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  Kendrick Lamar Will Collaborate With Anyone, Including Chris Brown

  March 26, 2013 – To be sure, Kendrick Lamar is not your average everyday rap savior. The Compton star rose predictably fast following the release of his instant classic, good kid, m.A.A.D. city, one of SPIN's Best Albums of 2012 and our reigning Best Hip-Hop Album to boot. Today, he's the Hottest MC in the Game, so it should come as no surprise that the guy is in demand. …
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  Machine Gun Kelly's Scandalous Tour Tales

  October 10, 2012 – "Eight to 12 months ago you put me in a bubble category," was the first thing out of Ohio motormouth MC Machine Gun Kelly's mouth when he visited SPIN's Manhattan offices recently. "A fucking bubble chart and it said, 'Artists You Should Care About, But You Really Don't Have To.'" Which is true, we definitely did that, but MGK wasn't mad. "Thanks to whoever put me in that bubble," he says. …
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  Watch 50 Cent's Security Jump Gunplay at BET Hip Hop Awards

  October 3, 2012 – Sunday's BET Hip Hop Awards were a mess for members of Rick Ross' Maybach Music Group crew. Two separate altercations led to a series of conflicting reports involving thrown punches, pepper spray and alleged arrests. Once the dust settled, it became (mostly clear) that the initial incident backstage at the Atlanta Civic Center was between Rick Ross and Young Jeezy. …
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  50 Cent Expresses Doubt Over Chris Lighty's Suicide

  September 17, 2012 – In a recent interview with Hot 97 (MTV), 50 Cent has echoed the sentiments of many artists and executives who knew beloved hip-hop manager Chris Lighty and expressed doubt over the nature of his death and rumored money problems. Lighty was Fiddy's close friend and manager "since the actual mixtape run," (so, before 2003's Get Rich Or Die Tryin') and up until his alleged suicide last month. …
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  Bring It On: 8 Essential Teen-Pop Soundtracks

  August 8, 2012 – "What do you do with a soundtrack?" James Hunter wondered 27 years ago in "Start Making Sense," a Village Voice roundup. "You listen to it — it might also be a record." One of the most comprehensive surveys of its kind ever published, Hunter's piece tallied scores of movie soundtracks that were indeed records, but none of their track lists seemed specifically aimed at a tween audience. …
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  Can We Stop Pretending We Care About 50 Cent?

  July 12, 2012 – The history of hip-hop is predicated upon someone doing something that somebody else told them they weren't allowed to do. At the beginning, it was idyllic mythmaking stuff like turning a turntable into a musical instrument and scratching the damn records. Then, it's N.W.A and other rappers deciding that violent lyrics no longer have to be a metonym for mad skills and can mean actually murdering people. …
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• 50 Cent, '5 (Murder by Numbers)' (Self-Released)

  July 11, 2012 – The world is now blessed with two 50 Cents. There's the Curtis Jackson who likes to talk about the money he's made from his business ventures, flirts with the ladies on The View, and tweets about his day-to-day life like he's following the script of some rapper-turned-suburban-dad sitcom. …
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  Grab 50 Cent's Free 10-Track Album '5 (Murder By Numbers)'

  July 6, 2012 – 50 Cent turns 37 today, and to celebrate, the G-Unit leader has shared a free 10-track set. On Twitter this week, 50 billed 5 (Murder By Numbers) as an "appetizer" for next "official" album Street King Immortal, which he said will be out in November. …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of the Year So Far

  July 5, 2012 – Ubiquitous major-label last great hope 2 Chainz makes four appearances on this list. None of those appearances are on any of his own songs, though he is a nice addition to each and everyone of them, particularly "Beez In The Trap," where he mentions Nicki Minaj's "doo-hickey." But this is just the story of major-label rap music this year: A whole lot of nothing you didn't ask for, to get to that something you actually want to hear. …
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  50 Cent's 'Complicated' Video Overshadowed by Real-Life Car Accident

  June 26, 2012 – 50 Cent may be getting richer and richer, but he isn't investing much cash in his latest video, the ironically simple clip for The Lost Tape's "Complicated." He's pretty content chilling on the couch, trying on a few of his many fitted hats and getting ready to go out the way only Fiddy could — by downing one of his own branded energy shots, considering his baseball bat, and busting his bulletproof vest out of the wall (via Rap Ra …
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