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  Homeboy Sandman, 'Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent' (Stones Throw)

  May 15, 2013 – Last month, Hot 97 morning-show host, notoriously aggressive "real hip-hop" defender, and professional Nicki Minaj antagonizer Peter Rosenberg released the pointedly titled free mixtape New York Renaissance. …
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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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  Preview Homeboy Sandman's Golden Age Tribute 'Kool Herc: Fertile Crescent'

  April 16, 2013 – Queens-raised MC Homeboy Sandman is a prolific and prodigiously talented wordsmith who scored one of SPIN's 40 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 — with an EP, no less. …
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  Hear Peter Rosenberg's 'New York Renaissance' Mixtape, a Snapshot of a Scene in Flux

  April 4, 2013 – Forget your freshmen lists and cool it with the hottest MCs (well, unless you're looking at SPIN's picks) — Hot 97's Peter Rosenberg has dropped his The New York Renaissance mixtape and it's jam-packed with bubbling East Coast talent. The terribly named but mightily talented Joey Bada$$ kicks things off with a Harry Fraud-produced ivory-tickler. …
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  Homeboy Sandman's Mellow Single 'The Plot Thickens' Will Melt Your Mind

  March 5, 2013 – Homeboy Sandman was among last year's most unfortunately overlooked. The East Coast-bred Stones Throw signee released a slate of songs last year — via the Chimera EP and the First of a Living Breed LP — which ably demonstrated his wordy yet inviting microphone mastery, not to mention his knack for choosing warmly experimental beats. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Lil Wayne Ain't Crazy, He Just Thinks Our Justice System Is Nuts

  September 29, 2012 – <p>That <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/lil-wayne-court-amnesia-threaten-lawyer-qui... of Lil Wayne's deposition</a> getting lots of LOLs isn't evidence that he's lost his marbles. It's proof of the American legal system's absurdity, and that Wayne is painfully aware of this fact. …
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  Rap's Most Slept-On Releases of 2012's Second Quarter

  July 5, 2012 – There is an Internet niche for everything, so who even knows what "slept-on" means anymore. …
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  Rap's Best of 2012, So Far

  February 28, 2012 – January and February were light on event records. Rick Ross' overrated Rich Forever seemed to demand we take it seriously simply because it's stuffed with starpower and executes its gangsta-rap cliches adroitly — and that just isn't enough. …
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  First Spin: Get Stones Throw Rhymer Homeboy Sandman's 'The Miracle'

  January 23, 2012 – Demented New York rhymetwister Homeboy Sandman is the latest signing to the Stones Throw roster, an perfectly slow-flowing East Coast version of their woozy, blunted, sun-damaged 15-year legacy. The cover of the Subject:Matter EP (due tomorrow) boasts "6 rap songs dealing with content no one has ever rapped about before in the history of rap music. …
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