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  Lil Wayne Will Be at SXSW '12, So Bring Your Skateboard

  March 9, 2012 – And the rappers keep rolling out: Following similar announcements from Jay-Z and 50 Cent, Lil Wayne has announced that he, too, will be gracing the fine folk in Austin, Texas, next week via Mountain Dew, with whom he just signed a massive branding deal. Weezy will be going south to make myriad announcements about the campaign, DEWeezy, which includes the forthcoming construction of a skate park in New Orleans. …
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  Surprise! Taylor Swift Tops Money Makers List, Beats U2

  March 9, 2012 – Sometimes it's nice to think about professional musicians as dedicated artistes regaling us with their melodies for the sheer joy of musical performance. Then the illusion-crushing annual Billboard Money Makers list drops and fans everywhere get to see how filthy rich even the most adorable of their favorite artists really are. …
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  Chromeo Cop Kanye's Work Ethic for 'Expansive' Album

  February 29, 2012 – Even though Chromeo is deep into work on their fourth album, the reality of putting new dance-funk jams into the world is only just now starting to sink in for the Montreal duo. "This is the first interview I've done to talk about new music," says guitarist-vocalist Dave 1. "The album hardly even feels real yet. We just got off the road two months ago. …
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  Hear Kanye West Warble About an Ex in Long, Live Auto-Tune Riff

  February 22, 2012 – Auto-Tune has its uses! You know that thing where singer-songwriters make up extra, occasionally goofy lyrics for their songs in concert, so you know just how effortlessly they compose their sensitive, sensitive singer-songwriter songs? And how sometimes those ad libs are about phone calls, or ex-girlfriends, or maybe texting? …
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  Kanye West and Odd Future Want You to Look at Them Now

  February 14, 2012 – Kanye West and Odd Future might be at different points in the road, but they're taking similar paths. Whatever else you could say about them — and a lot has already been said — both are willfully provocative hip-hop acts who've won over crucial portions of the pop, hip-hop, and indie-rock audiences through their constant innovation and unexpected moments of emotional vulnerability. …
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  Adele, Foo Fighters Dominate 2012 Grammy Awards

  February 13, 2012 – The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are undoubtedly going to be remembered as an emotionally charged moment in our cultural history. …
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  Foo Fighters, Skrillex, Kanye West Take Early Grammy Lead

  February 12, 2012 – Update: Read our full-show recap and our live blog. Somewhere in the world — specifically, Los Angeles — for a very uncomfortable group of people, the Grammy Awards ceremony spans six hours. Literally. The pre-telecast awards ceremony began at 5 p.m. …
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  Watch Jay-Z and Kanye West's Live 'Paris' Video 11 Times At Your Peril

  February 9, 2012 – No wonder Kanye West and Jay-Z were performing "Niggas in Paris" so many times in a row on their Watch the Throne tour. The hip-hop duo's Will Ferrell-sampling banger now has a video, directed by West himself, that combines live performance footage with very fancy after effects. …
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  Kanye West's Late-Night Tweet-a-Thon, By the Numbers

  January 5, 2012 – Were you one of Kanye West's 5.8 million followers who watched 'Ye get mad real on Twitter last night while ostensibly announcing his new fashion venture, Donda, named after his late mother? SPIN has helpfully posted the full transcript of his tweetsplosion (on page 2) and done a little number crunching for you: Time tweeting commenced: 10:23 p.m. ET Time tweeting ended: 1:23 a.m. …
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  Q&A: 'Free Ride' Author Rob Levine on Why 'Free' Downloading Is Actually Costly

  December 19, 2011 – Sometimes sampling is theft. Downloads are turning the internet into a Walmart. Google is no better than a record label. Torrents are killing culture. …
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