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  Antwon Riffs on Martin Lawrence, Danzig, and Sex Marathons

  April 22, 2013 – The electrifyingly eclectic Antwon is a pop culture obsessive whose grab-bag interests — from thrash metal to avant-garde film to Fox sitcoms — are well suited to his alternately raw and sensitive avant-rap. …
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  Watch Juiceboxxx's 'Pump It (Remix)' Video Featuring Antwon, Kool A.D., More

  April 18, 2013 – Juiceboxxx's "Pump It Remix" is an Internet-rap posse-cut event. Antwon compares himself to Congolese baller Dikembe Mutombo and eventually rhymes the finger-wagging NBA center's name with um, "butthole"; Kool A.D delivers one of his deceptively brilliant,  half-assed, super-tight raps (see also, the recent "Hood Party" cut from Fat Tony). …
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  Watch Antwon's Puppet-Enriched '3rd World Grrl' Video

  February 20, 2013 – The music of Antwon — whose new mixtape, In Dark Denim (Greedhead), was named SPIN's Rap Release of the Week — rides on a lighthearted hedonism, which makes the video for "3rd World Grrl" acutely appropriate. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Antwon's 'In Dark Denim'

  February 20, 2013 – Where'd all the good Internet rap go? Rappers of all stripes from all over the map, meeting on Mediafire, felt so necessary a year or two ago. Now, that scene has congealed into an endless loop of RSS-feeding “collabos,” irksome nostalgia trips, and PR firms and quasi-labels shoving all the interesting, engaging personalities who don't play the game to the side. …
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  Download Antwon's Bleak and Tantalizing 'In Dark Denim' Mixtape

  February 15, 2013 – There's a reason why San Jose rapper Antwon is among SPIN's Best New Artists for February and that reason has arrived. …
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  5 Best New Artists for February '13

  February 1, 2013 – From a New York noise maven to a dream-weaving, Nashville-based guitar virtuoso to an intrepid South Bay rapper, here are five artists you should know. DAVID BEVAN, PHILIP SHERBURNE, and BRANDON SODERBERG …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Frank Ocean, Andre 3000, and Big Boi Channel P-Funk

  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. …
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  Rap's Most Slept-On Releases of 2012's Fourth Quarter

  December 12, 2012 – Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a little early to do this. But we're well into the non-stop whirl of year-end proceedings (check out SPIN's 40 Hip-Hop Albums of the Year if you haven't already), so all bets are off on critical appropriate-ness, I think. …
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  First Spin: Antwon Slow Jams The Apocalypse On New Album, 'End Of Earth'

  July 31, 2012 – Last year, Antwon released the Fantasy Beds mixtape (featuring breakout track "Helicopter" and production from Clams Casino, Javelin, Salem), plus the album My Westside Horizon, a lo-fi, Quiet Storm-informed affair, produced entirely by his buddy, Bad Slorp (who has since changed his name to DJ Sex Play). …
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  Video Premiere: Antwon's 'Living Every Dream'

  July 26, 2012 – Back In March, Antwon teamed up with director Brandon Tauszik for "Helicopter." Seamlessly mixing the stalwart, dudes-hanging-out-and-drinking-40s formula, with footage from the Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, and a hilarious scene of the San Jose rapper pouring hot sauce all over his waffles, I called it an "early candidate for video of the year." And it still is, right up there with M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls," whose budget was undoubtedly hund …
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