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  Meek Mill Abuses Notorious B.I.G.'s Legend to Defend Rick Ross 'Rape' Lyric

  April 10, 2013 – The Notorious B.I.G. died a little more than 16 years ago, and the pop culture that survived him still hasn't tired of picking his bones. …
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  Jeep's Twitter Hackers Shout Out Chief Keef, Drop N-Bomb

  February 19, 2013 – Only a day after Burger King's Twitter account was hacked by a person or group who claimed the fast food giant had been sold to McDonald's, Jeep's online avatar suffered an identical fate. Early Tuesday, the Chrysler-owned company Tweeted that it'd been bought by Cadillac, a brand belonging to General Motors. …
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  Meek Mill Returns With Introspective 'From Da Bottom'

  January 17, 2013 – Less than three months after Meek Mill unveiled his major label debut Dreams & Nightmares — the 15th best hip-hop album of 2012 according to us — the Philly rapper and Rick Ross protégé is on the verge of returning again with a new mixtape titled Dreamchasers 3, the third installment of his popular Maybach Music Group mixtape series. …
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  Jay-Z Verse Surfaces on Meek Mill's Rick Ross-Assisted 'Lay Up' Remix

  November 27, 2012 – It's no great leap from rap's NBA obsession to rap's sex obsession, though the latter, of course, is even more universally shared. In a coincidence, SPIN has looked recently at not only which NBA team's roster has the most shout-outs in rap songs, but also 40 NBA players and their pop-music alter egos. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Earl Sweatshirt Confronts the Culture of 'First!'

  November 2, 2012 – <p>This week's Friday Five is brought to you by Popeye's Chicken & Biscuits (or as they now call themselves, "Popeye's Louisiana Kitchen") who inexplicably offer free Wi-Fi. Not that I'm complaining. As someone who had to evacuate New Jersey because of the hurricane, and spent the rest of this week scrambling around for places to stay and wireless Internet to steal, it is much appreciated. …
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• Meek Mill, 'Dreams & Nightmares' (Maybach Music/Warner Bros.)

  November 1, 2012 – Meek Mill raps as if he is typing in all caps: "I'M BRINGING TUPAC BACK! TUPAC BACK!" He tends to, if not necessarily screech at the top of his lungs, then at least yell loud enough to project an appealing bellicosity. He's not the first MC with a high-octane delivery — the underrated Ace Hood comes to mind, as well as Freeway, another Philadelphia rapper. …
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  Meek Mill Lets His Rick Ross-Approved LP Speak for Itself

  October 24, 2012 – "Gangstas move in silence, nigga / and I don't talk a lot," spits Meek Mill midway through the title song on his Dreams and Nightmares album. As the Philadelphia-based arm of Rick Ross' expansive Maybach Music Group, sizable things are expected of Meek and his debut. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Trolling Rick Ross and Witch House AT THE SAME DAMN TIME

  October 5, 2012 – <p>There seems to be some confusion about Kendrick Lamar's <i>good kid m.A.A.d city</i>, even after the rapper's major-label debut went up to iTunes for pre-order, earlier this week. The track he did with Lady Gaga, "PARTYNAUSEOUS," was nowhere to be found on the iTunes tracklist, and that's a good thing. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: MF DOOM. Rap Game Howard Hughes?

  August 24, 2012 – ?uestlove of the Roots tweeted out this video of the late, great, J. Dilla last night. "Rare footage of #Dilla in Tdot," is all it said, with a link. The video is originally from 2003 and features footage of Dilla dropping his beats live in a club, and the kind of hagiography that's all but overwhelmed his reputation since his death in 2006. …
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  Hear Mariah Carey Floss With the Bawse on 'Triumphant (Get 'Em)'

  August 2, 2012 – Dropping "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" mid-Olympics is a clever bit of marketing genius, what with its inspirational message and Mariah Carey flossing her octaves all over the end like a dismounting gymnast tosses up her arms. But while she's been known to pop a rapper on a track whenever she needs a little career shake-up, we are a tad disappointed at the inclusion of Rick Ross and Meek Mill. …
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