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  MTV T.R.U. Life: The REAL 10 Hottest MCs in the Game

  March 5, 2013 – MTV has been steady picking rap's 10 hottest MCs since 2007 and, when it comes to the completely arbitrary metric of hottest-ness, they're usually more right than wrong. But their criteria are slanted towards the academic and traditional, giving too much weight to too-big-to-fail popularity (ruh!) and propping up the platinum establishment. …
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  2 Chainz Kindly Poses for Photo With Cops Who Arrested Him

  February 15, 2013 – Around 11 hours ago, 2 Chainz' Twitter account started lighting up with frustrated missives. The reason? …
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  See 2 Chainz Create Corporate Synergy in Unfunny '2 Broke Girls' TV Guest Spot

  February 12, 2013 – Last week, Slate's David Weigel wrote an article cleverly titled, "The Only Time Anyone Should Have to Care About 2 Broke Girls." The subject was a tweet from a U.S. congressman's account reacting, erm, hornily to the CBS sitcom's pole-dancing-themed Super Bowl commercial. Now comes a second time non-viewers of the show will have to care about it, but luckily it doesn't last long and isn't particularly significant.Don't blame 2 Chainz. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Big Categories

  February 7, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding!). …
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  2 Chainz' Latest Guest Spots: Hit-Boy's 'Fan (Remix)' ... and CBS Sitcom '2 Broke Girls'

  January 23, 2013 – Tity Boi has hooked up with Hit-Boy. Wait, no. Make that: 2 Chainz will adorn 2 Broke Girls.Actually, both are correct. The Based on a T.R.U. Story rapper, who used to go by that other pun-friendly name as half of Atlanta duo Playaz Circle, guests on a new remix of "Fan," a smitten club-rap song from the "Niggas in Paris" producer's free 2012 HITstory mixtape (via Rap-Up). …
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  Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz Celebrate Being 'Rich as Fuck' By Rapping Without a Beat

  January 3, 2013 – Lil Wayne has been collaborating with just about everyone the past few days. 2 Chainz has been collaborating with just about everyone for at least the past year. Including Wayne himself, much to his own avowed embarrassment, in the box-of-rocks-dumb hook to 2 Chainz' Based on a T.R.U. …
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  See 2 Chainz' French Bulldog-Fortified 'I'm Different' Video

  December 26, 2012 – As documented in our exhaustive, three-minute video supercut of his every on-tape name drop this year alone, 2 Chainz has made a bulletproof case for himself as the game's most furious and prolific features rapper. But 2012 also yielded Based on a T.R.U. Story, his debut studio full-length and an album that places the Georgia native's knack for absurd wordplay in the limelight. …
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  2 Chainz Subtly Proves 'I'm Different' in No-Nonsense 'Kimmel' Performance

  December 18, 2012 – It's not always easy to get a clear view of 2 Chainz during his appearance last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. The studio audience has too many hands waving in the air. The recently ubiquitous Atlanta rapper performed "I'm Different," which SPIN's Nick Murray, in a review of the former Tity Boi's freshly gold-certified 2012 album Based on a T.R.U. …
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  A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and 2 Chainz Dish in 'Fuckin' Problems' Video

  December 4, 2012 – Back in October, we shared a heater of a club-destined collab: A$AP Rocky, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and 2 Chainz trading lines about their shared love for "bad bitches" and, um, love-making, which is as it turns out are their titular "Fuckin' Problems." At last, there's a video for the bawdy song, which presumably hails from A$AP's frequently postponed major label debut, LONGLIVEA$AP, now set for a January 15 release. …
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  Watch the History of Video Games, Soundtracked by the Rap Songs That Sample Them

  November 29, 2012 – We're sure you remember our Kotaku-approved list of 50 rap songs that sample video games. If not, it basically traced rap's love affair with the joystick from Sugar Hill Records alumni chilling at the ice arcade to Lil B expressing his love for you over Final Fantasy X. …
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