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April 11, 2012
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 >>
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April 3, 2012
A Brief Primer On Riff Raff, The (Really Good) Houston Rapper Who Will Be Portrayed On Screen By James Franco
If Noz and The Onion collaborated, they might come up with a scenario like this one: Gucci Mane and Selena Gomez star in a Harmony Korine-directed film alongside James Franco, whose character is loosely based on the little-known YouTube rapper Riff Raff. But, of course, this is the era of trollgaze, ... More >>
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February 28, 2012
Five Reasons Why XXL's Freshman Class Issue Is Going To Be A Yearly Ritual For A While
As traditions go, XXL's annual "Freshman Class" issue is neither all that time-honored or worthwhile. The magazine's been putting rappers it calls freshmen on its cover since 2008, but hasn't exactly been kingmaking or future forecasting in doing so: 2008's list featured Crooked I and Joell Ortiz, h ... More >>
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December 29, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: El Debarge Featuring Fabolous, Quadron, Travie McCoy Featuring Cee-Lo
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: different shades of soul.
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December 29, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Discodeine Featuring Jarvis Cocker, Mark E., Scissor Sisters
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: club anthems.
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December 28, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Benoit Piolard, Groove Armada featuring Jess Larabee, Holly Miranda
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: post-coffeeshop.
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December 28, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Disappears, Future Islands, Luna Is Honey
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: gnarly rock.
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December 27, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Alley Boy and Young Dro, Trae, Husalah, and More
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: unheralded regional rap.
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December 27, 2010
The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: The Bad Plus, CocoRosie, Parenthetical Girls
Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: songs from the gallery, more or less.
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June 23, 2009
On Young Dro's "On Fire"
To the list of goofy, outsized obsessions in the Grand Hustle camp, let us now officially add Polo--meaning the sport, the clothing you wear while you play the sport, and the heretofore unknown acronym that doubles as the title for Young Dro's forthcoming record, P.O.L.O. (Players Only Live Once). ... More >>
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April 3, 2009
Week in Review: Boom! Woah, What Was That? You Transcend.
In the week we got ourselves a whole new look, we celebrated by staring David Lynch and Kate Moss directly in their awesome, newly expansive faces. This was a bookish week at SOTC: Brian Evenson soundtracked his novel, Last Days, Jonathan Lethem reintroduced L.J. Davis and his walls of mucus in P ... More >>
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April 2, 2009
Young Dro Rocks Diamonds
Dissenting opinions aside, we enjoy Young Dro's Wayne's World-informed enthusiasm for the finer things in life, even when those things are Yung L.A. or three endless minutes of "Right Now (Na Na Na)". Who else would get this exited about some random sample? "Hey man--we got Big on the hook! Bad Bo ... More >>
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March 11, 2009
On Young Dro's "Clean With It"
We may well be the only people out there riding unconditionally for Young Dro and Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy, but we have our reasons. Call it Gosford Park trap music, or point out, as we once did, that "Woah" was basically what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren' ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Week in Review: Gosford Park Trap Music
In the week we said "My President is Black" in about fifteen different, ecstatic ways, we also crowned TV on the Radio victorious in the 36th Annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Poll editor Rob Harvilla let the world know once more that he wasn't Charles Aaron, then instant-messaged away in the after ... More >>
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January 20, 2009
Mixtape Review for a More Perfect America: Young Dro's Black Boy White Boy
Doing his small part to form a more perfect post-racial America, next-gen Atlanta up-and-comer Young Dro is taking the fight to Cate Blanchett with his new mixtape Black Boy White Boy. The rapper's revolutionary philosophy of black dudes wearing scarves is set up nicely by the mixtape's cover: Dro ... More >>
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January 16, 2009
Week in Review: It's Time for Some Guiliani-Loving Madball Fans to Step Up to the Plate
Credit: Rebecca Smeyne In the week we worked in this church, paid our penance, and gave our blood, Lil Wayne and Pharrell said "Yes." To which Young Dro and Yung LA responded, simply, "Woah." And Diddy wept. TV season at Sound of the City has come (is it the cold weather?), and though The City re ... More >>
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January 14, 2009
On Young Dro & Yung LA's "Woah"
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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June 18, 2008
8Ball & MJG's Moment is Coming
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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April 22, 2008
Rich Boy's Fired-Up New Mixtape
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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March 31, 2008
The Quarterly Report: Best Albums of 2008 Thus Far
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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February 22, 2008
Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 25 & 26
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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February 21, 2008
Young Dro's Heroic Goofiness
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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January 17, 2008
Rick Ross Buries the All-Star Remix
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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June 4, 2007
Live: Hot 97's Summer Jam
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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May 7, 2007
Cam'ron and Jim Jones: Not Friends Anymore
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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March 29, 2007
When Will Young Buck Leave G-Unit?
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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January 3, 2007
The Quarterly Report: Best New Singles
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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December 13, 2006
The Year's Best Music Videos
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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November 16, 2006
The BET Hip-Hop Awards: A Running Diary
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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October 3, 2006
The Quarterly Report: Best New Singles
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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September 1, 2006
The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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August 4, 2006
Rick Ross: Rap as Summer-Movie Escapism
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>
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April 18, 2006
Pharrell: Best Rapper Ever? (Well, No)
In the tradition of the Shop Boyz totally misreading white guitar culture to hilarious results, Young Dro & Yung LA's Black Boy White Boy would be amazing for no other reason than its front cover. Add "Woah," which is what "Swagger Like Us" would've sounded like if those four dudes weren't afraid ... More >>

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