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Six Very Important Takeaways From Big K.R.I.T.'s Album Listening Party

Hotly hyped Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. had a listening party for his much-delayed album Live From The Underground (Def Jam) last night! It went down at Fight Klub Studios in Manhattan, and SOTC pried out six pieces of information (both pertinent and willfully trivial) about the project, which w ... More >>

Hit Machines: The Ten Best Singles Runs From Post-Confessions R&B Albums

In his recent review of R&B singer Miguel's fantastic Art Dealer Chic series of EPs, The A.V. Club's Evan Rytlewski explained the singer's rise in popularity by floating the idea that his 2010 album All I Want Is You contained "arguably the most engaging singles run of any R&B album since Usher's Co ... More >>

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 >>

Oddsmaking: Best Country Solo Performance, Where Ludacris's Stamp Of Approval Makes A Difference

As part of this year's larger reduction in genre-specific awards, 2012 will see the country portion of the Grammys streamlined to just four categories: Best Solo Performance (which swallows Male and Female Vocal Performance), Best Duo/Group Performance (which swallows Best Duo/Group Vocal Performanc ... More >>

The 11 Most Infuriating Songs Of 2011, No. 10: will.i.am Featuring Mick Jagger And Jennifer Lopez, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)"

​The Song: will.i.am feat. Mick Jagger and Jennifer Lopez, "T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever)" The Crimes: Overhashtagging, sub-"Dancing In The Streets" incoherence from Jagger, using "feces" as a term of braggadocio. Sometimes I feel bad for the music industry, which has had a rough go of it these ... More >>

Q&A: 2 Chainz On Giving Back, Being Independent, And Fitting Work Into Every Hour Of His Day

​What's in a name? The storied quote would imply that a rapper by any other name is still just as [fill in the blank], but 2 Chainz, the Playaz Circle member who was better known as Tity Boi until fairly recently, might have a different perspective. Since switching nom de plumes, the Georgia ... 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 >>

Why Is Bill O'Reilly Not Calling Out Mike Huckabee's Gangster Glorification?

​"You may remember a couple years ago that Pepsi hired gansta (sic) rapper Ludacris as a commercial pitchman. [I] objected, saying major American corporations have an obligation not to reward people who harmed society...Unlike Ozzy Osbourne, who curses, or Britney Spears, who's an immature ex ... More >>

Week In Review: You Know We Were Kidding About That Best Year Ever Thing, Right?

A thing that happened. Photo by Phil Freeman.​In the week we debated whether 2010 was the best year for music ever (you guys know that was a joke, right?), we pitted Chris Brown against Katy Perry, Titus Andronicus against LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift against M.I.A., and house music against h ... More >>

The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #8: Ludacris featuring Nicki Minaj, "My Chick Bad"

F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. ​Your chick ain't the only thing that's bad...

A People's History of Summer Jam 2010

Drake debuts, Trey Songz gyrates, and DJ Khaled wins at the hip-hop event of the year

Law & Order's Five Most Ridiculous Rapper Cameos

​Law & Order ends its 20-year run tonight. Throughout the show's long reign, phalanxes of honorable detectives have cleaned the New York streets of crime and debris while throwing out witty one-liners and re-enacting plotlines ripped from real-life headlines. Grabbing a cameo on the show has a ... More >>

Magnum Condoms Embrace Hip-Hop, Encourage Consumers to Make Bad Rap

​Today's New York Times has an vaguely uncomfortable feeling article about Magnum condoms, the Trojan subbrand that "has been given an unsolicited lift by hip-hop artists," prompting company execs to turn to Ludacris as a spokesperson and bad slow jams as their new ad campaign. You might call ... More >>

Watch the Video for Usher and Nicki Minaj's "Lil Freak"

No real complaints about this song, but what's with the frustrating 2010 trend of having to sit through 2-3 minutes of Usher or Ludacris or Robin Thicke or Bobby V before we finally get a Nicki Minaj verse? No doubt the money is phenomenal right now for her but it'd be nice to just skip the part w ... More >>

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WTF: Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg Make Brownies, Rap About Weed

Martha Stewart's love of rap is nothing new. She's had Puff Daddy and Ludacris on her show, and claims to have repeatedly invited her favorite rapper, Eminem. But this segment with Snoop Dogg making brownies might come as something of a surprise. Especially when the two start rapping about pot bro ... More >>

Booze News--Ludacris Launches Cognac; Gastropubs Lag in Gastronomy

The farm-to-glass movement parallels the farm-to-table movement, only the chefs are of the bar variety. Such bar chefs prefer to shop for fresh produce at farmers markets and organic-food stores, and shun pre-mixed syrups and bottled juices. [USA Today] Upscale gastropubs are getting the pub part r ... More >>

Sporadically Vibrant Reports From the R&B Salt Mines with Ciara and Chrisette Michele

New jams for low-riders and supper clubs, respectively

Jimmy Fallon/Roots Watch Continues: My God Rappers Sound Good on This Show

It did not occur until just now that the Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon makes this particular 30 Rock soundstage into absolute ground zero for live rap. You now have arguably hip-hop's best live act, in residence: willing and able support for anybody with an album out. Jay-Z. Nas. T.I. Blac ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R.E.M., Ludacris, Frost/Nixon, Authors Pick Obscure Books, and More

Ludacris Raids His Rolodex

A veteran plays up his Hollywood success, defends his goofy-rapper legacy

Film-Noir Snow Globe: John Moore’s Max Payne

Guy Ritchie Returns to Form, For Better Or Worse, in RocknRolla

The BET Awards: A Running Diary

Live: Hot 97's Summer Jam

Hot 97's Summer Jam: A Preview

The Grammy Awards: A Running Diary

Trick Daddy Keeps It Ugly

The BET Hip-Hop Awards: A Running Diary

Timbaland Gets Richer

Jay-Z is Afraid to Fight

Freaknik Goes Conscious, But Not Overly So

A For-the-Ladies Slow-Jam Report Card

Ludacris Beefs With Oprah Winfrey

Three 6 Mafia: A Post-Oscar Progress Report

The Oscars: A Return to Boring

Glamour, heartbreak, and some interpretive dance

Horoscope

Dirty-Dirty Deeds

As O'Reilly's nemesis lip-smacks toward financial future, Rubber Band Man one-ups him

Butt Seriously

From The Book of J.Lo: We may be through with the ass but the ass isn't through with us

Nashville Catches Up

A pair of country goofballs boogaloo down Broadway with their rappin' buttload of friends

Rap, Rage, REDvolution

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

MLK Fever

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

Beneath the Arch, Thurr's No Business Like Ho Business

Not Hop, Stomp

The Hiphop Soda Pop Shake-Up

Is Rap vs. Pepsi a New Step or 'Same Ole Two Step'?

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