- Blogs, Bleader, May 6, 2013
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Rocko's "Feels Guud" is your Monday jam
Positive mental attitude from an embattled Atlanta MC
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 16, 2013
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Future, Drake, Lil Wayne, and pop's fluid identity
How features, collaborations, and various team-ups are reshaping the pop charts
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Apr 10, 2013
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Gossip Wolf: Bobby Conn re-creates his Hideout residency on Bandcamp
Plus: Eitarnora's austere party favors, Jody Duff's decadent feast, and more
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Ace Hood and Future's hallucinatory, star-studded "Bugatti"
It's Ace Hood's song but it's Future's show
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 23, 2013
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A tough lesson about the N-word
Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 23, 2013
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Chicago designer Chaz L. Morgan on making art for Meek Mill and more
A couple decades ago Chaz L. Morgan began drawing pictures as a kid in Maywood, Illinois. Now 25, he's making a living designing album artwork for famous rappers.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 28, 2012
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My Best of 2012 Spotify playlist—five hours of the year's most pleasure-inducing music
Where else can you hear ZZ Top's "I Gotsta Get Paid" and E-40's "I'm Laced" in the same place?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 18, 2012
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Chief Keef's Finally Rich is good, bad, and mostly OK
Some decided to love or hate Chief Keef's Interscope debut prior to its release, but the album shouldn't inspire such strong feelings
- Music, Three Beats, Nov 21, 2012
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Three Beats: Chance the Rapper pushes Acid Rap at Metro
Plus: Disappears play Rainbo for a bartender shot in the face, and Dusty Groove returns to the reissue biz with Real Gone
- Music, Music Feature, Nov 20, 2012
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Who owns trap?
Does music born of Dirty South drug wars have any place in squeaky-clean dance clubs?
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 13, 2012
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Color me amped about Bun B's hip-hop coloring book
Rappers + coloring books = $$$
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 10, 2012
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Chicago flavor in new music from Rick Ross and Kendrick Lamar
The Black Bar Mitzvah and Good Kid, Maad City have at least one thing in common—Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Oct 4, 2012
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Outsider musicians, an unsung soul-jazz genius, and a cool T-shirt on the B Side
David Liebe Hart, crusty black metal, and a nice Bulls/Rick Ross mashup
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 24, 2012
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"Pop That (Party Break)" is your Friday-afternoon jam
Nick Catchdubs will help make everything OK
- Music, Music Feature, Nov 17, 2011
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Drake charts a course for pop
With the new Take Care, he erases the last lines between hip-hop and the rest of the Top 40
- Music, Music Review, Jul 28, 2011
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DJ Khaled and the hip-hop illuminati vs. Danny Brown
The Miami-based producer has a team of crazy millionaires, but the Detroit MC only needs himself
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2010
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Kanye's Beautiful Dark Twisted Rape Fantasy
Kanye's upcoming video for "Monster" appears to have a serious problem.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2010
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Kanye and His Weird Circle of Friends Drop New Tracks
An indie folkster, hip-hop's Queen of Weird, and the biggest tween-pop star in the world walk into a bar . . .
