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  YOLOL: Drake Warns Walgreens and Macy's to 'Chill' Over Sale of His Motto

  December 26, 2012 – "Walgreens...you gotta either chill or cut the cheque."Instagrammers following Drake's feed over the holiday (he shares photos under the nom de snap champagnepapi) saw the Toronto-born rapper commenting publicly on the YOLO phenenomenon as he witnessed it taking shape in a rack of ball caps at the drugstore chain, as Noisey reports. …
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  SPIN's Director of the Year Tom Scharpling on 2012's Buzziest Music Videos

  December 6, 2012 –  When Tom Scharpling isn't hosting the much-loved, free-form The Best Show on WFMU or interviewing the likes of Fucked Up's Damian Abraham for his Low Times podcast, he's directing charmingly low-key, ingeniously high-concept music videos. …
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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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  10 Records That Paved the Way for Kendrick Lamar's 'good kid, m.A.A.d city'

  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. …
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  First Spin: Hear Silkky Johnson's Psychedelic Rap LP 'Debauched Legend'

  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 …
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  Watch the Weeknd and Drake Sulk as They Enter 'The Zone'

  November 8, 2012 – Last summer, when the Weeknd was still a whispered-about PBR&B enigma, the Canadian singer-producer surprised fans with a Drake cameo on his second mixtape, Thursday. …
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  A$AP Rocky Raps About Girl 'Problem' With Drake, 2 Chainz, and Kendrick Lamar

  October 19, 2012 – UPDATE: The SoundCloud upload shared by Drake's blog no longer works, so we've embedded a YouTube version instead. …
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  We're No. 1! U.S. Tops Illegal Downloads List, Drake Is Most Pirated Artist

  September 17, 2012 – Pound your chest in pride, 'Muricans! The U.S. has topped the list of the 20 most prolific file-sharing countries, with 96.6 million illegal downloads moved via peer-to-peer client BitTorrent in the first half of 2012, according to a report by music trend aggregator Musicmetric and published by the BBC. …
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  Frank Ocean, Miguel, and Holy Other Usher in PBR&B 2.0

  August 22, 2012 – Something happened last year to R&B, something more radical than most of us realized. …
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  Nightclub Wants Chris Brown and Drake to Pay Up $16 Million

  August 15, 2012 – When Drake and Chris Brown and their respective entourages got into an infamous brawl at a New York nightclub in June, the dispute allegedly began when someone threw a bottle. At least five bystanders were injured, as well as Breezy, though Drake seemed to come out unscathed. …
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