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  Kanye West Disappoints Kardashian-Weary Nation

  August 7, 2012 – Rather than let the world simply speculate through gritted teeth that his new track "Perfect Bitch" is about girlfriend Kim Kardashian, Kanye West tweeted to kill off the doubt this afternoon: "I wrote the song Perfect Bitch about Kim." Point taken! …
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  Check Out Kanye West's Artsy Nude 'Cruel Summer' LP Cover

  August 2, 2012 – Cruel Summer, the collaborative album from Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music collective, has been so frequently postponed — from Spring 2012 to August 7 to now September 4 — that the LP should just be dubbed Cruel Indian Summer to better reflect the season it's being released in. …
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  The Problem With Hip-Hop in 2012: Not Enough Street Rap!

  July 24, 2012 – If you've been reading the latest in the endless cycle of complaints about rap music's pernicious influence — Google's colossal waste of time, "Hip-Hop On Trial," from last month; or Touré's Washington Post editorial, "How America and Hip-Hop Failed Each Other," from earlier this month — you would think it was still the late '90s, when shiny, amoral street rap reigned supreme. …
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  2 Chainz and Kanye Get Dumb on 'Birthday Song'

  July 24, 2012 – 2 Chainz is nowhere near as impressive as Lil Wayne or Gucci Mane were at their ubiquitous heights, but what he shares with those hyper-prolific oddball street MCs is an inability to translate their goofy, mixtape power to the radio. On "No Lie" and now, "The Birthday Song" (featuring Kanye West), the first two singles from Based on a TRU Story ("Riot," started out as a mixtape track), 2 Chainz swings and misses. …
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  Hear Kanye West and 2 Chainz's Ode to Bday Booty Calls, 'Birthday Song'

  July 23, 2012 – Back in April, rising Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz told MTV that his upcoming LP debut, Based on a T.R.U. Story, would be filled with "concepts, things you can think about ... …
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  See Kanye West's 'New God Flow' Mashed Up With Comic 'New Gods'

  July 13, 2012 – Earlier this month, Kanye West and Pusha T unleashed their intense new G.O.O.D. Music collaboration "New God Flow." Possibly overlooked in the generally positive reaction to the track was the title's similarity to New Gods, a comic by comics legend Jack Kirby. No longer! …
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  Frank Ocean Hasn't Touched a Copy of 'Channel Orange' Yet

  July 13, 2012 – A lot of people have been talking about Frank Ocean this week, but aside from the occasional tweet or errant Tumblr post, Ocean hasn't done a whole lot of yapping since his confessional coming-out blog post and channelORANGE release. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Has Gunplay Gone Pitbull?

  July 6, 2012 – Heads up to anybody who was entertained by my interview a few months back with underground comics dude and Lil B cover artist Benjamin Marra. His latest comic book, Lincoln Washington: Free Man, is now available to purchase, via Traditional Comics. Like Marra's Gangsta Rap Posse, it's a pulpy, often absurd satire in the guise of a revenge tale that's not for the squeamish or easily offended. …
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  No Trivia's Top 50 (Mostly Rap) Songs of the Year So Far

  July 5, 2012 – Ubiquitous major-label last great hope 2 Chainz makes four appearances on this list. None of those appearances are on any of his own songs, though he is a nice addition to each and everyone of them, particularly "Beez In The Trap," where he mentions Nicki Minaj's "doo-hickey." But this is just the story of major-label rap music this year: A whole lot of nothing you didn't ask for, to get to that something you actually want to hear. …
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  Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Join Birdman and Rick Ross' 'Born Stunna (Remix)'

  July 3, 2012 – Just as Kanye West and Pusha T are basking in the adulation for their new G.O.O.D. Music cut "New God Flow," their rivals over at Young Money and Cash Money Records have unleashed a star-studded track of their own, via IllRoots. Sure, nobody was exactly clamoring for a fully loaded version of "Born Stunna," Cash Money boss Birdman's grunging money-cars club-rap boast with Florida hip-hop action hero Rick Ross. …
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