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This Week in Hype: Backstage at RevoltTV, Inside Funk Volume & More
It’s Friday and you know what that means; Thursday was yesterday and Saturday is tomorrow. Both true. But also…it means it’s time for a new “ This Week in Hype ” podcast. People of the world, rejoice. This week, I take…
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5 Young Jeezy Songs Even Haterz Love
It occurred to me the other day that I really dislike Young Jeezy . He isn’t intolerable (although he’s close to it), but what makes me hate him more is that people seem to give him a pass. When discussing…
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The Hypemen Podcast, The Lost Episodes: Bun B
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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Your Guide To: Audio Engineering
These Your Guide ‘s have typically been about new crews and labels but they don’t necessarily have to be. The goal is to breakdown anything hip-hop ( or porn ) related so that you can have the inside scoop to…
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What’s Your Favorite R&B Song of All-Time?
We’ve had a lot of rap, and a lot of debates, and a lot of rap-related debates around these parts lately. I love it, but you can have too much of a good thing, even boobs . So for the…
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Heat Check: What Do We Think About Drake’s “Draft Day”?
If there is one thing we love as much as rap, it’s sports. Okay, so it’s probably boobs, but sports is up there too. When the two come together (either boobs and hip-hop or sports and hip-hop) we are going…
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I Was There: Wale “Fights” a Twitter Troll at WWE Raw
I’m not ashamed to admit it, I went to WWE’s Monday night raw last night. I’m not a wrestling fan, and haven’t been since Stone Cold was chugging beers and stunnering people, but when the opportunity to go to Raw…
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Meet Jonwayne
The whole point of the “Meet” pieces is to show you something new, something different,something you might otherwise miss because it doesn’t fall into the hip-hop category. Usually, since y’all know nearly every rapper alive the spotlight shines on someone…
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After Jay Z vs. Drake, the De-Evolution of the Rap Diss
Growing up on classic hip-hop, when I hear the word “diss”, naturally the first thing that comes to mind is either “Ether” by Nas, “2nd Round K.O.” by Canibus, or the scene in “8 Mile” where Eminem slaughters Papa Doc, exposing…
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Who Still Cares About 50 Cent?
As always, Sunday night was spent perusing the charts of the mothership to see which songs I needed for the Top 20 playlist . There were the usual names, Drake, Big Boi, 2 Chainz but one name, which appeared more…
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Lost Ones: What Happened to Chingy?
As I strive to move away from one-three hit wonders and more towards actual post-fame super stars I can’t help but harken back to the days when regionality mattered in hip hop and wearing your hat completely sideways was actually…
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