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Drake isn't helping all the talk surrounding his own simp-hood with interviews like this. Call it a backhanded compliment, a complisult or throwing shade if you want, but Drake just restarted his beef with Kendrick Lamar while praising Lamar's debut album good kid, m.A.A.d. city. In an interview with VIBE Drake seemed to have nothing but love for the Compton kid's major-label effort: Read More »
Let me go ahead and clear up the confusion that literally no one is suffering from: Del The Funky Homosapien is not Beyonce. Read More »
Azealia Banks has revealed in a Twitter Q&A that her long-awaited debut album Broke With Expensive Taste will finally drop in March of this year (personally, we'll believe it when we see it). While most of the talk centered around her new album, Banks couldn't miss an opportunity to do what she's most famous for. She reignited her beef with UK dance music duo Disclosure, claiming that the beat created in their disastrous 2013 collaboration wasn't even worth the fuss. Read More »
Reknowned singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco recently planned a retreat for likeminded aspiring feminist poets to get their sang on. While that in and of itself seems like a harmless gesture, when you include the fact that the planned retreat was on a former slave plantation in Louisiana things get a bit dicey. Throw in the fact that 2013 saw more and more people questioning why feminism is regularly framed in terms of the white female perspective and you have a white-hot Internet explosion waiting to happen. Read More »
Busta Rhymes has spent the last half of 2013 dropping friendly reminders that he deserves to be mentioned in every Top 10 list for the rest of time, just in case we all forgot. His new collaboration with N.O.R.E., snuck in just under the 2013 buzzer is no exception. The duo make as strong a case as has been made this year for New York hip-hop over a beat that sounds like "California Love" being played in a dive bar. Read More »
It's safe to say that 2013 was a good year for English rockers Bastille. They scored a decent hit in the States with their Coldplay-esque warrior chant-a-long "Pompeii" and their debut album Bad Blood was certified platinum in the UK. Still it appears they do have some complaints. Frontman Dan Smith says that they would already have a Bad Blood follow-up in the can if they didn't have to tour so much to capitalize on the success of their first album. Read More »
In what can only be an attempt to out-surreal the idea of a Vampire Weekend song that samples Souls Of Mischief, Ezra Koenig's outfit have released a remix of the Modern Vampires Of The City cut that includes guest verses from Heems (formerly of Das Racist -sobs for three hours-), Despot and Danny Brown. Read More »
So, Questlove is the latest example of what happens when you build someone up to crazy levels. The certifiable musical genius and excellent memoirist revealed that he's still a people and as such, has some sh**ty sides to his personality with a series of racist Instagram posts. Read More »
A$AP Ferg's slow-burning, reflective "Hood Pope" comes at a perfect moment in the middle of his recent mixtape-turned-debut-album Trap Lord. After the gold-flaunting circus sound of "Shabba" and the menace of "Lord", but a full two tracks before he squanders a bit of the album's momentum with a chorus of "I f**ked your b**ch" and "She sucked my d**k." Read More »
I missed my opportunity to see Prince shred both when he played the Super Bowl a few hours south of my hometown and when he held an incredible pajama party in his home. However, I will always have this video of the Purple One tearing into "Something In The Water" in front of a Mohegan Sun crowd to comfort me. Read More »
Nicki Minaj took a lot of flack for getting her money with the pop-heavy Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. However, it looks like Minaj is back in a Beam Me Up Scotty mode, eating the haters alive with a remix of PTAF's 2012 hit "Boss Ass Bitch." Read More »
There's no doubt Drake deserves credit for breaking Migos to those outside the Atlanta/hip-hop blog circuit. His remix of "Versace" spread Quavo, Takeoff and Offset's hyped up to 11 mixtape YRN much farther than it would have gone on its own merits. That being said, I think we can consider the favor more than repaid with their excellent, Future-ish remix of the much-hyped Nothing Was The Same cast-off "Trophies." Read More »
Need a sign from the Internet that it's time to go to s;eep? Check out this Hello Kitty reimagining of Eminem's MMLP2 single "Rap God." Read More »
