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  Jeremih Remixes 'Karate Chop,' Forgets Lil Wayne's Emmett Till Gaffe

  May 17, 2013 – Chicago singer/producer Jeremih knows an impactful song when he hears one, but he may not know the entire reason for its impact. …
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  Ciara Showcases Her EDM Side on Trunk-Rattling New Self-Titled Album

  April 25, 2013 – On Tuesday afternoon, a dozen music writers and various industry folk ended up in a third-floor studio in New York's East Village to hear Ciara's forthcoming self-titled album, which won't be released until July 9. The very early listen may have something to do with Ciara's trial-and-error roll-out. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: De La Soul Get Cranky Gracefully

  April 25, 2013 – De La Soul "Get Away (feat. the Spirit of the Wu)"De La Soul's brand new, totally oldhead track, "Get Away," samples the Wu Tang Forever skit "Intro" (the imminently quotable one that kicks off disc two and hypes up "Triumph") and proceeds to tell listeners what they are already know: Hip-hop sucks right now. At least, that's what you already know if you're checking for a new De La track in 2013, right? …
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  Watch Ciara and IRL Boyfriend Future Meet Cute in 'Body Party' Video

  April 23, 2013 – Ciara's "Body Party" packs more mythology than your average music video. With the new clip, the Atlanta singer depicts her first meeting with fellow ATL sing-rap superstar Future, who wrote "Body Party" and is her IRL boyfriend. The two meet in adorably teenage fashion — at a house party, where Ciara and her friend notice Future spying them as they dance. …
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  Future Associate OG Double D Mourned as Maybach Shooting Victim Still Unconfirmed

  April 12, 2013 – A man was shot and killed in his Mercedes Maybach luxury car yesterday during rush hour in Atlanta. "It sounded like a bazooka," an unidentified witness told Atlanta's WSBTV. …
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  World's Biggest Killjoy Sues Universal Over Adam Levine's Alleged Weed Habit

  April 10, 2013 – This just in: Musicians smoke marijuana while working in the studio. This shocking revelation has come to light thanks to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday (April 9) in Los Angeles Superior Court. The legal document alleges that Universal Music Group's office complex in Santa Monica is a hotbed of unsavory characters getting high on weed. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Future Breaks Up, Moans Quirkily

  March 28, 2013 – This week, we've got some emotions (Future bemoaning the end of a relationship, Shady Blaze mourning the loss of his child) and a whole lot of questionable taste (raps over TV-show theme songs and yacht rock, Lil Wayne riding a wannabe movie-musical piano epic).Fiend, feat. …
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  Future Professes 'No Love' on Secretly Heartbroken New Song

  March 26, 2013 – As noted in our Real Hottest MCs in the Game list, Future has "shoved hip-hop into the eye of a storm of melodramatic love and longing." As unlikely as it seems, even when the Atlanta Auto-Tuner sing-raps about how he's "never made love," what's meant to be a stubbornly masochistic boast winds up sounding like a heartbroken admission of one guy's inability to truly connect with his in-bed sparring partners. …
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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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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Master P's Louie V Mob is Fantasy League Rap Come to Life

  February 22, 2013 – Did you watch Life Is But a Dream, the Beyoncé documentary? Of course you did. Well, there's an interesting sequence of events in which  Beyoncé, who is so famous that she's supposed to start pushing that whole self-made myth, instead addresses the still-ridiculous reality that women make less money than men. Obviously, that affords men way more resources and ways to control how women are presented. …
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