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The Top 20 NYC Rap Albums of All Time: 20 - 11

Any list of the Greatest New York Rap Albums of All Time is, essentially, a list of simply the Greatest Rap Albums of All Time. The genre was invented here, after all, and over the years -- from early days to Golden Age and onward-- the city's hip-hop history has been an embarrassment of riches. Fas ... More >>

The High Point of the Knicks' Season Came and Went Before the Final Whistle Blew on Sunday

"The Knicks were built to beat the Miami Heat," someone said on ESPN before the start of yesterday's New York-Miami match. Yes, well that was then, earlier in the season, and this is now, as the Knicks lick their wounds and try to recover from the psychological shock of blowing a 16-point second qua ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

The Knicks take on the 76ers

NBA at Midseason: Can Anyone Stop the Knicks (From Completely Losing Steam)?

I love Stephen A. Smith, I really do, and it's great fun watching him play the Harlem Globetrotters to Skip Bayless's Washington Generals on ESPN's First Take. (And I really love Jay Pharoah's impression on SNL). But I'm getting a little tired of The Kobe Bryant Show. It isn't like the Lakers are o ... More >>

BEST OF NYC™
Have a Ball (And Puck and Uppercut): NYC Is Sportstown, U.S.A.

Live: Ab-Soul Turns In A Gutsy Solo Performance At S.O.B.'s

Ab-Soul S.O.B.'s Thursday, June 21 Better than: Watching the final fourth quarter of the 2011-2012 NBA season. For a crowd full of Thunder fans, Ab-Soul provided a much-needed distraction last night during his first New York headlining gig. In subtle contrast to the mighty LeBron James, Ab debut ... More >>

Why Didn't The Knicks Tank The Final Regular Season Game To Avoid Miami?

The New York Knicks were in an interesting predicament late last week as the NBA regular season was heading toward the finish line: They had the chance to choose their playoff opponent. Heading into the final two games of the regular season with identical records with the Philadelphia 76ers, the K ... More >>

The Knicks Lose, Behind 2-0, And Lose Yet Another Player, This Time To Stupidity

Well, the Knicks lost again to Miami, losing 104-94 to fall behind 2-0 to Miami Heat in this best of seven series. The good news is that the Knicks, as a whole, played much better--at least the game was competitive compared to last Sunday's humiliation. Carmelo Anthony--you know, the guy some New ... More >>

Note to Mike Woodson -- Don't blow it

"This series is not over," said Amar'e Stoudemire after Saturday's 100-67 slaughter of the Knicks at the hands of the Miami Heat. "We've got to learn from our mistakes today and get ready for the next one." Coincidentally, this is exactly how General; Custer's last dispatch from the Little Big Horn ... More >>

Knicks' 11 Year Long Playoffs Win Drought Continues, But Lin Could Be Back Soon

Eleven years. Exactly. Today, April 29, 2012, marks the 11th anniversary of the last Knicks playoff victory. And judging by yesterday's smackdown at the hands of the Miami Heat, this drought may continue. Especially considering that Iman Shumpert, the team's best perimeter defender by a mile--he ... More >>

The Knicks Take Their Talents To South Beach This Saturday--And Other Playoff Storylines

The NBA playoff bracket is set, and the Knicks will take their talents to South Beach this Saturday to play LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and the Miami Heat. It's a matchup that will garner more buzz than a typical two-seed-vs-seven-seed series, due of a myriad of subplots. First, these two teams ha ... More >>

Will The Knicks Make The Playoffs???

It was a good Sunday for the Knicks. Carmelo Anthony had his best game of the season, scoring 43 points, including two long three pointers in the final seconds of the 4th quarter and overtime--the former forced overtime, and the latter won the game. That the Knicks did it over the team with the be ... More >>

Everything You Need To Know About Jeremy Lin's Injury and How It Will Affect The Knicks

The Knicks' absolute bipolar, roller-coaster of a season took yet another turn with news today that Jeremy Lin will undergo knee surgery to repair a torn meniscus. The surgery will sideline him for six weeks, and while most media, whether out of optimism or caution, are reporting that Lin's finished ... More >>

Museum of Chinese in America to Hold Viewing Party on a Night the Knicks May Lose Badly

​As has been reported to death the last couple of weeks by media around the city--the emergence of Jeremy Lin has led to a surging interest in the Knicks, especially among the Chinese. Restaurants and bars in, or near, Chinatown have experienced a significant boost in business, and now, the M ... More >>

Sound Of The City's 2011 NBA Preview: Each Team, Paired With An Album From The Past Year

Think of the orange car as a clue. ​The resurrected NBA season kicks off (thankfully, finally) on Sunday. To celebrate, we've paired each team with a notable album from the past year; the list, with tweet-sized justifications, is below. (NB, although the NBA-savvy of you might have already fig ... More >>

Live: Spaceghostpurrp Turns Raps Into Dubs And ASAP Rocky Has A Ball At Santos Party House

ASAP Rocky w/ Spaceghostpurrp Santos Party House Thursday, September 8 Better than: The Santos Party House takeover of Saks 5th Avenue earlier that evening. (Apologies to Chris Bosh.) At 1:30 Friday morning—three and a half hours after the scheduled start time—Spaceghostpurrp emerged ... More >>

Reminder: Dallas Mavericks Won a World Championship; It's Not All About LeBron

If the NBA Finals confirmed one thing, it's that like him or love him - and an ESPN color map compiled before the sixth game with Dallas indicated that the majority of fans in 45 of 50 states hate him - it's a LeBron James League. Look at today's headlines: The Daily News proclaimed "LeBust: King ... More >>

Is There Crying in Basketball? On the Heat's Tears

​Is there crying in basketball? Was there, in fact, crying in the Miami Heat locker room after their 87-86 loss to the Chicago Bulls? No one would be talking about this at all if Heat coach Erik Spoelstra hadn't told reporters, "There are a couple of guys crying in the locker room." No sooner ... More >>

Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Rick Ross Lies, the Rolling Stones Plunder, and Taylor Swift Triumphs

HOT SHOT

Give LeBron James a New York welcome

The Ballad Of Kim Kardashian And The-Dream Continues, Courtside At A Knicks Game

​Here we have (courtesy Funkmaster Flex) SOTC deity The-Dream taking in last night's Knicks-Rockets game (guess who won) with Kim Kardashian, continuing their alleged unholy union, about which we have already begun writing a speculative musical. Here, then, are more excerpts from that work in ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Wild Weekend: Courtside in New Orleans, On Stage in Las Vegas, Red Carpet in Miami

Lil Wayne was released from prison last week, as you might have heard. He spent some time alone before rejoining his friends, first on Friday night in New Orleans, where he sat courtside to watch LeBron James and Dwayne Wade's Miami Heat take on his hometown Hornets. Saturday he took the stage in L ... More >>

Stream A Track From NBA Star Rony Seikaly, Who's DJing At Lavo Saturday Night

​If you make it out for only one DJ fete this weekend starring a Lebanese ex-NBA big man, make it former Miami Heat center Rony Seikaly's set Saturday night at Lavo. This is apparently a thing Rony does now -- our friends at Miami New Times have declared him the World's Tallest DJ and praised ... More >>

Week In Review: Kill Harvilla, But Get Belly To Reunite First

​It was the week White America lost its mind, as did the guy who wrote a song called "Kill Harvilla" and sent us both the lyrics (not bad) and the instrumental MP3 (very bad). But we here at SOTC prefer more constructive exercises, like listing every '90s band that hasn't reunited yet. A lot o ... More >>

A Food Truck War Breaks Out; A Blogger Lives on Food Trucks

​Emeril Lagasse sold his Midtown Manhattan loft for $4.6 million, after reducing the price six different times from $7.65 million last year. [Wall Street Journal] A food truck war has broken out between the Rickshaw Dumpling Truck and the Frites 'N' Meats truck after the former parked too clo ... More >>

LeBron James and A-Rod: When Analogies Attack

​There are some fascinating new issues surfacing in the aftershock of LeBron James's decision to join the Miami Heat, most notably Tyler Kepner in yesterday's New York Times. Kepner makes several valid parallels between A-Rod and James, such as "like Rodriguez, James grew up without a father ... More >>

Spike Lee Hates LeBron James

​"We got hoodwinked. Led astray. Hornswoggled," Spike Lee told the New York Times, quoting Malcolm X, whose 1992 biopic he directed. "We got bamboozled." Lee, like everyone else, is pissed at LeBron James, who signed with the Miami Heat, crushing the dreams of Cleveland, New York, New Jersey a ... More >>

LeBron James Goes to the Heat; The NBA Goes to Hell

​At 9:26 pm EST Wednesday night, LeBron James told us what we already knew. Since Tuesday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Stephen A. Smith had been betting his reputation on LeBron's choice of the Miami Heat, and nearly three hours before the climactic moment, rumors of preparations for ... More >>

You Can't Make It Up: Kanye West Was At the LeBron James Press Conference Last Night

Twitpick via @youbigdummy​And thus did Greenwich, Connecticut become the vortex of bad publicity and ill-advised decisions last night, as LeBron James brought along a good luck charm to an hour-long press conference that turned into an abattoir of innocent basketball fan hopes and dreams. In t ... More >>

LeBron James Quickly Becomes League Villain

​As the early returns come in - we were most impressed by the recent ESPN poll which showed 57 percent of the public was feeling anti-LBJ -- it appears that in the breathtaking space of less than 12 hours LeBron James went from the most popular athlete in American sports to the most despised. ... More >>

Luther Campbell Weighs In On Lil Wayne, T.I., And Other Gun-Toting Hip-Hop Stars: "People Have To Understand The Rappers' Workplace"

​Did you know the 2 Live Crew boss is now a columnist for our compatriots at New Times down in Miami? It's true, and after a few warm-up pieces ("Fire Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra"), Luther Campbell today addresses why Lil Wayne and T.I. risked their careers over firearms. Short version: Try goin ... More >>

Chain Link: From Around Village Voice Media

While naturally the current edition of the Village Voice will be of prime interest to you, thanks to the magic of the internet our other publications around the country are available to you, too. The Miami New Times has a great story about R. Allen Stanford, white-collar crook extraordinaire, on wh ... More >>

He's Out! Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez Divorce

Steph Infection

Marbury's back like a bad rash, but that's the way Isiah wanted it

An NBA Finals Playlist

Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Bun B Make Year's Most Disappointing Rap Song

Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk! Tusk!

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A Woman’s Place

Jane Chastain, Sports Broadcasting Trailblazer

2000 Village Voice Sportswriters' Poll Results

Heat Burn Knicks

New York Beats Miami, but Emerges Singed for Indy

The Same Old Song

Knicks Heat: A Ragged Rivalry Made of Worn-Out Story Lines

Sports

Hard Road to Glory

The Minefields That Lurk Between the Knicks and a Conference Title

Full-Court Press

Knicks Clamp Down on the Working Media

The Knicks' Storybook (Post)Season

The Plots Thicken for the Orange and the Blue

Center of Attention

Ewing Changes His Role, Defying Critics and Defenders Alike, and the Knicks Win

ESPN'S Ho-Mo-Sexual Safari

Billionaire Boys Club

The Scoundrels among the NBA owners