The Clipse

Q&A: Pusha T: "Instant Gratification Versus Slow Grind? I'll Take The Former."

​90% of his friends are behind bars. His oldest brother is a recovering drug addict. His other brother has long since repented. All that and Pusha still wants to, well, push. "That's what happens when you Michael and they treat you like Tito," he raps on the hook for "I Still Wanna." For the f ... More >>

Week in Review: Arcade Fire Won A Grammy And All We Got Was This BMX Bicycle Helmet-Cam

Santiago Felipe​And so it came to pass that a sleepy 2011 all of a sudden woke up and went crazy, as Arcade Fire won a Grammy, spawning a thousand think pieces (or two, anyway). Then Odd Future played Santos Party House! And Fallon! Many people said the word "swag." But just as the internet t ... More >>

Rob Harvilla's Top 10 Albums Of 2010

Naturally, this dude is involved​Distilling a full year of furtive, easily distracted, constantly overwhelmed listening down to a mere 10 albums is a ridiculous, agonizing, thoroughly loathsome undertaking, and yet here we all are, pulling nine fully formed sonic universes together and capping ... More >>

On Odd Future, Rape and Murder, And Why We Sometimes Like the Things That Repel Us

Odd Future and Mos Def in New York, circa two days ago. Photo by Brook Bobbins.​By now you've heard about Odd Future, the polarizing Los Angeles rap collective that got a lot of New York-based critics and labels pretty excited the other night in the basement of Webster Hall. And if you've list ... More >>

GOOD Friday: Kanye West Brings the Whole Family to "Good Friday"

​If you're a fan of rap music, you don't believe in promises. From release dates to teased collaborations to entire albums, you'll believe it when you see it. So for those waiting for Kanye West to slip up on his GOOD Friday promise -- a new track every week until Christmas -- last night seeme ... More >>

Ten Pioneering Pieces Of Hip-Hop Street Art

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Triple Self Portrait. All images courtesy the Eric Firestone Gallery.​Street art has enjoyed a steady resurgence in rap over the last few years, with Kanye West and the Clipse jostling to let KAWS design their album and magazine covers, 50 Cent and Busta Rhymes appearing ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Your Big, Honking Guide to Haiti Benefits and Valiantly Intentioned Fundraising Efforts, Non-Wyclef Musical Edition

If this doesn't say it all, don't know what does Wyclef's Yele charity has recently drawn a firestorm of criticism, but he's not the only musical figure trying to mobilize folks and funds on behalf of Haiti. There's also an impressive number of benefit concerts and music events happening in the cit ... More >>

Parsing the Record Sales of Pitchfork's Top 10 Albums of the Year

​Matthew Perpetua posts the numbers behind one of the more visible/influential year-end lists out--so what do they mean? Well, for one thing, the once and future Brooklyn triumvirate of Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear, and Dirty Projectors really sold records. About 300K of them, to be exact-- ... More >>

Ted Leo Would Like a Word With You, Tom Breihan

​From Ted's website today, where he belatedly got around to announcing his new album and new single "Even Heroes Have To Die," about which Pitchfork's Tom Breihan wrote yesterday: "From the sound of that one, Leo may have been spending some serious time listening to fellow Jersey natives the G ... More >>

So Whatever Happened to "Obama Fried Chicken" Marquee in the Latest Clipse Video?

​It became a blank yellow facade, according to Brokelyn. Unsanitized YouTube clips and the like show the proper Brownsville marquee, but the MTV version has been conspicuously scrubbed. Why? "It is possible that MTV erased the Obama Fried Chicken sign for the same two reasons networks typicall ... More >>

The Clipse Come to Cam'ron for the "Popular Demand (Popeyes)" Video

When, back in August, we asked the Clipse about this song--which was only a rumor at that point--this is what they told us: And a song with Cam'ron is still coming. Can you guys let go any info about that? Pusha: I like to say this is the New York record of all records. You know how, like--livin ... More >>

CMJ Photos: Clipse at the Highline Ballroom

Rebecca Smeyne Let's be frank. The bonkers CMJ shows of years past--say, like, the Knife--aren't happening this year. The biggest excitement right now is, what, the XX? (Who're great, but don't misunderstand.) Clipse, then, should be a tremendous prospect, except that they're played CMJ before, a ... More >>

Week in Review: More Topless Women Than Non-Topless Women

photo from Girl Talk's Pool Party show by Sam Horine But seriously, this was a really depressing week. We said goodbye to Teddy Kennedy through song and so did Orrin Hatch. Ellie Greenwich, the woman who wrote "Be My Baby" also passed, as did 29 year old New York DJ Josh Link. Speaking of death, M ... More >>

Jay-Z Doesn't Show at Diesel Party; Kanye, Clipse Do

We're gonna go ahead and suggest that yesterday was the first and last time Jay-Z and Swedish livewire Lykke Li will ever be confused for one another. The smart money for a good part of yesterday was that Jay-Z was maybe definitely due to step onstage last night with the Roots at that ridiculous D ... More >>

Week in Review: I Have a Blog, This is What Happens.

Rebecca SmeyneThese Are Powers' Pat getting his temperature taken in China​ In the week leading up to All Points Wet (har har), vandals insulted the word "gay" in describing Coldplay, we came up with suggestions for a Beastie Boys tribute on Friday at All Points West, and there were plenty of ... More >>

TRADING LACES

Stock up on sneakers and hip-hop

Whale-Watching With Björk

A fleeting glimpse of infinity at a surreal, 'star'-studded benefit show

When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong: Clipse Edition

Malice, of the Clipse, started a blog last week, kicking things off with an entertaining video in which he sent up his own lifestyle: the camera's opening shot, of Pyrex and baking soda, turns out to be the beginnings of a delicious waffle batter; later, the rapper runs through some of his tougher ... More >>

Lil Wayne Gives Haters a Facelift

RJ Shaughnessy Tiny mini-trend #4351: Rappers getting all worked up and cold-eyed over menacing, tightly looped guitar riffs. See yesterday's Clipse/Kanye feature "Kinda Like a Big Deal," the spell of which isn't at all wearing off 24 hours later, and Lil Wayne's leak-of-the-day, "Facelift" "Spit," ... More >>

On Jadakiss's Kiss My Ass Mixtape, "Turn My Swag On" Remix, Etc.

There's something reassuring about Jadakiss's promo run up to The Last Kiss. 50 Cent has an album to promote now, too: at the moment, he's surveilling DJ Khaled's family, bragging about having congress with Rick Ross's baby mother, and generally doing everything but killing another human being by ... More >>

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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The Mixtape Will Save Us All

If you want them to buy it, make it free

New Clipse Mixtape Preview

Pazz & Jop: 2006's Top 25 Albums

Why We Love Miranda Lambert (and Should)

How a volatile, occasionally violent pop-country siren won our hearts

How to Rob, by M.I.A.

M.I.A. triumphantly knocks the hustle that's driving hip-hop's materialist malaise

Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Live Shows of 2007

Hugs and Kisses 23: Vampire Weekend Bassist Chris Baio on His Favorite Records

The VMAs: A Running Diary

Provincializm by William Bowers: Bodies of Water

The Summer-Jam Report: Fabolous and Ne-Yo's "Make Me Better"

No Context: Zach Baron on Yoko Ono at Pitchfork

Live: Girl Talk Gets Hit With More Ass Than A Toilet Seat

Politics, Provocations, Eulogies

Accepting the things we cannot change and raising hell about the rest

Bob, Barkley, and Beyond: The Top 20

The poll's upper echelons drive us crazy, or at least drive us to drink

The Sheep Take a Buffalo Stance

Critics' polls have evolved and arguably withered lately, but at least we didn't vote for Timbuk 3

Mobb Deep: Not Dead Yet

The Wire vs. Coke-Rap

Live: Spazzy Hipster DJ Needs to Calm Down

Explorations in Mixtape Nation

Lil Wayne, Q-Tip, and Remy Ma feed into hip-hop's endless musical reserves.

Three 6 Mafia: Oscar Winners

After the Snow

The mirror crack'd: Last year, a drug and its discontents seeped into books and hip-hop

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite Albums Since July

Never Been in a Riot

Hip-hoppers battle for identity and the right kind of mobility

And We All Shine On

The South Does It Again, Sort Of

Rap Trounces Rock Below the Mason-Dixon

Escape Claus

2Gether 4Never

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