The Game (Rapper)

Top 10 Spitters In Music History (w/ VIDEO)

Spitting. It's gross in any language or culture -- a sign of disrespect that garners admiration or adoration from no one. Well, except for fans. Stars and celebrities themselves get mighty pissed off if you spit on them, but if they spit on you, you better just grin and take it. That's why we decid ... More >>

Ten Rappers We'd Like To See on Reality TV

So many reality shows, and so many of them are terrible. But people watch this stuff, despite feigning revulsion. "Trash culture" is on the rise, and with everyone from Consequence to The Game are landing "roles" in a reality show, we wanted to get in on the action and list some potentially quality ... More >>

Critics Need to Lay Off Macklemore

The recently-crowned number one song in the country, as you probably know, is a Seattle-based white independent hip-hop artist's ode to shopping at thrift stores. I'm not sure exactly how the stars aligned and/or what Illuminati clerical error caused it to happen, but "Thrift Shop" by Macklemore and ... More >>

The Movies to Know From Sundance -- and the Year Ahead

Park City's Breakouts

Broadcast's First Album Since Frontwoman Trish Keenan's Death Is A Spooky Affair

By the time you get to "The Curfew After the Massacre"--the 27th of 39 tracks on Broadcast's 39-minute soundtrack to the lauded 2012 British psychological horror flick Berberian Sound Studio, out today on Warp Records--the feeling is familiar and exquisitely frustrating: A tantalizing soundscape, a ... More >>

Sparkle

The 2012 Gathering of the Juggalos Infomercial Is Here

Throw your dubs up, this year's Juggomercial has finally arrived. It's 23 minutes long, confirms most of the performers we mentioned on Friday, and casts the Gathering of the Juggalos as the one remaining safe haven from the "sell-out zombies" who dominate the mainstream. "Freedom still exists here ... More >>

A Father's Day Mix Of Songs With Mixed Feelings About Fathers

Every May, there's no shortage of mawkishly sentimental songs to play on Mother's Day, but a month later, there are comparatively few Father's Day equivalents. Sure, there are some treacly tracks like Bob Carlisle's 1997 adult-contempo hit "Butterfly Kisses," but fatherhood is more often than not in ... More >>

Sound Of The City's Top Seven Northside Festival Shows

This weekend marks the return of the Northside Festival, the Brooklyn-blanketing series of concerts, films, art shows, and discussions of "entrepreneurship" now in its fourth year. The music lineup is pretty jam-packed with bands both local and visiting, and in order to assist you the SOTC staff has ... More >>

David Banner

With the Help of Mark Ronson, Rufus Wainwright Learns to Dance

Q&A: Mark Ronson On Working With Rufus Wainwright, Learning From His Stepdad, And Amy Winehouse

If you find the new Rufus Wainwright disc Out Of The Game (Decca) to be particularly fetching, not to mention full of pop and funk flourishes, some credit should be given to Mark Ronson. The DJ-turned-producer helped the estimable Wainwright untangle his occasionally convoluted tunes. He then took t ... More >>

Radio Hits One: Lil Wayne, Drake, Nicki Minaj, And Young Money Bring Crew Love Back To Rap Radio

If you've listened to much urban radio lately, or even a little, you may have noticed that Lil Wayne and his Young Money Entertainment labelmates, particularly Drake and Nicki MInaj, are quite popular. You may have also noticed the same thing in 2011. And in 2010. And 2009. But perhaps nothing under ... More >>

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 >>

100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"

Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled disappe ... More >>

Top 10 Reasons Why So Few Black Folk Appear Down To Occupy Wall Street

R.E.M.'s Reckoning

The band closes the book on their legacy

Live: Olivia Tremor Control Keep Hope Alive

​Olivia Tremor Control w/the Music Tapes (le) poisson rouge Wednesday, September 21 Better than: Poring over photos from May 1997 on Flickr. In the '90s—that increasingly storied decade that everyone under 30 is probably sick of hearing about the way I was tired of listening to yarns ... More >>

The Top Ten "Otis" Freestyles

​ In the run-up to yesterday's release of Watch The Throne, the project's first official single, the Otis Redding-sampling "Otis," was re-done and freestyled over by many a rapper. So to tide you over until the physical version of Watch The Throne (packaged with a bonus CD-ROM containing a vec ... More >>

50 Cent Is Done With The Album-Releasing Game

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The Game Crams An Entire Mixtape's Worth Of Disses And References Into Four Minutes

​It doesn't twist the "Try A Little Tenderness" sample used by the song its title's piggybacking off, but the Game's "Uncle Otis" is full of peevish references to recent happenings in hip-hop and pop—Tyler, The Creator (who he claims to have "created," because he's clearly looking for a ... More >>

Lloyd: Expletives Embraced

He works blue, yet retains his loverman status on King of Hearts

Fabolous Loosens Up On The S.O.U.L. Tape

​At this point, Fabolous's spot in hip-hop is carved in stone. He's the Welterweight Champion of Punchlines, the master jabber who has fruitlessly chased the knockout blow for so long the pursuit defines him. His chronic, career-long inability to say "no" to A&R men has resulted in some of the ... More >>

Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and the Great Gay-Pander-Off of 2010

Nicki, P!nk, Gaga, and those two other ones taste the rainbow

Ten Reasons Why Dr. Dre's Detox Will Be Great

Does this man have another classic in him?​Dr. Dre's long, long awaited Detox has received its latest release date, this time via a press release from Interscope's London office guaranteeing that hip-hop's most-awaited album will touch down on "February 2011." The project's first single, "Kush ... More >>

Anamanaguchi Post Das Racist Remix, Promise To Release the Scott Pilgrim Video Game Soundtrack Somehow

Ryder RippsPoor ladyOne detail that didn't emerge during our long conversation with Brooklyn chiptune composers Anamanaguchi, regarding their wish-fulfilling project of scoring the Scott Pilgrim videogame, was whether or not the band planned to release the tracks separately. So we wrote guitarist/NE ... More >>

Back to 'Africa' With Nas and Damian Marley

Why the blockbuster collusion of Distant Relatives feels so . . . distant

The Fourth Annual Village Voice Readers' Film Poll -- The Best Films of 1967!

"We rob banks."​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. February 8, 1968, Vol. XIII, No. 17 Films by Andrew Sarris The readers of The Village Voice have responded in unprecedented numbers to the fourth annual poll of ten-best lists. For the record, the previous winners are "D ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: August 19 through 25

Perhaps You'd Enjoy An International Relations Perspective on the Jay-Z/Game Feud

Yup, an article called "Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate" does in fact exist. And it's pretty good! (What Jay-Z/Game feud, you ask? Listen to this, and then this, and then have a moment of silence for the Game's career. And a slightly shorter one for Jay's, which will survi ... More >>

The Game's LAX: Hate It or Tolerate It

Too few gut-punchers, too many forehead-slappers on Jayceon Taylor's third go-round

Track 18 Wins Again

Major-label hip-hop records in burying-best-tracks shocker!

Seen Acting in Concert

The Hip-Hop Cops materialize in the West Village

The Game's Bad Rap

A never-ending tail with a twist: The Hip-Hop Cops follow their man but lose him in the end.

Going for the Gold

Can't Forget About Dre

The Game airs his various grievances to varying degrees of success

Diddy's Little Helpers

Why hip-hop ghostwriting is an art now, and an actually respectable one

The Game Goes to War (Again)

'Waist Deep'

I'm My Favorite Game

Proof that no matter how hard we pretend to be, we're all fragile

Leave Him Alone, He's a Family Man, and His Bark Is Much Worse Than His Bite

French Basketball Players Pretend To Be Rappers

Growing by Degrees

Kanye West adds new subtlety, complexity, and Jon Brion to the idea of sophomoric

Married to the Hook

The corporations murdered hiphop and all I got was this lousy G-Unit throwback jersey

MCs Are Paid, Not Born

Straight out the thug factory, rhyming for only a year, and ready for his cover story in Vibe

Knit Picket

Musicians settle with Knitting Factory after protest over backstock, royalties, masters

Letters

Happy You Near

Boomer Bust

Boomer Bust