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Original Content DMX blended horror, morality, and religious turmoil in the masterful "Damien" series.
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Mitch Findlay -
Original Content Why Lil Dicky's "Earth" is important.
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Sanibel Chai -
Original Content We continue down memory lane, looking at the history of the interaction between rap and rock.
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Gus Fisher -
Original Content Should we listen to music against a dead artist’s wishes? Determining how to appropriately immortalize deceased artists is a tall order, and one of the hardest questions in 21st-century pop music.
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Luke Hinz -
Original Content A decade after the rap blog era's crown prince first broke through, we're left looking back on his career with more questions and what if's than answers.
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Harrison Tenpas -
Original Content Fresh from Joyner Lucas wishing death upon him on "Devil's Work," we examine how Death Row's Suge Knight became the most hated villain in hip-hop's collective history.
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Robert Blair -
Original Content We look at the reciprocity between hip-hop and jazz over the years.
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Gus Fisher -
Original Content While originally written last year for the 20th anniversary of Dr. Dre's "2001," be sure to revisit this piece on the project's 21st birthday.
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Mitch Findlay -
Original Content Lil Wayne's verse on Mario's "Crying Out For Me" remix arrived during his acclaimed 2007 run.
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Rose Lilah -
Original Content With the recent release of YouTube’s documentary "G Funk," it’s as good of a time as ever to trace the history of the West Coast sound that ruled the world throughout the 90s and set the stage for hip hop as we know it today.
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Gus Fisher -
Original Content What can we take from Lil Peep's music following his death?
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Vince Rick -
Original Content A brief history lesson on how and why Migos' signature flow came to be.
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Gus Fisher -
Original Content A look at the life and times of Youngboy, and how his music can help us understand him just as much as his actions.
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Maxwell Cavaseno -
Original Content Now that he's laying down the law on a regular basis, it's time for a refresher course on how J. Prince became one of hip-hop's most formidable figures.
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Robert Blair -
Original Content On this day in 2004, MF Doom released his album "Mm..Food." We reflect on the album for Classic Rotation.
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Chris Tart -
Original Content When will Iggy Azalea's rap career see new life? Do we even want it to?
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E Gadsby -
Original Content Why the hip-hop community worships Nas' "Illmatic" and how the album's classic status has shaped the direction of the genre
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Luke Hinz -
Original Content Examining the "current state of hip-hop" and if we really need to "blame" anyone at all.
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Aida C. -
Original Content Cover art is more important than ever in 2018.
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Luke Hinz -
Original Content With "Tha Carter V" on the way, revisit an era where Lil Wayne went by "Baby D."
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Mitch Findlay
