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Part 2: GB1’s “I Hate the Everything”

January 12th, 2005
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I Hate The Everything

This is Part 2 of GB1’s “I Hate the Everything” series; a C-List Celebrity Look at some of hiphop’s most memorable events and topics. Last time, we covered everything from Chunky A to turntablism to EPMD’s breakup. What does Part 2 have in store? Come and check it out…

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Fake Thug Court Is in Session

May 12th, 2004
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Fake Thug Court Is in Session

The amazing career of Tupac Shakur cannot be pigeonholed with such labels as “fake thug,” “homo thug,” or “total fucking sham.” No, Tupac rose above all those mere terms and made fake thuggery an art, and his records canonize the rules and morals of a fake thug. Who else could be such a convincing on-wax tough guy that people think of him as a “West Coast ridah” and forgot he was actually a lousy East Coast rapper who called himself MC New York?

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Music, Watch – Volume 4

January 27th, 2004
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Music, Watch

If you’re like me, you heard this chorus on the radio (“I’ll teach you how to stunt”) and envisioned an awesome “Fall Guy” tribute of a video, complete with 50 jumping off Jeeps about to careen off cliffs and the like.

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Music, Watch

October 13th, 2003
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Music, Watch

In all honesty, I’m still not sure if I watched this video or it was all some sort of opium-induced haze. Well, from what I gathered…

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Backroom Whispers

July 11th, 2003
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We all should’ve seen this one coming: in a marriage of low-selling gangstas and high-selling homo-thugs, Murder Inc. and Death Row or Tha Row or whatever it is Suge wants it to be called this week are joining forces to form a superlabel called Murderer’s Row. It looks like mutual hate of Dr. Dre and mutual desire to pump Tupac’s corpse for more cash is enough to land a major distribution deal with Sony. The first single on the new vanity label, “Lead Poisoning” by Ja Rule and Crooked I (with Ashanti and her pitch-shifter singing the hook) is sure to have screaming 12-year-old girls rocking red bandannas in no time.

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