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Five Other Failed Rap/Country Experiments

The hubbub this week regarding Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's controversial duet "Accidental Racist" has, among other things, given a sign that the world might still not be ready yet for a full blown country and hip-hop crossover. While rap has been above an attempted crossover, no matter how poorly c ... More >>

Reincarnated, An Ode to Snoop Dogg's Consumption of Weed

Deftones: Here Comes the Rain

Offering a master class in outperforming a storm

Seven Must-Dos For The Modern Young Weed Rapper

Wiz Khalifa is in love with weed. The Pittsburgh-raised rapper has established himself as a hip-hop superstar by making songs that are largely hooked around getting high. While it's not all that a unique pastime—the likes of Snoop Dogg and Cypress Hill ushered in the first great rush of weed r ... More >>

Live: Catalpa Offers A Little Bit Of Everything To The Soggy Masses At Randall's Island

PHOTOS: Sunday at Catalpa Catalpa NYC: Snoop Dogg, Black Keys, Matt & Kim, Matisyahu, A$AP Rocky, Hercules & Love Affair, TV On The Radio, Girl Talk, et al. Randall's Island Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 Better than: Arguing over an iPod's shuffle function. Music festivals without a histor ... More >>

Six Very Important Interactions Between Rappers And Dogs

As part of this weekend's Catalpa Festival, Snoop Dogg will slouch around Randall's Island to perform his debut album, Doggystyle, in its entirety. With the Doggfather being somewhat obsessed with all things canine, SOTC decided it was fine time to shed light on hip-hop's infatuation with dogs. But ... More >>

A SOTC Flowchart: Should You Get Married In Catalpa's Church Of Sham Marriages This Weekend?

"We have the Frisky's Church of Sham Marriages going in, which is a 60 foot inflatable church, and we have a pimp pastor marrying people. We actually have two couples getting legitimately married at the festival - the wedding dress, the whole family coming in. I'm trying to get Snoop Dogg to actuall ... More >>

FLIGHT SCHOOL

Wiz Khalifa helps Jones Beach get young, wild, and free

Food Vendors Announced for Catalpa Music Festival

The Catalpa Music Festival, a two-day music festival on Randall's Island from July 28 and 29, just announced their food vendor line-up. It's the festival's inaugural event and it will feature performances from over 40 artists including The Black Keys, Snoop Dog, and Girl Talk. Here's the full list ... More >>

Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap

David Banner

The Top Six Game Show Appearances By Rappers

The news of a rapper-packed revamp of Hollywood Squares has been greeted positively, not least because everyone has been able to join in the fun of Googling the demographic term "malennials" to find out if they are going to be allowed to watch the show. It's also allowed some people speculate on whi ... More >>

Three Rappers Who Should Be The Center Square For MTV2's Hollywood Squares Reboot (And One Who Definitely Should Not)

Next month MTV2 will debut Hip-Hop Squares, a rap-centric takeoff on the "tic-tac-toe with trivia and celebrities" game show Hollywood Squares. (The non-genre-specific version of the show aired its last episode in 2004.) The show will be hosted by Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg, and MTV has announced a fe ... More >>

Catalpa NYC: The Latest Addition To New York City's Increasingly Crowded Summer-Festival Docket

The Black Keys and Snoop Dogg are set to headline the brand-new New York area music festival Catalpa NYC, which is scheduled to take place at Randalls Island July 28 and 29. Tickets are on sale now and just under $100, with VIP packages starting at $239.99 (a ferry to and from Randall's Island costs ... More >>

Bootsy Collins

I Don't Go Clubbing, I Go Dancing: Your Labor Day Weekend Guide To New York's Best Nightlife (And Daytime Parties, Too)

​There are a few things we can expect from Labor Day weekend, and the annual Electric Zoo festival is one of them. The massive three-day rave takes over Randall's Island with twelve-hour days that boast a million DJs over four separate stages; you'll hear trance, techno, deep house, electro, d ... More >>

Two New Lonely Island Songs Enter, Only One Leaves

​The Lonely Island, they of "Jizz In My Pants" and "I'm On A Boat" (and Saturday Night Live) fame, release Turtleneck and Chain next week. Two guest-star-assisted songs have hit the internet in the past few days: "Turtleneck and Chain" (featuring Snoop Dogg) and "Attracted To Us" (featuring Be ... More >>

Snoop Dogg

This Week in the Voice: Kicking Back With the Black Hebrew Israelites

​This week in the Voice, Steven Thrasher enters the wild world of Black Hebrew Israelites, or as they are more commonly referred, "those guys who yell at everybody on the street." They tell him they "are the Ambassadors of Christ," but others have differing views. One of their ex-girlfriends, ... More >>

Jesse Serwer on Wiz Khalifa, Rich Juzwiak on Britney Spears, Edd Hurt on Those Darlins

Darren Ankenman In this week's issue, Jesse Serwer examines why Wiz Khalifa isn't Snoop Dogg, despite his spindly six-foot-four frame and self-estimated $10,000-a-month weed habit. "But where Doggy Style and Chronic 2001 were standard dorm-room issue during my college years a decade ago, today's f ... More >>

Week In Review: "This Was A Weird One, Folks."

​Charlie Sheen dominated the wild and weird this week but the rest of the world proved able keep pace. Lady Gaga birthed some sort of goey monster-baby while blood-covered panda bears danced with leather-bound vampires at the Cradle of Filth show. Suffice it to say we felt the stirrings of a t ... More >>

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JAM WITH THE BISCUITS

Philly eccentrics crash at Terminal 5

Obama's Busted Lip, Willie Nelson's Weed Arrest & More of What You Missed While in a Food Coma

​Everyone knows Thanksgiving is a two-day holiday. The first is for eating and drinking and fighting with your family. (Maybe you go to the movies at night, that's okay too.) The second is for eating and drinking more, preferably leftovers with people you like, friends or the favorite family m ... More >>

Science: "Smart People Do Drugs." Guy on Acid: "I'M FU**ING A UNICORN!"

​Smart people are more likely to deal with new things and try them. Those new things seem to include drugs. Why?...While "the use of opium dates back to about 5,000 years ago ... Other psychoactive drugs are 'chemical' (pharmacological); they require modern chemistry to manufacture." Psychoact ... More >>

Week In Review: "You Died! Luckily This Is Just A Video Game."

​In a week wherein we bid adieu to both Fat Beats and Paste magazine, we needed something to fill the void, be that the Das Racist video game or, far less pleasantly, a glowering, shirtless Rick Ross. Good thing this one's over with.

Snoop Dogg Paid Tribute to Michael Jackson in Prospect Park on Sunday

Photo via the Rap-Up​Though Michael Jackson's 52nd birthday would've fallen on this past Sunday, his music was pretty much the official soundtrack for the whole weekend in Prospect Park, blasting out of vendor trucks and ballfields, picnics and stereo-mounted bikes--pretty much everything with ... More >>

MS. HILL RETURNS

Or, at least, we hope so

Breaking: Snoop Dogg, Humanitarian Environmentalist, Pimps Out a Sea Lion

Via Metro UK/Bob Couey.​When he's not besting Chuck Norris by smoking weed, rapper/actor/father/husband/philanthropist/botanist Snoop Dogg is now besting everyone by pimping out not a "ride," not a goblet, not even a small child, but a sea lion. Yes: A Sea Lion. While other rappers are busy doing ... More >>

Week in Review: Listen to Them Goddamn Drums

​In the week SOTC blood kin Christopher R. Weingarten swore up an absolute storm in defense of music criticism, we memorialized his cascades of profanity in a very special video edit, then rode out on the battlefield once more to sort out the critical scrum that broke out in the speech's wake. ... More >>

Live: Snoop Dogg Plays Your Favorite Song At Brooklyn Bowl

Our hero over the weekend, pleasing the masses. Snoop Dogg Brooklyn Bowl Monday, April 19 Here's a truth no one will want to admit about last night's Snoop Dogg concert: Your parents were probably there. Lots of parents, actually: possibly drinking, possibly smoking, and definitely having the tim ... More >>

Tonight! Snoop Dogg, Darlings, The Sneaks, And Kordan

YouTube​Tonight, a dream collaboration (and one we only thought possible on Wii Sports) unfolds: Snoop Dogg and bowling. Yes, Snoop is performing at the Brooklyn Bowl, thereby creating an evening in which gin, juice, and hand-eye coordination can justifiably co-exist. Meanwhile, Darlings deliv ... More >>

City Smoking Crackdown's Newest Victim: Snoop Dogg

​So the city is trying to shut down clubs for smoking violations, going to far as to unleash the deadly narc hipsters onto the town's various exclusive bars and clubs to enforce the law. Chief among the violators is M2 Ultralounge, currently fighting for their life in New York courtroom, and t ... More >>

DANCE IT ON DOWN

Happy birthday, Soul!

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 >>

Rakim's Second Coming

The God MC confronts a hip-hop landscape far different from the one he once ruled

Bill O'Reilly Last Guy On Earth Still Willing to Watch Random Videos of Rappers Smoking Weed

We won't even bother to throw up our hands in outrage at Bill O'Reilly's suggestion that Barack Obama deport Snoop Dogg for the crime of holding a blunt in the general vicinity of the rapper's own Obama-by-Shepard Fairey t-shirt, so as to make it look like the red-white-blue presidential portr ... More >>

The Diss-Track Family Tree

Who to insult, how, and why

Rap Activism, Or Not: Young Jeezy on NPR

Murs Hits the Big Time, If 'the Big Time' Even Exists

Saturday 05/03

RITES OF SPRING

Emo takes flight in the Meadowlands

ROBOPOP

T-Pain in the flesh

Things I Like About Rick Ross's Trilla

DEAR MR. BUSH

Fitty, Biggie, and others tee off in a political doc

Film

R. Kelly, Snoop, and Some Other Peeps!

Lyrical Gangbang

Y2Care

Millennium Movies Get a Second Chance

Who Let the Dogg Out?