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Monster Energy Presents the History of Rap

April 28th, 2014
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Monster Energy Presents: The History of Rap

The first priority when recounting the story of rap is to acknowledge the true school OG fathers who inseminated the world with the seeds of genius. The Pioneers were from the Bronx and listened to a lot of Bob Dylan, and Muhammad Ali, and Lou Reed, and Shakespeare, and came up with the idea of rhyming words together.

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Wale Weak Closing Ceremonies

April 18th, 2014
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The Weak in Wale - Day 5

We are brought to this final day of Wale Weak in which much has been learned, particularly in the fields of mental illness, historical find-and-replacing, and rap skullduggery.

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Review of All Wale’s Album Pages on Amazon.com

April 17th, 2014
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The Weak in Wale - Day 4

In this edition of Amazon album page reviews, we take a listen to Wale’s albums (but not all the mixtapes, because Jesus give us a break).

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Wale Libs

April 16th, 2014
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The Weak in Wale - Day 3

Wale has given us exclusive access to his archives and we have uncovered this artifact that offers a glimpse inside the rapper’s mind. It is a Mad Libs page he filled out and edited long ago (like a couple years).

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Year in Wale 2014

April 15th, 2014
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The Weak in Wale - Day 2

Today, Wale looks back at what’s going to happen to him this year. We did not question this.

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Wale Wale Wale Wale

April 14th, 2014
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The Weak in Wale - Day 1

We have temporarily ceded control of our website to rapper/activist Wale (for the week), who threatened to come to our offices and such and such and so and so if we did not provide him a platform.

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Yo! Antiques Road the Show! – Season 1 Premiere

April 1st, 2013
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Yo! Antiques Road the Show

From the network that brought you original programming such as Trifetime: Television for Thugs and 24-hour news coverage of the 9/11 Commission’s Testimony from Hip-Hop comes an all new show featuring you, our readers! Let’s tune in…

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Sought After Performer: Interview with Lil Kil

August 25th, 2010
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Lil Kil of Washington D.C.’s the Knockheadz is one of the most sought-after performers in hip-hop today. His solo mixtape, IMAX in the Streetz is a contender for album of the year, even though it is not actually an album. White journalists/bloggers/Twitterers are afire with enthusiasm for the rapper. Tom Breihan tweets that he is “better than Divine Styler, if I knew who that was.” Jessica Hopper has not called him a misogynist. Noz has posted fifteen sound files and gotten into heated arguments in his comments section.

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“Only Difference Is I’m Fatter Now”: Interview with Shallah Raekwon

September 24th, 2009
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Okay, do you really need back-story on Raekwon? You know all this shit already. If you need structure in your life, insert any other mag’s intro here and just read the fucking interview. You know we’re not getting paid for this, right?

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Review of Asher Roth Album Page On Amazon.com

August 4th, 2009
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Music is not worth listening to anymore. Yet, it is still worth hating. The question becomes, how to listen to enough music to hate on with the least amount of effort (yes, even less effort than being an online reviewer). Solution: Amazon.com, which in its futile effort to sell music gives the somewhat motivated Hater […]

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