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  No Trivia's Friday Five: YG's For-The-Ladies Ratchet Raps

  January 25, 2013 – So, the XXL Freshman Voting thingy we're all supposed to care about is not something to actually care about. Vote for Riff Raff because he actually sort of deserves it. Vote for Riff Raff because this contrived rap Internet event is a joke and voting for Jody Highroller puts you on some "Writing in a pig for president" pseudo-subversive wave. …
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  Hear Future Get 'Real' With Drake and 'Wake Up' With Ciara

  January 14, 2013 – "I wanna do something else, to do it another way," Future told SPIN's Julianne Escobedo Shepherd in an interview posted today. Though he collaborates with other artists in a bevy of new tracks to emerge in recent days, the rapper and singer continues to inhabit a planet all his own. His strobe-synthed team-up with fellow rap-R&B sadsack hybrid Drake on "Fo Real" takes champagne-soaked melancholy into ever-stranger territory. …
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  'I'm Not Normal': Future on Hendrix, Rihanna, and Fashionable Flair

  January 14, 2013 – When Drake opened the door for rappers who sing as much as they rap, we couldn't have predicted Future, the shiny, trippy, groovy-ass dude whose gravely rasp captured radio's vulnerable heart with hits like "Turn on the Lights" and "Neva End," flipping hip-hop into a headspin in the process. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Young Scooter's 'Street Lottery'

  January 9, 2013 – Some rappers, who are content to turn their lives into superhero-gone-Tarantino tales of being down and out, then find success and enact hater retribution. And some rappers, it seems, couldn't pull off hip-hop tall tale-telling if their lives depended on it. Young Scooter, part of Auto-Tune diarist Future's Freebandz Entertainment is one of those can't-tell-a-lie guys. …
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  Lil Wayne 'Baked' Up Two New Collabos and One Dumb Tattoo

  January 2, 2013 – So that's Lil Wayne's new face tattoo — the one that says "BAKED" — consider yourself enlightened, thanks to LilWayneHQ. Despite our initial theories, the, ahem, loaded word is not a reference to Weezy's unusual courtroom performance last September. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Mystikal, Possessed by the Ghost of James Brown on 'Hit Me'

  December 7, 2012 – On Sunday, Das Racist officially broke up, and that's a bummer. The big Das Racist joke, it turns out, was that there was no joke. That rather than devolve into novelty MCs and pump out a bunch more “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell”-type songs and become what my friend Sean once called “the hipster LMFAO,” they took their shit very, very seriously. That was funnier than any of their punch lines. They went for it. …
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  Hear Chief Keef and Future Lament 'Dead Broke' Homies

  November 30, 2012 – Chief Keef and his young Chicago-bred buddies seems to live in a world where rap's only two modes are Gucci Mane's slurred-out ghettoisms and Soulja Boy's rhymes-optional freewheeling. It's hard not to get swept away by the sheer energy and seemingly mandated rise of the 17-year-old star, but it's also refreshing to hear his sound cut with the influence of another. …
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  Future Goes '3D': 'Kimmel' Gig With Kelly Rowland, Ciara Remix, and 'Jealous' Bonus

  November 28, 2012 – Future's SPIN Essential debut album, Pluto, received a deluxe-edition reissue yesterday as Pluto 3D, and the Atlanta rapper-singer is offering plenty of reasons to celebrate the occasion. He stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! …
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  Rihanna Unapologetically Puts Chris Brown on Her New Album

  November 6, 2012 – Rihanna named her upcoming seventh studio album Unapologetic, and is now doing her best to live up to its title. Surprise, world: the November LP will feature a cameo from Chris Brown! …
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  Pusha T Ties Trayvon Martin To 'The Wire' In Kanye-Produced 'Pain'

  October 9, 2012 – In Pusha T's new Future-featuring single, "Pain," the Clipse member stalks a menacing, minimal Kanye West beat while exploring the song's titular theme. In a particularly poignant moment, he references his crack-cooking past, then credits his illegal ambition with vaulting him past the status of anonymous prey. …
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