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Props to Hip-Hop's iLLspokinn on NYC's Fastest-Growing Rap Tribute

Friday night, the Props to Hip-Hop classic rap tribute showcase plays its biggest show yet at B.B. King. For the past two years, TruStatement Entertainment's Props to Hip-Hop concert series has created an audience for a live hip-hop homage. With a full band playing the beats and some of the city' ... More >>

The 25 Best OutKast Songs of All Time

Here's a hard truth that needs to be told and heard and understood: OutKast aren't getting back together. They just aren't. Stankonia, their last proper release as a bonafide duo, was 13 years ago. Andre is going to be Jimi Hendrix. Big Boi is making music with Phantogram and Wavves. They've moved o ... More >>

Which NFL Playoff City Has the Best Musical History: Boston, SF, Baltimore or Atlanta?

Beyond Jay And Kanye's Throne: Ten More Regal Seats In Hip-Hop

Coming to an arena near you this weekend: Jay-Z and Kanye West. ​Kanye West and Jay-Z's grandiose Watch The Throne tour comes to the New York City area tomorrow, and sticks around through next week—the pair perform at the Izod Center on Saturday and Sunday, and at Madison Square Garden o ... More >>

12 Albums From The Past Decade That Are Way Better Than Is This It

...despite these black marks, Is This It was a decade-defining record that set the agenda for how rock sounded and even looked throughout the aughts. More importantly, Is This It remains (takes deep breath, steels self for commenter rage) the single best album released in the past 10 years." — ... More >>

Toxic Shock

Britney Spears and the artlessness of the chase

Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading

​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

'The Governors Ball'

Long Live The Funk? Big Boi Drops By Modest Mouse's Studio

​ Today in "parties you weren't invited to" news: It appears that Outkast's Big Boi has been hanging out with Modest Mouse, who are working on their upcoming album, this week. In a series of tweets, Daddy Fat Sax announced that he-- and Grammy-winning producer Chris "Mouche" Carmouche--had be ... More >>

Q&A: Sasha Grey on Auto-Tune, Her Band aTelecine, and Her Favorite Sexytime Music

Courtesy VICE BooksFrom Neu Sex Sasha Grey is one of the most famous porn stars of our generation, and perhaps the first to achieve true crossover success, with starring roles in Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experience and HBO's Entourage. You probably know her by name, face, and maybe even v ... More >>

Big Boi and Terry Riley Added To the Animal Collective-Curated All Tomorrow's Parties

​Say what you want about Animal Collective's recent turn as wedding music for the shrillest people alive, they will probably always have a better record collection than you. To wit: The line-up for May's AnCo-curated All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Minehead, England just added OutKast funka ... More >>

Big Boi+Calvin Harris

WALK IT OUT

Make room for Daddy Fat Sacks

Live: Big Boi Does The Hits At Brooklyn Bowl

​Don't bother requesting anything, he's already gonna play it​Big Boi Brooklyn Bowl Monday, September 6 Better than: The vast majority of other greatest-hits sets performed in bowling alleys. So Big Boi, as someone in his management circle is explaining before tonight's festivities beg ... More >>

This Week's Voice: The Nitrous Mafia, Big Boi, Kelis, Oneohtrix Point Never, June Jazz Festivals, and More

​In this week's Village Voice, our cover story is on the Nitrous Mafia, the gas-fueled drug gang that is terrorizing music festivals up and down both coasts. Elsewhere, Rob Harvilla talks with OutKast's Big Boi on the long-delayed occasion of the release of Sir Lucious Left Foot, Jessica Hoppe ... More >>

Big Boi Is Not Too Artsy

After endless clashes and delays, the OutKast rapper's triumphant solo album emerges at last

Last Night: A Wednesday Night Out On The L.E.S., Featuring A Secret Entrance, Wobbly Dancers, And One Awful Bouncer

​Above, the scene at Ella; below, the nefarious Corona-based secret door at Stay. Pics by Puja. ​New York City's downtown party scene adheres to a finely tuned set of rules. It's one of those things that everyone understands and no one talks about--a delicate balance of power that's main ... More >>

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 >>

Big Boi Talks About, and To, Penguins for Sea World

We don't know why Big Boi from Outkast talking to penguins is charming, but it is. This appears to be a promotional spot for Sea World in Orlando, but maybe it's part of another confusing project like Idlewild.

SXSW 2009: Futuristic Nostalgia with Janelle Monáe and Phosphorescent

Janelle Monáe (Stubbs) Phosphorescent (Club De Ville) SXSW Wednesday Night, March 18 I would declare that a bunch of Decemberists fans crowding the front of the stage four hours before the sea shanties etc. even begin just to insure their spot is not exactly Atlanta r&b space-cadet Janelle Moná ... More >>

What Would Charlie Brown Listen To?

PARTY AT GROUND ZERO

Fishbone keeps on rockin' in the free world

Killer Mike's Long-Lost Time-Capsule Album

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 14

UGK's Underground Kingz

Overdue Southern comfort

Preview: OutKast's New Album Idlewild

The Grammy Awards: A Preview

Holla!

Diplo dishes on M.I.A., baile funk, and the Roots

2003

Adam Sandler Avoids CMJ Day 1

Letters

Rap, Rage, REDvolution

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

See you later: Folks swamp a Williamsburg watering hole

And the Winner Is . . .

The Dean's List

Top Ten Plus

Hey Get Ya Mom a Crazy Milkshake in Da Club

Love and Crunk

Rowdy Big Boi and fly Andre 3000 divide and conquer the Dirty South book of hiphop rules

The South Does It Again, Sort Of

Rap Trounces Rock Below the Mason-Dixon

Bhangra Over Bombs Over Baghdad

Rhythmic Dialogue Where Duplicity Exists

Celebs Take Manhattan

Sugar Daddy

So Stank, So Clean

Twerk to Do

Letters

Getting Bizzy

Make My Crunk the P-Funk

Fathership Connection

Common's and OutKast's New Vidclips Have Decent Stuff in Common

Butta-Knife Love

F(reakiness) M