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  • Blogs

    March 29, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Miles Davis (2) And Public Enemy (7) Go At It In SOTC's March Madness

    ​Sound of the City's search for the quintessential New York City musician enters Round Two this week, with battles in the Round of 32 daily. Keep up with all the action here. In round one of Sound Of The City's March Madness, jazzmaster Miles Davis dispatched Cyndi Lauper with tonally perfect blo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Mariah Carey (10) Battles With Public Enemy (7) In SOTC's Search For The Ultimate New York Musician

    ​The Round of 64 for Sound of the City's own version of March Madness—in which you, the Sound of the City voting public, help determine the quintessential New York musician—finishes up this week, with the Round of 32 scheduled to kick off Monday. (The schedule and results so far are he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    Nine Culinary Ventures By Hip-Hop Artists

    Today, excitable Long Island-raised rap firebrand Flavor Flav will open his House Of Flavor restaurant in Las Vegas. The restaurant—which will have fried chicken and something called a "red velvet waffle" on the menu—is Flav's second attempt to break into the food world, following the di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Live: Portishead And Jeff Mangum Come Out Of The Shadows In Asbury Park

    All Tomorrow's Parties: I'll Be Your Mirror Asbury Park, NJ September 30-October 2 Better than: Your favorite worn-out band tee. Timelessness isn't a foresight. Most experiences can't predict their own longevity, and as much as any creator strives to avoid miring his or her work in a dated exterio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40

    ​ When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2011

    The Five Best Moments On Yo! MTV Raps

    MTV turns 30 on Monday. To celebrate, we're running a bunch of pieces on the channel, its legacy, and its future. ​ Debuting during the golden year of '88, Yo! MTV Raps revolutionized TV coverage of hip-hop music. Of course, hip-hop videos existed long before Yo! launched—Grandmaster Fl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Screech Is a Juggalo

    Juggal-uh-ohs will never dieYesterday, Charlie Sheen took to Twitter to confirm that the Access Hollywood creature would be hosting one night of this year's 12th annual Gathering of the Juggalos. Soonafter Sheen's four-million followers learned that Sheen is Down with the Clown, Psychopathic Records ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #10: Name The Hosts Of Yo! MTV Raps

    ​Recently our hackles were raised after a concerned Park Slope resident (or, as reports increasingly indicate, a gifted troll) sent out a petition hoping to keep a new club from playing the hip-hop music (gasp!) in yuppietacular Brooklyn. We could not imagine the anarchy if rap music ever hit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Top 10 Rap-Related Reality-TV Moments

    ​"Reality rap" was once a phrase invoked by gangsta rappers to defend their music against moral outcry from the mainstream media and pesky suburban dwellers. These days, the term largely refers to the slew of emcees lining up to star in their own TV shows. While Boogie Down Productions associa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    The Week in Food Blogs: Navigating Awkward Restaurant Situations; Sampling Flava Flav's Chicken

    This week in food blogs ... Eater posted its guide to navigating 10 different awkward restaurant situations. Grub Street revealed that a bar you can't find has closed. A Hamburger Today listed its favorite burgers in the city, including Bill's Bar and Burger's and Minetta Tavern's. Atlantic Food ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2011

    Download a Two-Part Tribute To Underappreciated Jay-Z Sidekick Memphis Bleek

    Bleek, doing what he does best. Photo via MySpace​He's probably the best rap hypeman ever to do it, short of maybe Flavor Flav. He's clearly a loyal and self-deprecating friend. He puts more talented people's interests above his own, always. And yet, no one cares. Jay-Z and Memphis Bleek met i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    The Top Ten Best Worst Singing Rappers

    ​These days, there's nothing attention grabbing about rappers who sing, whether it's Andre 3000's amped squawk, an Auto-Tune-enabled Kanye West, or Lil Wayne's upcoming Riker's Island shower room spirituals. This week the canon sees new album additions from one-time Goodie Mob member Cee-Lo Gr ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2010

    Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

    Helen Mirren will cut you, and other awesome old-people things, in Red

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    Mike Tyson's Top Ten Rap Cameos

    ​Reggie Rock Bythewood's One Night in Vegas, airing on ESPN tonight as part of the network's "30 for 30" documentary series, shines a light on the little known friendship and many parallels between tortured souls Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur. The title of Bythewood's documentary is a reference ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 4, 2010

    FIGHT THE POWER

    Public Enemy take over Central Park

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    The Heartbreaking Story of the Guy Who Invented the Vuvuzela

    ​By now, you know what a vuvuzela is: the crackhead, steroid-taking sibling of the diminutive kazoo that made its presence known to the universe at large during the World Cup, wherein, everyone at the World Cup had one, and were blowing their vuvuzelas. It sounds like hell. Of course, appropri ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Interview: Sleigh Bells Confirm That Treats Is Good For Exercise

    Phil KnottDerek Miller and Alexis Krauss Sleigh Bells, the Brooklyn duo of former school teacher Alexis Krauss and former waiter/Poison The Well guitarist Derek Miller, have a rather apocalyptic presence, as we've previously noted. Hearing Treats for the first time, you might think this is somebody ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2009

    News Roundup: Kurt Cobain Turned Guitar Hero Zombie, Aziz Ansari Remixes Kanye and Jay-Z, and That New LCD Soundsystem Record Sounds Crazy

    -Someone--presumably, Courtney Love--not only licensed the likeness of onetime living person Kurt Cobain to Guitar Hero 5, but also signed off making him an unlockable, playable character. The upshot? The horrendous video above, in which Cobain is helplessly piloted through Flavor Flav karaoke, Bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    Coachella 2009, By The Numbers

    David AtlasLeonard Cohen: hymnal, transcendant Clubs editor Stacey Anderson sojourned in Indio, California this past weekend for Coachella. She already covered the frantic play-by-play over at our Twitter, so we asked her to wrap-up the festival with a by-the-numbers guide to her three days in the ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2009

    The Diss-Track Family Tree

    Who to insult, how, and why

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Live: The Prodigy Wear White and Keep Moving at Roseland

    The Prodigy Roseland Ballroom Thursday, March 26 None of the nu-rave hipster cachet of opener Busy P, a solid decade since an MTV spin, the half-decent new Invaders Must Die LP that couldn't crack Billboard's Top 50--just who exactly is Prodigy's American audience? A quick glance around the total ... More >>

  • Music

    October 8, 2008

    VHI and Slick Rick, Together at Last at Hip-Hop Honors

    The channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies

  • Music

    August 5, 2008

    How Jamaica's Volatile Dancehall Scene Can Avoid a Biggie vs. Tupac Tragedy

    The channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2008

    Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam, Again

    The channel's cheerfully confounding tribute to rap's golden oldies

  • Books

    March 11, 2008

    Dean Wareham's Rememories

    Looking back at life in Luna and Galaxie 500

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2008

    Chuck D's Presidential Ambitions

    Looking back at life in Luna and Galaxie 500

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2006

    The BET Hip-Hop Awards: A Running Diary

    Looking back at life in Luna and Galaxie 500

  • Music

    August 15, 2006

    Spaghetti Eastern

    The Lordz, Brooklyn rap-rock's preeminent wiseguys, crank the bass and wax Soprano

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2006

    The MTV Movie Awards: A Running Diary

    The Lordz, Brooklyn rap-rock's preeminent wiseguys, crank the bass and wax Soprano

  • Music

    June 6, 2006

    Let the Eggplants Fly

    In which the new music editor emerges from hiding to get clocked in the head

  • Music

    May 16, 2006

    Radicals of the Moment

    Public enemies tricoastal, and that doesn't even count the Balkan guys

  • NYC Life

    September 27, 2005

    'Spin' Sugar

    Public Enemy, D.M.C., Lady Sovereign rock Spin magazine's 20th Anniversary party

  • Music

    January 25, 2005

    Harmonies and Abysses

    Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

  • Art

    January 11, 2005

    The Half-Life of Celebrity

    Let them eat stars: Pop-culture vultures circle the flesh of the semi-rich and famous on VH1

  • Art

    November 30, 2004

    Lowlight Reel

    A richness of televisual embarrassments: The annual duds

  • Music

    November 9, 2004

    White Freedom

    The angstiest wigga alive exercises privilege, bears cross, rallies flock, begs forgiveness

  • Music

    October 12, 2004

    Do-Gooders Do Good

    The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

  • News

    April 13, 2004

    Rap, Rage, REDvolution

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • Music

    March 18, 2003

    Music

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • Books

    July 23, 2002

    Dread Poets Society

    As hip-hop emerges as an empowering voice for indigenous youth, mainstream rappers still objectify Indian country

  • Music

    April 9, 2002

    Pop Goes the Composer

    Eve Beglarian and Friends Explore an Audiovisual Vernacular

  • Art

    January 8, 2002

    Hip-Hop Don’t Stop

    Eve Beglarian and Friends Explore an Audiovisual Vernacular

  • Music

    November 20, 2001

    Music

    Eve Beglarian and Friends Explore an Audiovisual Vernacular

  • Theater

    March 13, 2001

    Flava Flav and the Mad Hatter

    Eve Beglarian and Friends Explore an Audiovisual Vernacular

  • Music

    November 21, 2000

    Hip-Hoperation: Mindcrime

    Eve Beglarian and Friends Explore an Audiovisual Vernacular

  • Music

    July 25, 2000

    Five Years and Eight Hours

    Elastica Out of Control

  • Music

    December 21, 1999

    You Go, Grrrl!

    Elastica Out of Control

  • Music

    December 29, 1998

    Video God Madness

    Elastica Out of Control

  • News

    December 1, 1998

    Revenge of the Mad Rappers

    When hip hoppers use violence to silence their critics

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