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Hit-Boy: Split With GOOD Music Was Amicable; "Dealing With Other Humans Is a Struggle"

Hit-Boy sounds like a superhero name when you say it over and over again while talking with his publicists. The same conversation can also make you realize Hit-Boy is currently an "it boy" in production circles. It was his Grammy winning composition, "Niggas In Paris," that would get the "rewind se ... More >>

Rocko Signed Future -- Who Was Then Known As Meathead the Future -- and U.O.E.N.O. It

Rocko is much more than the astronomical, controversial smash, "U.O.E.N.O." He's been around for years, having signed to Def Jam in 2006, but U.O.E.N.O. it. He's more than just a rapper, having signed Future years ago when his name was Meathead the Future, but you don't even know that either. In fac ... More >>

TV on the Radio - Brooklyn Academy of Music - 4/27/13

Better Than: Their headlining set at Pitchfork in 2011. TV On The Radio is at an interesting crossroads. After completing a three-album deal with Interscope, the Brooklyn four-piece is returning to the fold with a reinvigorated passion for their craft. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe revealed to Spin ... More >>

The Five Best NYC Rap Albums That Never Happened

This week, while we've taken a loving look back at the finest album-length offerings that the home of hip-hop has contributed to the genre, we're also reminded of the empty spaces in our record collections where masterpieces should sit. It's heartbreaking enough that rap in an album form didn't catc ... More >>

Bilal's New A Love Surreal Was Inspired By Salvador Dali

Even though Bilal Sayeed Oliver -- that's Bilal, to his fans -- has a new album, A Love Surreal, ready for fans to consume, he is still hounded by that one question: Will Love for Sale ever get the proper release it deserves? "Well, I don't know," Oliver says. "I would like for it to, but it's a lo ... More >>

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Pazz & Jop: Kendrick Lamar, Finally Compton's Most Wanted

It took quite some time for the rapper to become an overnight success

Pazz & Jop: Taylor Swift, Grimes, and Lana Del Rey: The Year in Blond Ambition

How dare they have an image

The Ten Best New York City Rap Albums of 2012

There's been a repetition about year-end New York rap round-ups for a while now. They usually involve noting how the city isn't the commercial powerhouse of hip-hop it once was (shocker!), and then speculating on whether a few artists might be somehow bringing it back (from precisely which era is ne ... More >>

The Next EP-isode

The long(ish) player gets reborn in the digital age

Madonna Has an Identity Crisis on MDNA

Who's that girl?

Lana Del Rey Just Wants to Be Loved

Lana Del Rey Perishes For The Internet's Sins In The "Born To Die" Video

​That Lana Del Rey's much-ballyhooed video for the title track from her forthcoming album Born To Die first appeared on a sketchy Russian site (via Pitchfork) is all too appropriate, given that it opens and closes with the footage of the endlessly discussed singer standing topless in front of ... More >>

Lana Del Rey Hides in Plain Sight

This is my confession

Live: Skylar Grey Peeks Out From Behind The Curtain

by Steven J. Horowitz ​Skylar Grey Dominion Tuesday, December 6 Better than: Remembering how much you listened to Evanescence back in the day. Skylar Grey has hustled the last couple of years, writing hits for everyone but herself along the way. The 25-year-old helped pen 2010's "Love the W ... More >>

100 & Single: What Billboard's Rule Changes Mean For The Britney, Michael And Gaga Albums You Bought

When you go see a movie at a Saturday half-price matinee, should it count toward that weekend's box office? You paid less than the guy who saw the movie Friday night. Does that mean your viewing shouldn't count? What about if you see an old movie at a revival house: Should that count toward the box ... More >>

50 Cent Is Done With The Album-Releasing Game

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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 >>

"American Idol" Season 10: Ozzfest, Bleep-Outs, And The Persistence Of Will.I.Am

Michael Becker/FOX​About five minutes after Pia Toscano's shock elimination last week, rumors surfaced that she'd signed a big deal with Interscope. Now, a major label deal is pretty much what all these kids are competing for in the first place, and this is the first time I can ever remember a ... More >>

Top Five Train-Wreck Rappers

​The Berkley-based rapper Lil B plays the Highline Ballroom on Thursday; for curious New York gawkers, it's a chance to see the world's foremost proponent of a new movement you could kindly term train-wreck rappers -- those artists whose every youthful indiscretion, ill-advised comment, physic ... More >>

Q&A: Yelawolf Talks Dubstep, Harmony Korine, and Trunk Muzik 0-60

Hannibal Matthews​Yelawolf began the year with the mixtape Trunk Muzik and he's wrapping up his 2010 with a major label EP, Trunk Muzik 0-60, out today. Between the internet release of his mixtape and the EP's arrival in stores, Yelawolf signed to Interscope records, toured with Wiz Khalifa, s ... More >>

Ten Reasons Why Dr. Dre's Detox Will Be Great

Does this man have another classic in him?​Dr. Dre's long, long awaited Detox has received its latest release date, this time via a press release from Interscope's London office guaranteeing that hip-hop's most-awaited album will touch down on "February 2011." The project's first single, "Kush ... More >>

Lloyd Banks Also Has A New Album Out This Week, Everybody

​As previously noted with regards to Nicki Minaj, this is an absolutely terrible week to put out a record if you are anyone other than Kanye West, who with his 10.0 reviews and $3.99 Amazon sales will be hogging every last bit of the spotlight in his (failed, ultimately, probably?) quest to ou ... More >>

Download Penguin Prison's "A Funny Thing," A Really Excellent and Deadpan Synth-Pop Jam That Dude Will Surely Play at Santos Party House Tonight

Yes In My Backyard is a semiweekly column showcasing MP3s from new and emerging local talent. Bjorn Looss​One-man dance party Penguin Prison is a colorful, ecstatic burst of manic electro that references New York's post-DFA boogieverse but has a joyful pop streak that extends further back, to ... More >>

Summer Guide: Kelis Tries For A Rebound

With her new album Flesh Tone, the "Milkshake" singer tries on some club-pop

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 7: Nicole Scherzinger, "Puakenikeni"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. In which the lead Pussycat Doll does her best Georgia O'Keefe impersonation, and nobody notices.

We Live In A World Where MGMT Could Lose A Grammy To Hall & Oates

​Hey the Grammy nominations were announced. Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Black Eyed Peas, Taylor Swift, Maxwell (!!), etc. Best Male Solo Rock Performance is staggeringly old (Dylan, Young, Springsteen, Fogerty, Prince). Best Metal Performance ain't so youthful neither (Slayer, Megadeth, Judas Priest, ... More >>

On Charles Hamilton, Joe Budden, Asher Roth, and the Perils of Internet Oversharing

Welcome to rap's online overdose

Remixes From the Masses

Trent Reznor embraces populism, and another great NIN remix album is born

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Q-Tip

Cleared for Takeoff

Visa issues resolved, M.I.A. can finally show us what she learned while in exile

Do the Collapse

More pompous but occasionally thrilling annihilation from the TOD boys

Friday 8/11

Extraordinary Machines

We didn't get what we wanted but we haven't entirely lost what we had

Teen TV Star No Stranger to Beautiful Celebrity Music

Married to the Hook

The corporations murdered hiphop and all I got was this lousy G-Unit throwback jersey

A Simple Struggle

Record nerds with great licks and hair avoid marginality

Eating Again

Electric Lady Land

Innocence Executed by Ohm

Roger's Big Night Out

Hip-Hop Goes Commercial

Rappers Give Madison Avenue a Run for Its Money

Money for Nothin'

And The Perks For Free

Le Freak, C'est Chic

Atomic Prog

Labels and Labeling

Five Corporations Cope With Content

Hollywood Babble On

Easy, Senators! There’s enough money for everybody.

Quasiphenia

Music

Hocus Focus

Focus Groups Move Out of the Office

Consumer Guide