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The science of gangsta rap →

There's so much further you can go with this, but the Venn Diagram is hilarious.

tags: gangsta rap, hiphop, rap, via:countablyinfinite | # | 1 comment Sep. 9th, 2007

What The Notorious B.I.G. can teach university professors →

“For 'crackhead,' think 'student with a late paper.' For 'credit,' think 'extension.'” The comments are split between people who think it's brilliant and those who are appalled by all the cursing. Bonus points, I say, for quoting MF Doom.

tags: MF Doom, Notorious B.I.G., rap, teaching | # | comment Aug. 28th, 2007

Doesn’t Seem Like a Good Fit For a Rapper Trying to Make Himself Look Tough

December 7, 2006

Max O'Keefe: “My limited understanding of the rap game and all that it entails was surpassed when I turned on MTV and I saw a rapper wearing a Winnipeg Jets jersey. (Unfortunately, I cannot remember who it was). For all of you out there not familiar with the history of the NHL, the Winnipeg Jets were a professional hockey team that eventually got moved to Phoenix in 1996. Maybe it’s me, but a currently non-existent hockey team that was once based in Canada doesn’t seem like a good fit for a rapper trying to make himself look tough.”

The rap video that featured the Winnipeg Jets jersey was Da Youngsta's "Hip Hop Ride", and the team existed when the video came out in 1994.

So incongruous it seems to have black American rappers wear jerseys of a sport popularized by white Canadians that I decided to add a 'wiki' page of hockey jerseys appearances in rap music videos (I put 'wiki' in quotes because you can't edit it). So far I know of 4 videos with rappers in hockey jerseys (Smif-N-Wessun's "Let's Get It On", Black Moon's "I Got Cha Opin", Nas' "The World Is Yours", Da Youngsta's "Hip Hop Ride"), but if you know of more, send me the link to the video and I can add it to the list.

tags: Black Moon, Nas, Winnipeg Jets, hockey jerseys, rap

Sasha Frere-Jones on Ludacris, but no mention of "Southern Hospitality"? →

Screenshots of Luda in the video for "Area Codes" is my 404 page.

tags: 404, ATL, Atlanta, Ludacris, rap | # | comment Sep. 25th, 2006

"The situation at 395 Hudson is as a kind of tribal struggle" →

Describes the recent confrontations between rappers and their posses outside Hot 97 in NYC.

tags: NYC, hiphop, rap | # | comment Jul. 18th, 2006

If you don't like rap, are you a racist? →

tags: hiphop, racism, rap | # | comment May. 29th, 2006

What rap can learn from Saturday Night Live's "The Chronicles of Narnia Rap" →

It's missing the goofiness of early Beastie Boys (esp. the Paul's Boutique days).

tags: Andy Samberg, Beastie Boys, Chris Parnell, SNL, narnia, rap | # | comment Jan. 3rd, 2006

Houston hip-hop takes over →

If I listened to mainstream radio, I probably would have noticed that.

tags: Houston, hiphop, rap | # | comment Nov. 7th, 2005

Arrested Development (the rap group, not the TV show) is making a comeback →

With 19 members instead of the usual 6.

tags: hiphop, rap | # | comment Aug. 20th, 2005

Shanghainese rap →

tags: Shanghai, Shanghainese, rap | # | comment Jul. 30th, 2005

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