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In the few years since T-Pain’s last album Thr33 Ringz, heavy applications of Auto-Tune have become the default; and associating him with the trend has almost become an afterthought. T-Pain probably has a right to complain, but either way, he still has the difficult task of proving that he has som...
Radioactive
A year to the week after Trunk Muzik deservingly got the retail treatment as one of the finest mixtapes in recent memory, the pride of Gasden, Alabama offers his studio debut, Radioactive. Despite the artist's esteemed major label backing and iconic co-sign in Eminem, the record feels as any ascent ...
The DiV
Pac Div are finally free. The LA based trio (Mibbs, Like, Be Young), went from being one of the hottest new MCs on the block to see their buzz fizzle while they were stuck in major record label purgatory. Now free of their deal with Universal Motown—and their original, would be debut, Grown Kids S...
Fear Of God 2
Having spent most of the last decade as an underground king and one half of Clipse, Pusha T excited rap fans last year when he joined Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music imprint and began experiencing stardom. His official solo debut is still a work in progress, but he’s managed to keep his momentum wit...
Ambition
Wale’s sophomore album Ambition could best be characterized by the line, “GQ ‘Man Of The Year’ / Cudi, Drizzy and me / Went away for a lil’ / Let my wisdom increase.”
Yes, there was a time when all three of these rising stars were considered equals. However, Wale’s musical journey since...
The R.E.D. Album
Many perceive Jayceon Taylor to be the loose cannon of Hip Hop, and they might be right. Equal parts of passion and madness, the trajectory of Game's career has included serving as the mouthpiece for G-Unit, being the mouthpiece against G-Unit, and preserving Dr. Dre's often doubted post-Detox legac...
From The Westside With Love II
From its inception, West Coast Hip Hop has been known for providing chill out soundtracks. Anything Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre is the epitome of a summertime drive - mind on the money and money on the mind. Leimart Park's own Dom Kennedy has been a longtime contributor to the summer breeziness of West C...
Section.80
“I spent 23 years on this Earth, searching for answers, ‘til one day I realized I had to come up with my own,” Kendrick Lamar says on his new album, Section.80. The Compton, California native delivers one of the year’s sharpest, smoothest albums - a testament to a well-crafted rhyme style, s...
"Finally Famous"
Big Sean has been using the slogan “finally famous” for years, but now it's more of a reality than ever. After a slow burn of a career that began when he signed to Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music in 2007, the Detroit native has garnered a nationwide fan base boosted by ubiquitous online videos, hect...
Bad Meets Evil
Eminem and Royce da 5’9” have been through quite a bit over the last few years, but here on the other side of the deaths, beefs and arrests, each man has recently come back into his own. With Royce having signed to Eminem’s Shady Records as part of Slaughterhouse, it’s only right that they c...
The Hangover
The Hangover
Although the summer has become primarily the domain of special effects blockbusters, there will always be high demand for a few solid feel-good comedies as well. While the ones with the biggest stars inevitably tend to get the most attention, this year it may be a different story.
The ...
Dance Flick by the Wayans Family
One of the good things about the new Wayans family spoof, Dance Flick, is you'll know within 60 seconds whether or not it's for you. A dance battle begins the movie, with two teams of dancers throwing out their best moves in an effort to outduel each other.
Roughly half a minute into the film, a d...
Tyson Review
If memory serves me right, Icried the night Buster Douglas knocked Mike Tyson out. I wept because the man,in the ring, was poetry in motion and to watch it all come to an end thatfateful night in 1990 was a difficult pill to swallow. Of course, I didn’trealize quite how hard that pill was for Mike...
Friday the 13th
The hockey mask wearing serial killer Jason Voorhees is back in the latest Friday the 13th film. However this is not just another installment in the Friday the 13th film series but a complete reworking of the storyline. The film keeps many elements of the original series, while at the same time being sur...
Slumdog Millionaire
In spite of all the international controversy about Slumdog Millionaire, now that the film has swept the Hollywood Oscars including the best movie of the year, Indians, I suspect, are going to have much to crow about.
How ironic that a half a year ago the movie's investors feared that they had made a...