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February 24, 2012
Live: DMX Brings Hip-Hop Redux To S.O.B.'s
DMX S.O.B.'s Thursday, February 23 Better than: Time travel. Shot in grainy black-and-white in NYC's notorious Tunnel nightclub, the 1998 music video for DMX's first single "Get At Me Dog" was pure, unadulterated hip-hop; it set X apart as a raw, menacing rapper at a time when the genre was inunda ... More >>
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December 30, 2011
Holler! The Ten Loudest, Shoutiest Rappers
Waka Flocka Flame is the sort of of hip-hop artist who doesn't so much rap or flow as he shouts his ass off. It's a formula that imbues the Atlanta-based rapper's songs with a boisterous, visceral appeal—and one that he's looking to continue with the release of his second studio album, Triple ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Live: Wale Brings Lots And Lots Of Friends To The Highline Ballroom
Wale Highline Ballroom Wednesday, November 2 Better than: watching next week, when the show will air on MySpace. The line had packed itself six-deep, turning the long sidewalk from the Highline Ballroom to Ninth Avenue into a traffic jam of Wale fans. Or maybe just fans of events. Or maybe sheep. ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Live: Vex Ruffin Helps Stones Throw Take Its Next Step
CMJ, Day Four: Vex Ruffin, The Stepkids, Jonti Better than: Listening to Stones Throw's present rap roster. The day before his first CMJ show, Vex Ruffin sat in a bar called Ontario in Williamsburg, wearing a t-shirt with the Seinfeld logo on it and quietly nerding out by giving the Stones ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
Download This Bonkers Three-Disc Swizz Beatz Mix Immediately
In honor of hip-hop super-producer Swizz Beatz' triumphant contribution to Kanye West's "Power" remix (seriously, go listen to that again), beloved friend-of-SOTC Sean Fennessey has compiled a homemade Swizz best-of, spanning two discs (from "Ruff Ryders' Anthem" to "On to the Next One") with ... More >>
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February 4, 2010
Interview: Just Blaze Talks Baseline Studios, From the Making of Jay-Z's The Blueprint to the End of an Era
"For The Blueprint, Jay-Z literally just walked into the studio one day and was like, 'Anybody got some beats?'" Kanye mourns, 1.30.10.Last Thursday, when producer Justin "Just Blaze" Smith announced he was closing shop at Baseline Studios, longtime recording homebase for Roc-A-Fella Records ... More >>
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June 12, 2009
Week in Review: Get Ready #Bonnaroo You're Gonna Be My Bitch For the Weekend
Rebecca Smeyne In the week we didn't go to the mud-soaked hobbit/hippie fest that is Bonnaroo (well, except for the top secret one of us who did, and is even now Twittering about it), all three members of SOTC did go to Prospect Park, where we wandered the green green grass 27,000 parents and thei ... More >>
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June 10, 2009
The "Who's Real" Remix: Most Improbable Ruff Ryders Reunion Ever
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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June 6, 2008
Picking Apart Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, Part 3
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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September 10, 2007
The VMAs: A Running Diary
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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August 14, 2007
Swizz Beatz Has Lost His Mind
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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June 26, 2007
DMX Has a Greatest-Hits Album
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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June 4, 2007
Live: Hot 97's Summer Jam
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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May 11, 2006
The Best Rap Videos Ever
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2005
Irv Gotti Trial: 50 Cent Shooting To Be Admitted?
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
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November 17, 2005
The Irv Gotti Trial: Day Two
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
Blogs
November 2, 2005
French Basketball Players Pretend To Be Rappers
Less than a month ago, Jadakiss was telling MTV that he wanted Cam'ron and Kanye West on the remix for "Who's Real," the Swizz Beatz-produced, improbably successful fifth single off The Last Kiss. Instead, it turns out we got...a Ruff Ryders reunion? This was a buzzed-about possibility ever since ... More >>
Music
September 13, 2005
Pulling the White Strings
Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis
NYC Life
May 31, 2005
Animaniacs
Notes for an animated TV show I'm writing about my first job in New York City
Music
August 10, 2004
Overdetermined to Win
Menacing commercial rapper with purposeful image sells you the hyperreal you gotta feel
NYC Life
July 22, 2003
Listings
Menacing commercial rapper with purposeful image sells you the hyperreal you gotta feel
Music
October 29, 2002
Power Nana Club
Menacing commercial rapper with purposeful image sells you the hyperreal you gotta feel
Music
October 15, 2002
Hail Fellow Well Set
Menacing commercial rapper with purposeful image sells you the hyperreal you gotta feel
Music
July 16, 2002
Destroyed
Hip-Hop's Ur-Self Got Himself a War
Music
November 13, 2001
Salaam
Hip-Hop's Ur-Self Got Himself a War
Music
August 7, 2001
What Fresh Sell
Hip-Hop's Ur-Self Got Himself a War
Music
June 19, 2001
Class of ’33
Hip-Hop's Ur-Self Got Himself a War
News
March 27, 2001
The 'Bad Boy Curse'
The Perils of Hanging With Puffy
News
August 15, 2000
Blacktop Gods
The Pros Come to Run, but the Playground Legends Still Own Rucker
News
July 25, 2000
Playground Playaz
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
June 6, 2000
Fight for Your Right to Party
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
May 23, 2000
Music
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
January 11, 2000
Sample My Pit Bull
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
January 11, 2000
Death Rock 2000
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
November 2, 1999
Hit It, Now Hold It
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Long Island Voice
October 26, 1999
That next bitch
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
Music
October 19, 1999
That Next Bitch
Hard Hoopin at Rucker
News
August 17, 1999
Airport '99
Get Ready For Takeoff as the Rucker Tourney Heads For Its Final
Music
January 12, 1999
One-Man Dialogues
Get Ready For Takeoff as the Rucker Tourney Heads For Its Final

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