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  Hear Ill Bill's Boom-Bap Tribute to Exodus Singer Paul Baloff

  February 13, 2013 – After more than a decade in the game, fire-tongued Brooklyn cult rapper Ill Bill is returning with his most ambitious album to date, The Grimy Awards (due February 26 via his own Uncle Howie). "The album is me paying tribute to things that inspired me throughout my life," Bill says in a Toronto hotel room, shortly before a gig. …
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  Pete Rock Slams Lupe Fiasco for Crappy 'T.R.O.Y.' Bite

  May 22, 2012 – On Sunday night, Lupe Fiasco dropped "Around My Way (Freedom Isn't Free)" from his long-anticipated, improbably titled Food & Liquor 2: The Great American Rap Album. Any rap fan worth their salt should immediately recognize the saxophone riff and bass line lazily lifted from Tom Scott's "Today", as sampled in one of the most iconic rap songs in the history of time, Pete Rock and C.L. …
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  The Most Likely Living Superstars to Be Posthumously Exploited

  July 16, 2008 – Recently, SPIN.com ran an article in reaction to the snatching of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone, pondering which other deceased icons should be protecting their burial assets. …
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