refinedhype
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In Which I Honestly Try to Like Future’s “Honest” Album (Stream)
There a pros and cons to every job. For example, working in an office, you get health benefits and a steady income but you are (probably) bored out of your mind all day. Sure, as a blogger, I don’t have…
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Meet Niykee Heaton
As you are probably already aware of, the purpose of these Meet pieces is to show you something a little different than your typical rapper, but equally as enjoyable. I always try to find that unique, RefinedHype hook, that’ll ensure…
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I’m Ron Burgundy? How Do You Feel About Nas’ Teleprompter?
Saturday was a big concert day for me, and I only went to one actual show. After seeing Brother Ali and Rapsody kill it, I went home, flipped open the laptop and voilà, live Coachella stream. I caught the end…
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This Week in Hype: Internet Haterz, The Origins of Pu**y Poppin & EddieFTW
Here’s the thing when you name a podcast “ This Week in Hype “. You have to deliver it weekly. In retrospect maybe “This Fortnight in Hype” would have allowed me to get some more sleep. But then again, I really…
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Five Guilty Pleasure Songs Of 2014
In general my policy on music is if you love it, fuck what everybody else thinks. Life is too short to worry about what other people think, especially about music. If you dig it, fucking own the shit out of…
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The Hypemen Podcast, the Lost Episodes: Combat Jack
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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Lost Ones: What Happened to Petey Pablo?
Petey Pablo is a perfect example of the business sentiment, “it’s never too late to start your dreams.” His rap career takeoff at 27, after five years of incarceration, backs up that statement up perfectly. I’m getting ahead of myself though,…
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Five 50 Cent Songs Even Haterz Love
50 Cent seems to be a hot topic as of late . I don’t consider myself a hater, but in this day and age, apparently not really caring means you are a hater who wants nothing but bad things to…
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What’s the Best Hip-Hop Sample of All-Time?
I’ve done a lot of these “Questions of the Week”, but somehow, someway, I’ve never really touched one of the absolute foundations of hip-hop; the sample. Well that all ends today, let’s talk some “What’s the Greatest Hip-Hop Sample of…
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Meet The Narcicyst
I was born and raised in D.C so, with the exception of the Washington Monument, I have pretty much been to every main museum, monument, building, street, or anything touristy; including the Kennedy Center. Before last week, the last time…
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Black Girls Rock: The State of Women In Hip-Hop With Rapsody
I’m a hypocrite. After studying gender roles (especially in hip-hop) for a good chunk of my college career, I swore to myself that if given the chance, I would never help feed into the gross misrepresentations of masculinity and femininity…
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Heat Check: How Do You Feel About Future Ft. Kanye West “I Won”?
So it’s 5 A.M. here in D.C and I’m up listening to Future because I woke up and I just had to check Twitter. I saw that Future had a new song and I had no choice but to pop…