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January 16, 2013 – It's a little too easy to ramble on about the death of Dipset. Yes, their flamboyant assholism in the early 2000s now hinges on a bleary-eyed Cam'ron, a trend-chasing Jim Jones, and their avant-ridiculous ear for production carried on exclusively by Heatmakerz replacement AraabMuzik, who has slung his trebly street hiss over to the world of EDM, dubstep, and anywhere else that'll claim him.

January 11, 2013 – Pensado's Place is a public access-like nerd-out about the inside baseball ins and outs of engineering and mixing records. It's hosted by Dave Pensado, whose credits kind of speak for themselves, and who is probably best described as the Dude from The Big Lebowski meets Brian Wilson meets that nice older guy who bought you beer when you were underaged but also, like, gave you some Captain Beefheart records to check out, as well.

January 9, 2013 – Some rappers, who are content to turn their lives into superhero-gone-Tarantino tales of being down and out, then find success and enact hater retribution. And some rappers, it seems, couldn't pull off hip-hop tall tale-telling if their lives depended on it. Young Scooter, part of Auto-Tune diarist Future's Freebandz Entertainment is one of those can't-tell-a-lie guys.

January 8, 2013 – One of the most exciting songs on Chief Keef's Finally Rich is the bonus track "Citgo," a melodic mumbler with an absolutely gorgeous beat. It's like some missing link between the glitch-smack of trap and the stoner bliss of "cloud rap," or whatever the hip-hop in your Tumblr feed that makes you long for opiates is tagged these days. “Citgo” was produced by Young Ravisu, a Polish teenager discovered by Chief Keef via YouTube.

January 7, 2013 – Angel Haze vs. Azealia Banks began last Thursday when Banks tweeted, "Seriously, if you were not born and raised in NY.... DON'T CLAIM NY. YOU ARE NOT A NEW YORKER." Haze, who is not from New York, but recorded a breakout song over a sample of Gil Scott-Heron called "New York," responded with, "And you don't want this fade off Twitter. So knock it off.

January 7, 2013 – Consider this video a reminder that, hey, ST 2 Lettaz's R.E.B.E.L. mixtape from this past fall was pretty awesome! The first release from Slow Motion Sounds following G-Side's breakup, it looked back to 2008's Starshipz & Rocketz, with ST less focused on the Internet victories the group embraced, and then, seemingly, couldn't climb out from under.