Rebecca Haithcoat

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Lil' Kim – Key Club – 6/13/12

Rebecca Haithcoat
Sean Healy Presents Lil' Kim Key Club 6/13/12 We have all been unfair to Lil' Kim. Try to imagine how scary it must have been to be the first female rapper to lay bare her sexual proclivities for the entire world to examine. Even if Notorious B.I.G. ghostwrote her words......
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The Internet, Kilo Kish – The Echo – 5/25/12

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: Odd Future's Syd the Kyd Joins The Internet The Internet, Kilo Kish The Echo 5/25/12 In September, Odd Future subgroup The Internet (producer Matt Martians and DJ/producer/engineer Syd the Kid) quietly released "Love Song - 1." Already a pretty wisp of a track, Syd elevates it to remarkable......
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The Pharcyde – The Roxy – 5/23/12

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: *The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride, 20 Years Later: 
An Appreciation *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List The Pharcyde The Roxy 5/23/12 Better than ... listening to the album. The city's been a little tense lately, honking on the freeway, power drinking, and slinking......
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Patty: The Revival

Rebecca Haithcoat
Meshing Patty Duke and Patty Hearst, creator-director Patrick Kennelly’s musical explores our fixation on the cult of personality and our obsession with molding young celebrity girls into pop tartlets. Patty (played by four performers, representing her id, ego, superego and “shadow”) is portrayed as a sacrificial lamb in today’s entertainment-saturated......
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Hit Boy: Whatever Kanye Wants …

Rebecca Haithcoat
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. "Ni**as in Paris," last year's most popular song, exploded in roughly the same amount of time that its producer spent creating it. "It took me probably 15 minutes to make......
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Toni Monroe Is a Big Beautiful Rapper

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: Top Ten Sexiest Fat Chicks in Music Toni Monroe is beautiful. She has a powerful stage presence, and doesn't need a hype man. But yet, she's something of a hard sell. For one thing, she's white. For another, as her press release says, she is rap's "biggest" new......
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The Laughing Cow

Rebecca Haithcoat
"What do you do when someone hands you information that makes you look at the world a little differently?" There's almost a Jerry Maguire feel to Jessica Abrams' funny world premiere The Laughing Cow, set in a family-friendly Hollywood studio (read: Walt Disney, where Abrams once worked). A lawyer (Kenny......