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July 24, 2012 – 2 Chainz is nowhere near as impressive as Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane were at their ubiquitous heights, but what he shares with those hyper-prolific oddball street MCs is an inability to translate their goofy, mixtape power to the radio. On "No Lie" and now, "The Birthday Song" (featuring Kanye West), the first two singles from Based on a TRU Story ("Riot," started out as a mixtape track), 2 Chainz swings and misses.

July 20, 2012 – Whenever a new and underwhelming song from or featuring Dr. Dre appears and it hurts to hear, just close your eyes, drown out his goofy-ass ghostwritten grunts, and imagine an alternate rap history for the once legendary, now totally coasting producer.

July 18, 2012 – Life's Quest, the new album from pimp-rap legend 8ball is the kind of rap record I was blabbing about a couple week ago in regards Too $hort's No Trespassing: Don't let these well-crafted, worker-bee rap releases from legacy artists sneak by, unheard!

July 17, 2012 – Azealia Banks is embattled, and I love it.

July 14, 2012 – Was it a coincidence that the original Frank Ocean, Cody Chesnutt, unveiled the Kickstarter for Landing On A Hundred, his full-length follow-up to 2002's The Headphone Masterpiece, the day after Channel Orange arrived on iTunes? Probably not. Actually, it was totally a coincidence. There's like, no way it wasn't. And I'm mostly just being a jerk about the "original Frank Ocean" dig, but hey, go give Cody Chesnutt some of your dough.

July 13, 2012 – On Monday Courthouse News Service revealed that DITC producer/rapper Lord Finesse is suing annoying frat rapper Mac Miller, Miller's label Rostrum Records, and mixtape hub DatPiff, over the unauthorized use of his "Hip 2 Da Game," which serves as the instrumental for Miller's breakout track "Kool-Aid & Frozen Pizza." The 2010 song was given away as a free download on the mixtape Kickin' Incredible Dope Shit and never sold, so there are