Sick Weirdos Gathered in One Place

Rebecca Smeyne In the week one of us had to publicly defend himself against the crime of using the phrase "Fey Highwayman," we watched with amusement as close SOTC affiliate Christopher R. Weingarten became a viral video poster boy for the death of music criticism. Poetic choice of t-shirts, Chris! ... More >>

Week in Review: Young, Self-Satisfied, Confident Celebrities

In the week "I ain't shoot nobody in like...since the early 90's" irretrievably entered the American lexicon, we learned with some dismay that David Carradine very likely left this earth the hard way. And more grim news: Koko Taylor, 1928-2009. Live: Doves cry at Terminal Hall, Art Brut's second-ni ... More >>

The Atlantic Introduces Eminem to Obama

It's oddly timed (is this piece really pegged to Eminem's release date?), but The Atlantic is currently hosting a roundtable discussion on hip-hop in the age of Obama, a topic we once wrote a few thousand words about (more than once, actually), and remain sort of obsessed with. The panelists: Hua Hs ... More >>

Week in Review: Swine Flu False Alarm Total Panic Edition

In the week that we thought maybe we had swine flu, ran frightened from our offices, wandered the East Village for hours looking for wireless or a good doctor, and eventually received an email with the subject line "It's NOT Swine Flu," we sheepishly came back to our desks, only to find an army of c ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

Asher Roth, Upper-Middle-Class and Rising

Say hello to the white (but not white-trash) rapper du jour

Commence Descent Into Madness, Sadness: Eminem's "We Made You"

We challenge any and all sentient human beings to get through this song three or more times, as we just almost did. So many questions: from where is this abysmal accent, which I'll venture is vaguely Arabic (open to corrections here), coming? What could possibly be interesting to one of the bigges ... More >>

The Really Real Slim Shady

Remember Eminem? He was that brilliant white rapper--and, amazingly, Oscar winner--with an unfortunate taste for hating on the gays and his mother. Well, for years a gussied-up group called Dalipstyxx fought back with a spoof song called "I Wish I Was Eminem" ("He dresses in drag/No one calls HIM ... More >>

Kid Sister's Dream Date: The New Chinese Democracy?

Now that the Chinese Democracy release-date pools are through, we've been left with only two things to wager: 1) When is Gregg Gillis gonna get the track-suit pants sued off him? (Those "I am a PC" ads must pay; I say this May.) ; 2) What will the next unicorn will be? Chicagoist thinks Kid Sister ... More >>

A Heaping Pile of Salacious Blind Items!

Who did what to whom? When? How? Where? (Don't ask why.)

DMX Has a Greatest-Hits Album

Silver Monk Time: A Tribute to the Monks

The Uberbeat (and a war or two) goes on

Wiggerstock

White lines: A new book examines hip-hop's crossover appeal

Live: The Hold Steady Deny Involvement in Page 6 Scandal

Three 6 Mafia: Oscar Nominees

Does Kanye West Deserve the Grammy?

The Source Under Fire

Here's Your Guide to the Lawsuits, Criminal Charges, and Beefs

Heads, Future and Past

Finally a chance to catch up on all those new bands. Well, maybe not bands exactly . . .

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Everything Is Illuminated

The Critics Speak

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Music

Detroit What?

Theater

Pazz & Jop Preview

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Letters

Byterock’s Greatest Hits

The Politics of Napping

Getting Them Straight

Hot S**t for Teacher

Shimmy Shimmy Ko Ko Bop All the Way Home

Celebrity Bigots

Why Hate is Hot

The 1999 Pazz & Jop Critics’ Poll

Rev That Azz Up

Nervous Rhythms, Chopped-Up Language, Thumping Slapstick Pop

Flak On Both Sides

Moby and Merritt Vs. Hitters and Cheerleaders in a Bad Year for Nerds

Death Rock 2000

Not Selling Any Alibis