hiphop

The science of gangsta rap
There's so much further you can go with this, but the Venn Diagram is hilarious.
For The Wire, rap that’s pure Baltimore
No national rap star has emerged from Baltimore, despite all this grass-roots activity, largely because a distinctive local black sound — Baltimore club, or house, a thrusting, occasionally lewd form of dance music — already existed.
Jeff Chang on Jay-Z's rise, and decrease, in relevance
The article also serves as a mini-history of the Crack Rap genre.
"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.
Sasha Frere-Jones reviews Ghostface Killah's Fishscale
I'm more of an Inspectah Deck man myself.
Houston hip-hop takes over
If I listened to mainstream radio, I probably would have noticed that.
Arrested Development (the rap group, not the TV show) is making a comeback
With 19 members instead of the usual 6.

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