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From Drake to Kanye, The Rap Power Rankings (March, 2015)
Now that we’re three months into these Rap Power Rankings with the good folks at Green Label things are really starting to take shape, we’re starting to separate the contenders from the pretenders. The game changes every minute of every month so…
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March Madness Rapper Tournament Championship: Kendrick vs. Nas
Over a month ago Lucas came to me with an idea: March Madness is coming up, why not do a rapper March Madness. At first I laughed it off – frankly it seemed insane. Maybe a Sweet 16, maybe, but…
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Black Thought is the Best Emcee Alive, Period
Black Thought connected three strangers on Connecticut Avenue at 12:30 in the morning. That’s power.
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DJBooth March Madness Rapper Tournament: Final Four Winners
I’m willing to admit I’m losing touch with reality. This weekend, when Wisconsin beat Kentucky, I was estatic. Not because I particularly cared about either team, but because in my warped, twisted brain I saw it as proof that the…
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Platinum Plus: It’s Time We Decided if Music Sales Actually Matter
Famous 21st century poet laureate and philosopher Yo Gotti once said, “Women lie. Men lie. Numbers don’t lie.” While no one can argue about the shade thrown by both genders, the whole “numbers don’t lie” thing is up for debate, at least…
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DJBooth March Madness Rapper Tournament: Sweet 16 Winners
This entire procress is really making me appreciate what it’s like to play in the March Madness tournament. I mean sure, the actual atheletes are actually playing games and spraining ankles and what not, but for three weeks now I’ve…
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Two Chicago Emcees Mick Jenkins Eyes as Competition
Fresh off a slew of performances in Austin for SXSW, Mick Jenkins stopped by Sway In The Morningfor an interview and performance. During their conversation Jenkins was asked by Sway about fellow Southside emcees Chance the Rapper and in particular Vic Mensa, who has…
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Oh My God, If Drake Dies Is He A Legend?
Rappers are no strangers to hyperbole. I sincerely doubt Kendrick wishes his dick was as big as a national monument and we all know Makonnen is more likely to spend Tuesday watching How I Me Your Mother reruns. It’s not a bad…
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Hol’ Up: What If Kendrick’s New Album Sucks?
It’s a dark, dark world…. After the great music industry collapse of 2015, the world has gone to shit. The infrastructure of our society has crumbled. There is no government, no stock market, no United Nations, no Chipotle and worst of…
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How King Kendrick Quietly Ruled 2014
Kendrick Lamar isn’t ordinary. He functions against the popular standards, rebukes his growing celebrity, wages war against industry logic, and yet has mastered the art of keeping us captivated. Kendrick hasn’t dropped a full-length project in two years, that’s a…
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Who Was the Worst Rapper of 2014?
Over the last week we’ve been highlighting the year’s best music because December is a great time to pause and appreciate all the amazing music we’ve been blessed to hear over the last 12 months …but fuck that. Who wants to…
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What’s the Best Song Hook of 2014?
Now that it’s almost the end of the year, the Best Of The Booth Awards are in full effect (no Wreckx-n). For the sake of time, importance and our sanity, we narrowed our yearly awards list down to ten categories we…