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2012’s hottest dance trend keeps going

Trey Songz Opens A Much-Read Book To Chapter V

Much of R&B has been devoted to negotiating the relationship between men and women, and Trey Songz has always been traditional in that regard. His new album, Chapter V is organized neatly into three sections. The first and longest section is a hedonistic celebration of the player lifestyle (note the ... More >>

Live: Nicki Minaj Takes Off From Summer Jam, Nas And Lauryn Hill Climb Aboard

Hot 97 Summer Jam: Nicki Minaj, Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, J. Cole, Wale, Meek Mill, DJ Khaled, Waka Flocka, Trey Songz, Maino, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, French Montana, Mavado, Tyga, Slaughterhouse (and Nas and Lauryn Hill) MetLife Stadium Sunday, June 3 Better than: Seeing a Nicki Minaj concert. In an er ... More >>

STANDING OVATION

Young Jeezy says "I Do" to Irving Plaza

Young Jeezy Gets Personal In A Hustlerz Ambition

Young Jeezy Sunshine Cinema Tuesday, November 29 Better than: Combing his Wikipedia page. Perhaps Young Jeezy's biggest weakness as an artist is the information that's out there about him, or the lack thereof. Four albums and a plethora of mixtapes deep and even ardent fans like myself admittedly ... More >>

Radio Hits One: T-Pain Escapes Lead Single Purgatory

The Revolver cover.​On Thursday Jive Records announced that T-Pain's fourth album rEVOLVEr would be out on December 6. That same day, the rappa ternt sanga's single "5 O'Clock" reached a new Hot 100 peak of No. 25 . The timing wasn't exactly coincidental. The track, on which T-Pain is supporte ... More >>

The Ten Best Young Jeezy Tracks Released Since He "Fell Off"

​You guys drank the Kool-Aid, didn't you? Now all you can rave about is Rick Ross. Tsk, tsk. The guy told you himself, in no uncertain terms, that he's caught up in a fantasy. Yeah, he's got a talent for picking huge, cinematic beats, and he strings words together nicely from time to time. Pro ... More >>

Live: Young Jeezy Plays To The Locals At The Highline Ballroom

Young Jeezy Highline Ballroom Monday, July 25 Better than: Listening to Funkmaster Flex break a record live on air. Yep, Jay-Z did come out to play, and yes, Kanye did put in an appearance, but the biggest draws at Young Jeezy's NYC gig were the secret stars. Despite initially taking the stage wi ... More >>

Five Questions To Ask At Ben Westhoff's Dirty South Reading

​Tonight, Voice contributor and hip-hop sommelier Ben Westhoff will read from Dirty South, his look at the populist rise of rap music from the southern states, at Williamsburg's Book Thug Nation. The book focuses on the bigger names to have emerged from the south, with chapters based around Bi ... More >>

Tonight: Voice Writers Spin Holiday Rap At Gallery Bar

Yes, this holiday hip-hop happy hour-themed party thrown by none other than our own nightlife correspondent Puja Patel is called "I Got Ho's," and yes guest DJ and SOTC stalwart Christopher R. Weingarten has threatened to play a solid hour's worth of Christmas-themed rap (not to mention Insane Clo ... More >>

The Original Shank Returns, Afterhours This Saturday

You remember the Shank. The ignomious afterhours Williamsburg spot of unprecedented size, bravado, and debauchery that's golden age lasted for, approximately, one month of winter 2009. The concrete mud-bucket that cornered the market on baby laxative and earned itself a New York Press cover story ... More >>

Jay-Z And Eminem Will Probably Be Bringing A Shit-Ton Of Famous People With Them To Yankee Stadium

​Jay-Z and Eminem began their triumphant two-city, four-show run last night at Detroit's Comerica Park, and if that show's any indication, when they show up at Yankee Stadium September 13 and 14, they'll be bringing along every famous rapper they (or you) can think of.

Rick Ross May Have Just Responded to Young Jeezy (Who Also Put Out A Mixtape Today)

​Though Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy is playing it ultra cool regarding "Death Before Dishonor," the "B.M.F."-checking freestyle he released a couple days ago, it seems pretty clear the song was aimed at Rick Ross. (His denial, at MTV, is less than convincing: "That's for anybody. I got n---as i ... More >>

Young Jeezy Is Still Dissing Rick Ross, Sort Of

​Rick Ross' disconcerting habit of pretending he is other still-living people continues to get him in trouble, both with those people and other people who know those people. Young Jeezy has taken issue with Ross' Black Mafia Family shout-out/misappropriation "B.M.F. (Blowin' Money Fast)" -- th ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Amazing: Presenting "Caucasian," the Best Kanye West Parody/Remix Ever

Courtesy of Sporting News basketball blog the Baseline, please enjoy this reimagining of Kanye West's previously discussed 2009 NBA Playoffs theme song "Amazing," here rechristened "Caucasian" and dedicated to the league's white players. The Young Jeezy part is pretty astounding. "I like mayonnai ... More >>

Maino, Meet Young Jeezy

The official remix of journeyman Brooklyn rapper Maino's post-T.I. summer-anthem-in-the-making "All the Above," still featuring T-Pain on the hook and now sporting a value-added new verse from Young Jeezy, is out. Maino takes the opportunity to update the song with a still-timely swine flu reference ... More >>

Wait a Minute: Chrisette Michele Outsold Ciara?

Chrisette Michele's weepy, fiery, only occasionally baby-shaking Epiphany debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, a huge coup for the vaguely retro-minded r&b belter. Her legacy, alas: At 83,000 sold, it's the weakest #1 record in Nielsen SoundScan's nearly two-decade history. She just won the last g ... More >>

Jadakiss' Last Kiss Finally Let Go

Why don't you just kill yourself? We throw up our hands, basically. Is it more gully when Jadakiss threatens to giftwrap a package of C4 and send it to your mother ("New York Minute") or when he vows to leave another man's DNA all over that man's Louis scarf ("Come and Get Me"), or are both topped ... More >>

How Will Obama's Presidency Change Hip-Hop?

So goes the headline on a smart Slate piece by Jonah Weiner about rap and Obama. Smart because it neatly grasps the theoretical implications an Obama win has for hip-hop. Weiner's crucial graf: Obama's rise might weaken the position of those less explicitly political MCs, for instance, who rap ab ... More >>

Strippers and A Dude With No Teeth: On Young Jeezy's "Welcome Back" Video

Probably the most underrated song off Young Jeezy's slightly underrated The Recession gets a video. Sort of. This YouTube mash-up reminiscent tour through various Jeezy concerts, cars, tour buses, and parking lots doesn't have much to it besides a stripper in an obligatory halo of cash and a brief ... More >>

Rappers for Obama, and Vice Versa

Why Young Jeezy and his revitalized ilk owe our new president more than he owes them

The Top 20 (and Far Beyond)

Big year for metal, hip-hop, and Paul Simon/pigfucker reconciliation

The Sordid History of Showbiz Pizza Place House Band the Rock-afire Explosion

Rap Activism, Or Not: Young Jeezy on NPR

Young Jeezy Tackles Our Wintry Economic Climate

Young Jeezy Live at the Blender Theatre

Recommended: Young Jeezy at the Blender Theater

LET’S GET IT

Young Jeezy fights off the recession

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Singles

8Ball & MJG's Moment is Coming

Kanye West: Going Nuts?

T.I.'s Inspiring Return

Status Ain't Hood Podcast 30

Status Ain't Hood Podcasts 25 & 26

Live: Hot 97's Summer Jam

The Quarterly Report: Best New Singles

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

We Major (in Sociology)

You've taken this class before, but Professor Jeezy still makes it worthwhile

The Wire vs. Coke-Rap

The Quarterly Report: The Summer's Best Albums

Status Ain't Hood Does Summer Jam

Jay-Z is Rapping Again

Explorations in Mixtape Nation

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

The Quarterly Report: Status Ain't Hood's Favorite New Singles

Trapped in the Kitchen

Current coke-rap LPs raise the crucial question: If I'm the seller, who's the buyer?

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

Public Service Announcement

Status Ain't Hood Interviews Young Jeezy