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Like it or not, pimpin’ is a leopard-skin swatch of hip-hop’s patchwork tapestry.  Mostly you gotta try and laugh at it.  So I come to bury the pimp not to praise ‘em. Prostitution is an ugly fucking business.  But those old Cadillacs were mighty fly. 42nd St. (A.M. Breakups Remix) - Super Chron Flight Brothe...

It’s The Old Testament Mixtape.  That’s right. Hosted by Charlton Heston. Genesis - El-P, Nas & Charlton Heston / The Garden - Cut Chemist / Adam & Eve - Qwel & Kip Killagain / The Garden - Son of a Bricklayer / Paradise Lost - Redshield (Of Oldominion) / Wrath of Kane - Big Daddy Kane / Noah - A.M. Bre...

The passing of Donald Byrd a couple weeks ago got me thinking a little more on jazz’s influence on hip-hop.  Robbie at Unkut came through with

Throwback to Cadillacs and the dawn of crack. Ill St Blues - Kool G Rap & DJ Polo / Reign of the Tec - The Beatnuts / One Shot, Two Shot - Ol’ Dirty Bastard (feat. Thirstin Howl the 3rd) / 6 In the Mornin’ (Bunky Mix) - Ice-T / Night Of The Living Baseheads - Public Enemy / Simply Dope, Part 2 - DJ Mark th...

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away. - Philip K. Dick Icarus Falling - PSY/OPSogist / All Day Breakfast - Jel / Numb - Blueprint / Temple of the Golden Pavilion (”Like Some Enormous Music”) [excerpt] - Philip Glass / Fendi Shoe Bomber (...

[above] R.A. The Rugged Man & Mac Lethal :: Crustified Christmas Every rappity-rap Christmas song ever from Egotrip: Naughty / Nice [below] Eazy-E :: Merry Motherfucking Christmas

So uh…the world was supposed to end today?  Probably didn’t? Man, that apocalyptic shit gets tired.  Most of y’all are probably too young to remember everybody freaking out that the world was...

[below] Too $hort’s Hanukah song.  Because…menorah beeeiiiiiiitch.  For real, I don’t know why this exists.

State of the Union Felt to me like 2012 was the year rappers got love for being real–not just being real, but being themselves, with a bigger variety of those selves than ever.  Danny Brown and his fucked-up hair.  Bronson and his combination cookbook/rhyme book.  Even Kitty Pryde with her redhead-from-Florida-who-works-at-Claire’s-Accessories-and-raps-about-boys.  Why’d everybody turn on Rap [...]

Hip hop this year was on some Love Boat shit.  Mad guest appearances.  So many of the best joints had features, this is Best of 2012 #3, the All Features Edition. Remember in the ’90s, when it was like a federal requirement your record had to say “(feat. Busta Rhymes)” on it somewhere?  (It had something to [...]