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Brett Favre’s Sister Brandi Favre Arrested As Suspect In Meth Bust [Sporting News]

GTA IV: The New Movie Studio? [Gamma Squad]

First Dead Birds, Then Fish…Now Crickets? [MSNBC]

Nominees For 42nd Annual NAACP Image Awards Announced [TUD]

‘The Simpsons’ Porn Parody Is Nightmare Fuel [Warming Glow] Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been a year since Earthquake Haiti wreaked havoc throughout the country. It seemed like my world, along with many others in the Haitian diaspora, stopped when the news hit home. One by one, you’d hear a friend or relative had immediate family in the country and couldn’t get in contact with them. It was truly haunting feeling. But Lord only knows where people’s minds were at in ground zero. Read the rest of this entry »

Pardoning the obviousness of 2011 barely being a few weeks old, Eminem and XXL have made the biggest annoucement of the year with a simple pictorial statement. Read the rest of this entry »

Karma is a b*tch © LeBron James. Tom Hanks went full retard 15 years ago in Forrest Gump and his son grows up to make retarded music. And to make the pot sweeter, the idiot goes to Northwestern and made a “Black & Yellow” remix to fit his school. This means, I get to make fun of lil’ Hanks and the school I owe half of my soul to. Read the rest of this entry »

On days, rap gets redundant and the inbox comes filled with either tracks that don’t inspire or Rapper A. sending what will become another unfiltered, unnecessary offering. But Stalley’s consistently been different and refreshing. Read the rest of this entry »

The road to Gold County or Platinumville is looking like it will be a long one for Dirty Money’s Last Train To Paris. In the meantime, the ensemble’s “Someone To Love Me” now has a facelift thanks in part to new Mary J. Blige vocals and a fresh verse from Young Money’s HNIC. The queen debuted the track last week while visiting Angie Martinez at the Hot 97 studios and here we are days later with the coveted “no DJ” version. Read the rest of this entry »

Words by C. Paicely

It’s not often that you hear raw, unhinged soul coming from artists as young as the Chicago troupe, Kids These Days. For “Darling,” they come together for a hi-hat powered, blues-inspired head-mover about love and success. Read the rest of this entry »

With “I’m On One,” the next leak off his upcoming Gutter Rainbows project, Talib Kweli is out to give some advice to the rest of the rappers out there. In today’s Hip-Hop industry, there “Ain’t no patience for the wack emcee.” And as he has proven time and time again, Kweli excels at delivering poetic, precise verses with intelligence and skill. Artfully restraining his often frantic and cluttered flow, the veteran Brooklyn representative rides pounding drums and the hollers of a passionate crowd created by the Justus League’s Khrysis with ease. Read the rest of this entry »

Words by C. Paicely

While rookie Rock’s first video swept through desolate alleys and avenues, the Chi-town young gun’s latest effort throws us into one of the Windy City’s dimly-lit Hip Hop spots. Joined by Naledge and Phil Ade, we see Rockie rocking a crowd of hazy Caucasians and cuttin’ up with his blazed cohorts backstage, all the while maintaining his increasingly expected lackadaisical demeanor. Read the rest of this entry »

With so many rappers vying for the same audience by dropping mixtapes on top of EP’s on top of LP’s, the actual caliber of these artists ultimately take a backseat. Skill is replaced with swag, creativity trumped by perceived buzz, and so forth. Before he goes any further, Themidas Touch wants you to know that he very well that his spit is authentic as well as every bit of 14K like his name implies. Read the rest of this entry »

I remember an Outkast interview – in XXL, Rolling Stone or one of those other magazines – right around when Stankonia came out and the interviewer showed Big Boi a picture of Master P with Lil Romeo. Big’s response was that he wasn’t surprised Percy was still biting; Read the rest of this entry »

To those who make it their mission to sit in basements or libraries all day ready to pull the trigger and comment on anything they deem detrimental to “real Hip-Hop,” go read something else. Or stay here, it doesn’t matter. Gunplay, of Triple C’s fame, is not the most lyrically adept brother in the business; Waka Flocka isn’t either. Still, I’d be lying to you if I said I didn’t appreciate their energy drenched collaboration “Rollin’.” Read the rest of this entry »

As I’m writing this, the local “action” news and all the negativity that go along with it are muted and used only as illumination. The irony lies in the fact I’m listening to Rob Jay’s newest track, “Generational Curse,” which is about as uplifting as Yokozuna sitting on your shoulders. Read the rest of this entry »

Since dropping the ball in style to break in the new year, Snoop and Marty James decided they needed another monumental event to bless with an anthem. Since Valentine’s Day is for suckas, they pay homage to their home soil—which just so happens to be the home of NBA All-Star Weekend 2011. How many more theme songs does L.A. need? Well if you ask the Dogg, there’s room for one more as he and his new Nate Dogg call up Scoop DeVille to capture some Cali rays on wax. Read the rest of this entry »

The villagers are rebelling and they’re screaming they’ll no longer be a victim to tyranny. Leading the charge in a conical straw rice hat and bloody butter knife is no other than the Wu-Tang’s appointed leader, Raekwon The Chef. Call it big trouble in Little Tokyo because Rae is going for the jugular, leaving only the women and children alive on this cinematic banger from the album from the same name. Read the rest of this entry »