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This Week in Hype: The Death of “Indie” Rap, 15 Minutes With Pusha T & More
Welcome to another episode of the “ This Week in Hype ” podcast. It’s like Shakespeare, only with Rosa Acosta’s titties instead of romantic sonnets. Other than that though, exact same thing. After last week’s special edition with Alex Wiley ,…
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The Hypemen Podcast, The Lost Episodes: Peter Rosenberg
Way…..way….way….back in the day (aka 2010), when the entire concept of a rap podcast was still in its infancy, there was the Hypemen podcast. Up until the last episode in July of 2011, the Rosenthal brothers and Jensen Karp delivered almost…
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What Rapper Represents You? (aka Your Hunger Games Rapper)
The other day Lucas and I got to talking about hip-hop – because what else is there to talk about? – and off this article we got to circling around one question: if you had to pick one rapper to…
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7 Dope Underground Rappers You (Probably) Haven’t Heard Of Vol. V
What’s up RefinedHype Nation? I know it’s been a while, but I’m finally back with another batch of dope emcee’s you (probably) haven’t heard of. With everything from forgotten ’90s female emcees, to heavy jazz-influenced hip-hop, to modern day gangster rap,…
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Find Her: Who’s the Girl in Usher’s “Good Kisser” Video?
My apologies RefinedHype Nation. I spent most of today writing this Pusha T interview for the mothership that you should read. Or don’t read it, whatever, I don’t even care. But I didn’t want to leave y’all completely hanging today,…
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This Week in Hype: Hot Dogs, Chicago & Creativity with Alex Wiley
A new generation of artists have vaulted Chicago back into the national hip-hop spotlight, but while the drill scene certainly has an identifiable sound, the other movement in the Chi is defined by its drive to fight off easy definition. Singing,…
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The Rap Soundtrack to My Life – What’s Yours?
These last few weeks has felt like 1994 all over again. This past month, with the 20th anniversary of Illmatic , Nas has been in the headlines more times than he has the past 19 years. If you aren’t Illmatic-ed out by…
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The Hypemen Podcast, The Lost Episodes: Elliott Wilson
Way…..way….way….back in the day (aka 2010), when the entire concept of a rap podcast was still in its infancy, there was the Hypemen podcast. Up until the last episode in July of 2011, the Rosenthal brothers and Jensen Karp delivered almost…
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Teach Me To Love Dipset
Back in high school, we had yearbook pages, where put took photos, quotes or pretty much anything else they could think of and squeeze it into one personal page. I spent about ten minutes on mine – because who gives…
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5 Mac Miller Songs Even Haterz Love
Unlike most of the subjects for these “ Haterz Love ” pieces, I don’t actually have any hate for Mac Miller; it’s more like apathy. Mac is like a tuna sandwich for lunch. I don’t hate it, but won’t get excited…
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The Hypemen Podcast, The Lost Episodes: Angela Yee
Way…..way….way….back in the day (aka 2010), when the entire concept of a rap podcast was still in its infancy, there was the Hypemen podcast. Up until the last episode in July of 2011, the Rosenthal brothers and Jensen Karp delivered almost…
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From K. Dot to Prof. Macklemore, Your Favorite Rapper’s First Tracks
I wont front, the origins of this article lie in the new XXL Freshmen list. I won’t get into the the full cornucopia of reasons that list drives me insane, again , but yes, one of the big ones is…