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  Rap Release of the Week: Ammbush's 'Ammbaataa'

  April 9, 2013 – There's not much information out there on Oakland producer-rapper Ammbush. He has made beats for DaVinci ("Champion," "Quit Playin'") and Main Attrakionz ("Wings"), and his mixtape Ammbaataa, is out on SWTBRDS, one of many savvy labels aware that weirdo street-rap and all-over-the-place Internet hip-hop have become one. But that's all we've really got, and that's pretty refreshing. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Kanye West Bares His Soul, Shills for Smart Phone

  October 26, 2012 – <p>Houston-based music writer and "tank-top enthusiast" Shea Serrano (<a href="http://www.houstonpress.com/2012-08-02/music/blackie-houston-musician" target="_blank">read his excellent profile of No Trivia favorite B L A C K I E</a>) and Houston rap legend Bun B have teamed up for <a href="http://rapcoloringbook.tumblr.com/" target="blank">"Bun B's Jumbo …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Main Attrakionz's 'Bossalinis & Fooliyones'

  October 25, 2012 – Kendrick Lamar's good k.i.d. m.A.A.d. city is the best rap thing to come out this week. Hell, it's the best rap thing to out this year. You already know this. One unfortunate by-product of Kendrick-mania, though, is that Main Attrakionz's Bossalinis & Fooliyones, which certainly deserves some attention, has been overshadowed. So, it's my pick of the week. I'm sure I'll circle back around to good k.i.d. soon enough. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Brick Squad's Ice Burgandy Is in Love With His Wallet

  October 19, 2012 – <p>No Trivia Friday Five Reading List: Victor LaValle's <i>The Devil In Silver</i>. It's like Ken Kesey's <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest</i>, if you sent it through a de-hippie-dippie-fying machine. LaValle's novel tells the story of Pepper, who is wrongly sent to a psychiatric hospital and seemingly can't get out no matter how hard he tries to prove he's sane. …
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  Main Attrakionz, 'Bossalinis & Fooliyones' (Young One)

  October 15, 2012 – "If we could record every day, we would," the rapper Mondre M.A.N. told The Fader late last year. Since July 2011, he and his partner Squadda B have self-released 13 or so mixtapes through Bandcamp, both as solo artists and as the duo Main Attrakionz. They rap about the possibility of having fabulous, extroverted lives because it's part of their job description. But they would probably rather be holed up, high, and making more music. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Beanie Sigel Auditions to Star as Willie in 'ALF' Reboot

  August 31, 2012 – News flash: Clint Eastwood has always been a big jerk! He starred in some of the creepiest, most conservative movies ever made, too many of which involve him as a cop picking off or threatening minorities because some stuffy liberal has made it harder for him to do his job. …
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  Santigold, Big K.R.I.T., Best Coast Deep-Fry SPIN's Austin BBQ

  March 17, 2012 – After Escort finished their set on the main stage at Stubb's, the afternoon's host, comic DC Pierson, commended the 17-piece disco army on having the fewest number of laptops allowed onstageby Austin ordinance: one. …
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  Santigold, Best Coast, Big K.R.I.T. Set for SPIN's Austin Throwdown

  March 1, 2012 – SPIN is proud to announce the complete lineup of our 2012 party in Austin, set for Friday, March 16. Once again at the city's fingerlickingest venue, Stubb's BBQ, this year's bill features a who's who of SPIN faves, led by dub-poptronica superstar Santigold, who conveniently dropped a new video today. …
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  First Spin: Main Attrakionz's Collaborative EP 'cLOUDLIFE'

  February 28, 2012 – On cLOUDLIFE's opening track "Chap 3," Squadda B briefly croons Jim Jones' hook for Cam'ron's "The Dopeman," and the song's whole conceit is pretty much cribbed from Juelz Santana's endlessly quotable, OCD playa verse from "Hey Ma" (“Get in the car, don't touch nothing, sit in the car”). Presumably, this is the first time a Dipset tribute has been soundtracked by a beat from the Anticon collective, right? …
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  Hear Main Attrakionz Team Up With Danny Brown and G-Side

  December 8, 2011 – On "Suffocation," MondreMAN, one-half of the self-proclaimed "Greatest Duo Ever" — Oakland cloud rap weedheads Main Attrakionz — gets laced with a floating, hazy jam from producer Silky Johnson and thankfully shares it with his partner in rhymes Squadda B and Detroit drug aficionado Danny Brown. …
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