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V-Nasty, Having Split With Kreayshawn, Talks About Her "$750,000" Deal

Editor's Note: Rapper V-Nasty has now spent two controversial years in the spotlight. She's an exhilarating personality who can bring it live if not necessarily on record. She gave her first ever interview to us in late 2011, and spoke on her use of the n-word, which still dogs her. See also: V-Na ... More >>

Eight Rules for White People Who Like Hip-Hop

White people and their sometimes-problematic place in hip-hop culture have been in the news recently. At The New Republic last week Dave Bry mulled Chief Keef and whether it's ok for white music critics to like violent rap, while we wrote about white entertainers who think they have a pass to say th ... More >>

Which White Entertainers Have a "Hood Pass" to Say the N-Word?

The late aughts saw a debate in the hip-hop community about the use of the n-word, sparked in part by Nas' plan to name his 2008 album Nigger (he ended up calling it Untitled), as well as Russell Simmons' call for industry self-censorship of the word. In 2007 the city of Detroit even hosted a "symbo ... More >>

Waka Flocka Flame - Club Nokia - 11/4/12

Waka Flocka Flame Club Nokia 11/4/12 There's this great moment midway through rapper MGK's video for "Wild Boy," on which Waka Flocka Flame is featured. "You think you're a good rapper?" MGK asks Waka. "Fuck no," Waka replies. See also: Our slideshow of the concert That was the general consensus ... More >>

Can I Strip And/Or Use Offensive Language During a Karaoke Performance?

By Allison Babka Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week on our sister music blog at the Riverfront Times brings you "Ask a Karaoke Host" featuring professional karaoke empresario Alli ... More >>

What the Hell Is Trap Music (and Why Is Dubstep Involved)?

You may have heard the term "trap music." You may even realize that what people are calling "trap music" today (which sounds a whole lot like dubstep) is not necessarily what people were calling "trap music" a few years ago. See also: Flying Lotus' Nocturnal Visions: Once believing himself destined ... More >>

Ten Rap Songs More Republican Than Nicki Minaj

Earlier this week Nicki Minaj stepped in a fresh pile of political shit when she, in an attempt to stir the pot on a "Mercy" freestyle remix, rapped that she is voting for Mitt Romney. People stupid enough to think anything Minaj does or says matters were outraged, and some even sent her death threa ... More >>

James Franco Vanessa Hudgens Ashley Benson vs. Asia Argento Charlotte Gainsbourg François Cluzet : Threesomes at the Toronto Film Festival

This is a blog post about two movies that were screened for the press within the first 24 hours of the Toronto Film Festival, both of which feature three-way sex scenes. In Spring Breakers, characters played by James Franco, Vanessa Hudgens and Ashley Benson "do it" in a swimming pool; in Do Not Dis ... More >>

Top 10 Sexiest Hip-Hop Video Vixens

LMFAO 'Bikini Girl' Says She Was Fired For Being 'Big Boned' Top Ten Sexiest Album Covers We've Ever Seen Top 60 Worst Lil Wayne Lines on Tha Carter IV Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List Thoughts From A Rando ... More >>

The Secret Meeting Between Skrillex, James Franco, Harmony Korine and Gucci Mane

Provocateur Harmony Korine has again reached deep inside his bag of WTF for his latest feature, Spring Breakers. Set for release in 2013, the movie's casting has generated quite a buzz already: It features Disney star Selena Gomez being bad, James Franco in cornrows, and Georgia rapper Gucci Mane sh ... 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 >>

Is Riff Raff Serious?

One thing's for certain: This maddeningly inscrutable white rapper is more entertaining than you are

Andrew W.K. - Avalon Theater - 3/8/12

See also: Our slideshow of Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Andrew W.K. with Math The Band Avalon Theater 3/8/12 Better than:...The sold-out 10-year anniversary show of Har Mar Superstar's Can You Feel Me?, which undoubtedly plays in Har Mar Superstar's mind every single day. Andrew W.K. isn't the ... More >>

BAYTL: V-Nasty's 20 Funniest, Most Inexplicable Lines From The Mixtape

​See also: As Nasty As She Wants to Be: Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Finally Tells Her Side of the Story As one blogger pointed out, V-Nasty raps "like your typical dude from the hood." It's true. "I'm a bitch but I rock like a male," she says on "Sick Swag," a song from her new mix ... More >>

Why This Song Sucks: The Worst Rap Tracks Of 2011

​I still don't understand why more people didn't like Unbreakable. It was suspenseful, smart enough, featured an attractive color palette, and it had a horribly creepy opening. (Remember the baby who was born with all of his bones broken?) And the most clever part -- the crux of the entire mov ... More >>

V-Nasty as She Wants to Be

Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Tells Her Side

Are Kreayshawn and the White Girl Mob About to Skip Town?

V-Nasty with Don Cannon at Atlanta's Mansion ​It's been rough times for the L.A.-based White Girl Mob, particularly Kreayshawn. Maybe that's why shortly after their recent show here, her crewmate V-Nasty tweeted that she and Kreayshawn had purchased an apartment in Chicago. Meanwhile, last we ... More >>

Top Five Moments from The Game's Hoodmorning (No Typo)

​On his new mixtape, Hoodmorning (No Typo), Game insults his haters' geographical acumen. "I'm in Cannes, France," he barks. "You don't know where that shit is." This might not be the strongest diss ever, but there's much to like on the tape; his voice is plaintively expressive, and he has an ... More >>

Odd Future, Move Over: Flying Lotus Gets Jazz Treatment By Canadian Trio

Alex Sowinski on drums, in a pig mask​Who says jazz is dead? Nobody, if Canadian trio BADBADNOTGOOD has anything to do with it. Back in April, we happened upon the group's eight-minute re-imagining of two songs from Tyler, the Creator's Bastard and (our personal favorite) Gucci Mane's "Lemon ... More >>

Live Review: Friends of Friends' Second Anniversary Party Saturday Night with JonWayne, Anenon, Groundislava, Baths, Shlohmo, Salva, and Mexicans with Guns

​​The Friends of Friends Music second anniversary party at the Echoplex Saturday night showed that label head Leeor Brown has tapped some of the most talented young producers working in Los Angeles right now. With the FoF Network, he knits together the rapidly-expanding corners of the beat ... More >>

Top 10 Least Sexy Sex Stunts in Rap Songs

​Rappers aren't known for their ability to make our toes curl at the merest suggestion of sex--they leave that to Jill Scott, or Jodeci, or J*Davey. No, they're likely to get us all twisted up in our bedsheets for a different reason--confusion. Hearing one too many lines that made us go, "Hu ... More >>

Music Picks: Of Montreal, Kristeen Young, Sofia Gubaidulina,

Also, Federico Aubele, Fancy Space People, Golden State and others

Odd Future Coming to a Candlelit Jazz Club Near You

The Pianist​Sure, you were surprised to hear Tyler, the Creator's "Yonkers" smack dab in the middle of Power 106 DJ Felli Fel's four-hour nighttime mixshow, instead of tucked away in Sunday's midnight "Wake Up Show," but what if you heard him in a jazz club? Matt Tavares, whose neglected MySp ... More >>

Page Two: A Young Person's Guide to Odd Future

The Complete Discography (till this afternoon)

Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)

Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

Music to Pick Up/Download

Wacka Flocka Flame's Mom Denies Being a Pimp

​Flamboyant rap star Gucci Mane (see yesterday's awesome list) and his "associate" Wacka Flocka Flame (who maybe is a novelty rapper, maybe not, we don't know, maybe the joke's on us, maybe not) are both managed by Wacka Flocka Flame's mom, a lady by the name of Deb Antney. Today, ATL police b ... More >>

Top 5 Hip Hop Guest Appearances Of 2010 (All of Them Involving Gucci Mane)

Gucci Mane loves accessories​Gucci Mane has a knack for making memorable song appearances. Whenever he leaves the studio he gets arrested so it's best he keeps busy at work. See, Gucci Mane is genuine. His real name is Radric, which contains the word "rad" and sounds like an Elizabethan Romanc ... More >>

News Haiku: Gucci Mane Arrested, MC Hammer Is Terrible, Weezy's Last Days in the Can, New Michael Jackson Tracks Fake?

News Haiku: Gucci Mane Arrested, MC Hammer Is Terrible, Weezy's Last Days in the Can, New Michael Jackson Tracks Fake?

Bun B Releases New Album 'Trill OG': Rapper Remembers Pimp C, Talks Soulja Boy Collaboration and Why Hip-Hop Can't Afford to be Lazy

Oldemar Alfaro[L-R] Talib Kweli and Bun B at the 'Trill OG' listening event​It's 9:27 AM in Houston when rapper Bun B picks up fellow emcee Dizzee Rascal from the airport. In Bun's car they cruise the streets, pull up to a house, and once inside, slide a stack of bills across a table. In excha ... More >>

Music Picks: Phosphorescent, Bomba Estereo, Gangi, Pablo Heras-Casado

Also, Jimmy Cliff, Suzy Williams, Funeral Party and others

Nightranger: Mo BET-ta Booze?

Mo' BET-ta Booze? Eminem and Dre, Prince and Monae at ASCAP's Rhythm & Soul Awards

Diddy was at Les Deux (and Playboy Mansion's Kandyland). Interscope held a velvet-roper at Playhouse. Will.i.am did his Dipdive at My Studio. And there was a mysterious Prince after-party and 3 a.m. jam session... somewhere. It seemed everyone hosted a shindig of some sort around the BET Awards. ... More >>

Music to Dagger to: Major Lazer and La Roux Team Up for Free Mixtape

Music To Dagger To: Major Lazer and La Roux Team Up for Free Mixtape

O.M.G.! Dubstepper Rusko Drops New Album Today

O.M.G.! Dubstepper Rusko Drops New Album Today

Rock Picks: The Strange Boys, Memory Tapes, Scout Niblett, Four Tet

Also, El Perro Del Mar, Phranc, Moonrats and others

Rock Picks: Prefuse 73, the Gaslamp Killer, VoicesVoices, Beyond the Pale

Also, Do Make Say Think, the Living Sisters, Wale and others

Rewinding Time with 'The Decade in Mixtapes': The '00s Transform the Art of the Mix

Rewinding Time with 'The Decade in Mixtapes

Game Drops "The" Then Drops New Street Single

​As The Game, LA rapper Jayceon Taylor released three incredibly solid albums, but is now switching it up a little bit for his upcoming fourth release, "The R.E.D. Album" (December 8th). He's redacted the The and will now be referred to simply as Game. He's promised two singles this week, the ... More >>