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"Well, I've trained karate around the world. I'm known all over as karate girl. I'm witty, I'm pretty, I've got the female smarts, so listen to our rap about the martial arts." More »
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There was a closing party for Ryan Trecartin's show "Any Ever" at the Museum of Modern Art's contemporary space, PS1, on Wednesday night, co-hosted by the museum and an online magazine called DIS. There was candy, and an open bar, and Trecartin's incredible video installations, which are about capitalism and market research and reality TV and the suburbs and youth the ways in which the contemporary environment makes us human beings complicit in — or even seek — our own commodification. Does that make it sound really boring, or not funny? It is actually very funny. More »
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Although Anne Hathaway stopped by Conan tonight to promote her new movie, One Day, she spent more time talking about her upcoming role as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. Hathaway said that during filming she almost reached her breaking point because of the aggressive paparazzi tracking her every move, but she coped with the stress by writing a nasty rap song about them. And then she performed it. More »
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Way back in 2006, Young Dro climbed the charts with his one and only hit, "Shoulder Lean". As much as I would love to regale you with stories of how this song was played at every party for the following two years, the reason I bring it up is because it's the song that started it all. In my mind at least. Young Dro's seemingly innocuous throwaway punchline started a trend that will probably outlast hip hop's greatest obsession — comparing oneself to shit. More »
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Finally, a musical tribute to the game that all of your smarty-pants (or you) are addicted to, Words With Friends. A sampling of the lyrics go something like this: More »
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Before Kreayshawn, there was the white girl covering hip hop hits on YouTube. Or, more precisely, there were many. More »
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Pop Chart Lab brings us an illustrated flowchart about all the haters who Forgot About Dre. What, you think he turned pop and the firm flopped? Y'all are the reason Dre ain't been gettin' no sleep. More »
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On Tavis Smiley's show last last week, Ashley Judd admitted that she could have chosen her words more carefully when she declared hip-hop to be anti-woman. In her new memoir, she writes of being asked to join a charity campaign: More »
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The artwork for Lil Kim's new mixtape, Black Friday, is an absolute masterpiece of Photoshop. In fact, the proportions are so bizarre — look at the waist as compared to the neck! — that we're not even sure the designer started with a photograph. Was Kim's head dropped on to someone else's body? Was the whole thing drawn? Whose boobs are those? Does she have ribs? Why do her thighs come out of her belly? Is one leg completely devoid of a foot? Jesus. More »
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Shad:"There's no girls rappin' so we're only hearin' half the truth....We don't hear about your brain, just your brains/How you rock a fella, Stacey Dash dames/We just need your voice like an a capella." Check out the top ten. More »
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If you don't have some sort of crush on Donald Glover, the unhearlded Robin to Joel McHale's hottie Batman on NBC's Community, this video of him freestyling might change your mind. Pretty sure this clip got me pregnant. More »
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Apparently Chelsea and her dad had some kind of hip-hop summit, in which she schooled him about rappers. Bill says of Weezy: "I hope what will happen is that he has a good life now." More »
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In a Wall Street Journal interview, Jay-Z distanced himself from lyrics like, "Many chicks wanna put Jigga fist in cuffs/Divorce him and split his bucks/Just because you got good head, I'ma break bread/so you can be livin it up?" More »
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This week on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy, Justin Timberlake, and The Roots performed a medley of hip-hop hits. Highlight include "Humpty Hump," Missy Elliott's "Work It," and Justin hitting Rihanna's high notes in "Live Your Life." More »
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Here's a fantastic and entertaining example of resistance: in the video below, a Columbia University a cappella group sings Dr. Dre's "Bitches Ain't Shit."  More »
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We're not the only ones who love Teen Witch's "Top That" rap sequence. The scene has spawned tributes from the likes of Alia Shawkat, Andy Samberg, Kenneth The Page, and the Totally Rad Show. More »
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Watch a "women's studies professor" attempt to school some kids with a rap: "Will that stain come out? It shouldn't be hard — cuz my girl Patsy Sherman invented Scotchgard." [Funny Or Die] More »
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Rapper Nicki Minaj catapulted to popularity in a matter of months, going from virtual unknown to appearing on tracks alongside Mariah Carey and Ludacris. Sadly, the shelf life for women in the hip-hop limelight is less than two years. More »
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French rapper Diam's is no stranger to controversy: at the forefront of France's hip-hop scene, she lyrically confronts issues like classism, racism, and politics. However, recent headlines focus not on her music, but on her decision to convert to Islam. More »
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Electro-pop star Ke$ha currently has a number one hit on iTunes, with her Asher Roth meets Miley Cyrus meets Rapture-era Blondie meets Basement Jaxx sound. So why does the NY Times think she symbolizes the new rise of white rappers? More »
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In the clip at left, a cat chases her canine companion around on a Roomba and tries to scratch him as their owner sings "Move Bitch" by Ludacris. It's just more proof that rap promotes violence. [Buzzfeed] More »
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Today, Jay-Z was on Oprah, where he spoke about why he doesn't speak about the Rihanna/Chris Brown situation, disagreed with Oprah about the use of the n-word and taught her how to rap…sort of. More »
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Do you know what will get kids off the street corners? Rapping about math. You might think it's dorky, but that's only because you haven't actually heard it. Once you do, you'll know it's dorky. [Everything Is Terrible] More »
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A new study suggests that 14 and 15 year olds who listen to music with sexual lyrics are more likely to be sexually active. But is music to blame for kids having sex too young? More »
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Gabe at Videogum is pretty sick of "fake rap." And to ensure that it is wiped off the planet, he's been collecting examples of the horrors that fake rap can bring. We thought we'd help. More »
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We've posted about the lack of female rappers before, and yesterday, Jonah Weiner had a story on Slate in which he wrote, "Today, female rappers are flukes on the charts, and exactly zero women were nominated at this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards and VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. What happened?" Word. Sure, Queen Latifah has a CD coming out in the fall. But the rap charts are fueled by testosterone, and it wasn't always so. In the early days of hip-hop, there was room for female MCs; it wasn't such a boys club. Weiner argues that women have been so marginalized in rap music that they're basically a joke: More »
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Remember rapper Riskay's heartfelt song about her cheating boyfriend "Smell Yo Dick"? Well, she finally got around to making an official video for it. The role of the boyfriend is played by a Big Pun impersonator, and the role of the "stripper ho named Diamond" is played by a Paris Hilton type. (Click image to view video.) [YouTube] More »
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Tipper Gore must be crapping herself with glee over the results of a new study claiming rap music activates pre-existing sexism. In the study, conducted by social psychologists at North Carolina State, "college students were randomly assigned to one of three groups. In the control group, students' levels of sexism were measured, but they did not listen to any music. A second group required students to listen to non-sexist rap music, while a third listened to a rap song with explicitly sexist language. Males were more sexist in all three groups. However, [researchers] found that sexist attitudes among respondents also increased after exposure to rap containing no sexist lyrics." [UPI] More »
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Proving yet again, that the Devil has all the best tunes, Christians have no sense of humor, and white men really shouldn't rap no matter how much they think they can, we give you godtube. Bonus points if you find the video explaining that bananas are proof that God exists. More »
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