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January 25, 2013 – This week, Nicki Minaj was bored and annoyed. On Wednesday, it manifested itself as grand gestures of frustration, and on Thursday, by a dead-eyed episode that ran only one merciful hour, instead of two.

January 24, 2013 – Right now, the worst song in the country is the biggest song in the country. Wouldn't be the first time, right?

January 23, 2013 – "It should be impossible to consider the Keefs and Flockas and Gunplays of the world completely outside of moralized critique." That's a quote from a ThinkProgress piece titled “White People and Hiphop (sic): Tourists, Expats, or Colonists?” Writer Alan Pyke's essay attempts to wrestle with this ongoing debate about whether or not Chief Keef should be allowed to rap about things.

January 23, 2013 – Harmony Korine's upcoming Spring Breakers stars James Franco as an eccentric hustler (with quite a few tics in common with pure-of-heart Internet absurdist Riff Raff), who links up with four high-school girls/bank robbers (played by Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine).

January 18, 2013 – If you're a rap fan who has ever had a hardrive crash, a laptop stolen, or just wasn't thinking straight and deleted a bunch of mid-to-late-2000s mixtapes because you thought they'd be available to download forever, then the Tumblr Diskography is a godsend. Whoever runs the Tumblr has been uploading entire mixtape discographies of rappers from Gucci Mane to the Cool Kids, with all the wonky tagging removed.

January 18, 2013 – Reality shows are great equalizers of taste. If you don't find a sitcom like Parks & Recreation funny, or a fancy drama like Homeland emotionally devastating, then there's not a lot that those shows can do for you. But reality television works differently. If you want to kick back and condescend and get your thrills that way, then you can.