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  Hip-Hop at the Grammys: The Perils of Doin' It for the Culture

  February 11, 2013 – As is always the case with rap music and the Grammys, nearly all of the rap-related awards were given out during the pre-show ceremony. Jay-Z and Kanye West's "Niggas In Paris" won both Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. Meanwhile, Best Rap Album, which you think they could've crammed somewhere in between every single televised country award, went to Drake's Take Care. …
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  Grammys 2013: Who Should Win the Categories You Actually Care About

  February 8, 2013 – The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are almost upon us! Hey, we'd love to help you with your office pools and living-room side bets with some sure-thing, Vegas-ready odds. However, we always seem to be dead wrong about this stuff (we'll get you yet, Esperanza Spalding). …
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  Madonna's Nipple-Flashing, Gun-Waving MDNA World Tour Cashes In

  December 14, 2012 – Madonna's massive, controversy-skirting MDNA tour has paid off: the Material Girl raked in $228 million from the live shows, making her muscular jaunt around the world the year's highest grossing tour, Billboard reports. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band were a somewhat distant second, claiming a total of $199 million after playing to a little more than two million people. …
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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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  D'Angelo Returns to TV, Throne Dominate at 2012 BET Awards

  July 2, 2012 – Last night's three-and-a-half hour BET Awards marathon was evenly divided between honoring the past and promoting the future. The ceremony, held at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, was bookended with performances spotlighting what's happening in the hip-hop world right now — opening with Kanye West's G.O.O.D. …
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  Jay-Z and Kanye West Do 'Paris' in Paris, World Collapses on Itself

  June 4, 2012 – For a brief second last week, Jay-Z had everyone convinced that he and Kanye West's first joint show in Paris might feature nothing but "Niggas in Paris." Ludicrous? Sure. Conceivable? Yup. The duo were doing the song 10 times in a row by the time they wrapped their U.S. tour and are both prone to doing ridiculous things for the sake of doing ridiculous things. …
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