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Welp, that’s it. The year 2010 is over, and what a rollercoaster it was. We lost many great musicians (R.I.P. Guru, Teddy Pendegras, Jay Reatard, Gregory Isaacs), but just as many stood up to take their place as the leaders of the next generation (Justin Bieber, Jackie Evancho, Odd Future).  T.I. got out of jail, made a terrible album, and then went [...]

When I saw the album cover, a picture of two awkward men standing on ‘moon planet’ and baring their chest hair in front of a custom Lamborghini, I knew I was about to experience something epic. However, when I pressed play, I was not prepared for the intense auditory and optical stimulation that ensued. As I [...]

Nicki Minaj is kind of everywhere all at once.  Reminiscent of other women in music, people either love Nicki to death or hate her with a passion.  Regardless, Miss Minaj has been on the tip of the media’s tongue in the past few months – from her Twitter marriage to Drake to her incredible verse [...]

A few weeks ago, Kanye expressed his love and appreciation for Justin Bieber via his Twitter account – including an open invitation to collaborate together.  Who knew that Raekwon would be involved as well? A few notes: How hard is it for Raekwon to rap over an old Wu-Tang beat?  Where’s the innovation? Justin Bieber [...]

Nothing says awesome like mashup parody videos, right?  Luckily, the Internet is full of a bunch of people who have nothing to do with the excessive amount of time on their hands.  Check out PopLemon‘s mashup mix below, featuring appearances by the entire cast of G.I. Joe and Sesame Street, with music by Mobb Deep, [...]

Last Friday, the Texas State Board of Education approved a measure which would leave hip hop culture out of social studies programs within their high schools – including their textbooks.  The reasoning behind this decision by the board was largely due to the “offensive” nature of rap lyrics. As a society, have we not moved [...]

Oh good grief, Lil Wayne. A preview of the artwork for The Drought is Overpast 7 was released a few days ago.  Let’s see who may find this offensive: Anyone who loves Jesus.  This is currently 2.1 billion people worldwide. Anyone who was in New York on 9/11/2001.  I’m pretty sure they may find offense [...]

Russell Simmons has always been the epitome of success to me.  Hailing from Queens, NY, Russell found his niche within the hip hop music industry and has literally paved the way for artists such as Jay-Z and Diddy to push beyond the boundaries of the music industry to truly develop a certain generation of hip [...]

It’s only right, in honor of Halloween… I present to my poplemons, ghost stories with Ghostface via Jimmy Kimmel Live.  Classic shit, truly.  I think it would have been 90x better if he was wearing a robe and sipping on something.

I told ya’ll a few weeks back that KRS-One had lost his damn mind. More confirmation via interview on the VH1 Hip Hop Honors red carpet is below. In this short clip, he explains, “Def Jam is the dopest label in hip-hop, in the culture of hip-hop. There really would be no hip-hop as we [...]

I’m sorry but… this is absolutely terrible.  In response to her unexpected b-girl pose on stage after Jay-Z and Alicia Keys rocked the MTV VMAs last week, Lil Mama released this freestyle video to the internet world in order to explain her side of the story.  Considered by many as a poor publicity stunt, it [...]

I’m sure the Internet (as well as traditional media) is on fire right now in regards to Kanye West‘s unpredicted outburst during the Best Female Video award, knocking sweet little Taylor Swift on her ass and expressing his belief that Beyonce should have won the award (both videos and songs, in my opinion, are lackluster [...]