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  Iamsu! Is the Laid-Back Life of the Party in 'Don't Stop' Video

  March 27, 2013 – Iamsu!'s KILT mixtape made the leap from one of the year's most slept-on rap releases to a top ranking in SPIN's Best Hip-Hip Albums of 2012. But the E-40 collaborator and prolific Bay Area resident sneaked out another before 2013 dawned: $uzy 6 $peed, which was every bit the equal of that other stunner. …
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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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  First Spin: Iamsu's 'Mobbin''

  October 25, 2012 – Did you check out Rework, that recent Philip Glass remix album that Beck put together? Yeah, me neither. Here's my stupid complaint with it: How do you tackle minimalism in 2012 and ignore the ambitiously simple sounds coming out West Coast rap? Shame on you Mr. Hansen and Mr. Glass for being less with-it than Wiz Khalifa, who reached out to producers like the Invasion and League of Starz for Cabin Fever 2. …
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  Wiz Khalifa's 'Cabin Fever 2': Could This Be the Death Knell for the Lex Luger Sound?

  October 17, 2012 – Last year, Wiz Khalifa prefaced his major-label debut, Rolling Papers, with Cabin Fever, a trap music-tinged mixtape that countered the more good-natured mainstream release. Cabin Fever 2, a ratchet-music facsimile, released yesterday, arrives less than two months before December's presumably more poppy O.N.F.I.C.. …
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  Rap's Most Slept-On Releases of 2012's Third Quarter

  October 10, 2012 – Some of my favorites from July, August, and September, like Styles P's brutal, hipster-baiting The Diamond Life Project, or 100s' evil pimp rap for the Tumblr generation Ice Cold Perm, and great stuff we've premiered (7evenThirty's Heaven's Computer, 8Ball's Life's Quest, Antwon's End Of Earth, and Labtekwon's HARDCORE: Labtekwon and the Righteous Indignation/Rootzilla vs Masta Akbar), all deserve to get some additional attention, but I …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Iamsu!'s 'Kilt'

  May 18, 2012 – LoveRance's "UP!” is currently number four on Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop chart, with a rather curious "featuring" credit: "LoveRance featuring Iamsu! & Skipper or 50 Cent." "UP!" was a minor hit last summer and began sneaking onto radio playlists in the fall. It seemed of a piece with Chris Brown's similarly spare "Strip.” Then, Tyga's "Rack City" arrived and brought with it a sudden, nationwide demand for minimalist hip-hop. …
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• Iamsu!, 'Kilt' (Self-released)

  May 14, 2012 – Scene-stealing rapper on E-40's "Function" slips Bay Area slaps some muscle relaxers, then jerks them back to sobriety. …
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