Goodie Mob

These Are the Strangest Hip-Hop Soda Commercials

Earlier this month Mountain Dew pulled its Tyler, the Creator directed commercial wherein a trash-talking goat in a police lineup (full of black men) taunts an assaulted women attempting to identify the perpetrator. Accused of both racism and trivializing violence toward women, it was another Tyler ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time A few months back Rolling Stone put out their updated 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. (Here's a quickly-scannable version; Sgt. P ... More >>

The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 10-1

See also: The 20 Best Albums Not in the Canon: 20-11 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All Time *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All Time 10. Built To Spill Perfect From Now On (1997) Not really grunge but not springy ... More >>

Here's an Epic Ice-T Interview: Sure, He Once Wore Leather and Spikes, but He'll Still Fuck You Up

See also: *The Original Original Gangsta: Ice-T talks about his star-studded directorial debut, his famous affiliates and his life with Coco in New York *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House Perhaps because he moved back to the East Coast and became an actor, Ice-T is sometimes over ... More >>

Nappy Roots - El Cid - September 13, 2011

Rebecca HaithcoatNappy Roots​Nappy Roots El Cid September 13, 2011 Better than ... whatever you were doing at home. Hip-hop group the Nappy Roots have four albums, one of which is multi-platinum. Their producers include everyone from Raphael Saadiq to Kanye West to Lil Jon. And to this day, ... More >>

Top Five Greatest Rap Hook Singers

Frank Ocean​Last week we were supposed to get the major label release of Odd Future cohort Frank Ocean's debut project, nostalgia, ULTRA, previously a mixtape. Unfortunately, the suits at Def Jam have apparently stricken it from the upcoming-release schedule, with Ocean reacting by releasing t ... More >>

Top Ten Bands Who Need To Reunite, NOW

Nope, this doesn't count​Last week, we discussed ten bands who ruined their legacy by reuniting. Don't get the wrong idea, though -- we're not complete haters. And so, here are the groups we'd like to see put together one last reunion tour. Note: We're only talking about bands with all of thei ... More >>

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Big Boi: The Legend

Outkast's less flamboyant half steps into the spotlight at Club Nokia

Here it is! Cee-Lo's Official Video for "Fuck You!"

​A couple of weeks after the "lyrics" video for Cee-Lo's "Fuck You!" became a viral sensation (and he started selling t-shirts), the Goodie Mob/Gnarls Barkley vocal genius drops his official video for the song. Controversy-bait alert: it features children lip-synching the chorus. Here it is, ... More >>

Cee-Lo Now Selling "Fuck You!" T-Shirts, Rush-Releasing Digital Single

http://www.ceelogreen.comCee-Lo sez FU​Cee-Lo Green is no fool. After going mega-viral with a lyrics-only YouTube video for his song "Fuck You!," the Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley vocalist has now released the soul jam himself as a digital download through his website. Cee-lo is giving you t ... More >>

Transformers, Bel-Air Brats and Kobe, Oh My! Lakers Parade at Coliseum Brings L.A. Together

Jeff CowanLakers fans: Storm Troopers and Transformer Bumble BeeLos Angeles doesn't really do civic pride. We're too aloof and jaded for that sort of thing. We're a secular, sunglasses indoors, windows up, bowling alone type of town (except that when we bowl, it's usually at some swanky alley with a ... More >>

Weiss Muxtapes #7 and #8: I Can't Live Without My (Internet) Radio

Have you ever read this blog and wondered to yourself, hmm...this Jeff Weiss fellow has some self-righteous and ill-founded opinions, is it possible that he may be in the wrong medium? One would hope. Yet despite my repeated attempts to turn these misguided ideals into a viable run for the GOP nom ... More >>

The Gospel According to Cee-Lo

The poet of Gnarls Barkley reveals the broken-but-beating heart of an unlikely hit

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Can You See Me?

It Ain’t Dark Down There At All

God Made Them Phunky

OutKast: Art, artifice, booty and the beat

Welcome to the Nuttwerx

Around the bend and back again with Fishbone

I'm 48

Growing old with Alice Cooper

Music 1998:

The good, the bad and the combusticated