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December 6, 2012 – Who runs New York? Jay-Z? At this point, "Empire State of Mind" and a mostly symbolic share of the Nets aside, he's too big for his hometown. 50 Cent? Are you transmitting your answer from 2004? Also, nine words: 50 Cent featuring Adam Levine and Eminem, "My Life." Action Bronson and crew?

November 21, 2012 – Switching it up this week (with three extra songs since I missed last week's Friday Five) due to Thanksgiving on Thursday. Of course, Friday is still Friday if you work any kind of service job where your day will be filled with dread as everyone still stuffed with turkey pigs out on purchasing drastically marked-down Blu-Rays and widescreen TVs.

November 20, 2012 – Can we Wiki together a timeline that breaks down just how much hip-hop culture is derived from, or at the very least, was heavily influenced by gay culture? How Tupac Shakur grew up in house music-obsessed Baltimore (hometown of queer-cinema godfather John Waters and transgender DJ/vocalist Miss Tony), attended a performing arts high school, sported the most perfectly plucked eyebrows on a man ever, and rocked a banjee realness style?

November 14, 2012 – <p>Yesterday, Memphis rapper <a href="http://citiesaviv.tumblr.com/post/35628107400" target="_blank">Cities Aviv posted a self-serious note</a> about his new album <i>Black Pleasure</i>.

November 14, 2012 – <p>The mythos of the creative struggle adds another layer to a pop-music classic: Brian Wilson in the sandbox; the Stones arguing over everything holed up in a chateau; Bowie coked-out in Berlin; Rick Rubin making rap history from his NYU dorm; Dilla, dying in a hospital bed. The story behind Kendrick Lamar's <i>good kid, m.A.A.D.

November 13, 2012 – After last year's Hater of the Year, a collection of Silkky Johnson's instrumentals for Main Attrakionz, Western Tink, and others, the producer set out to "make a project that's more fun to listen to than a traditional beat tape." The result is Debauched Legend, which he describes as "a psychedelic rap album," a purposeful hip-hop oddity: "I wanted it to sound like something you might find in a bargain bin and have no idea when it's fro