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  Rap Release of the Week: DJ Mustard's 'Ketchup'

  June 11, 2013 – DJ Mustard is best known for producing two radio-rap hits that stand out because of their considered use of just a few sounds and their animal brain-appealing, to-the-point minimalism: Tyga's "Rack City" and 2 Chainz's "I'm Different." Many of the songs on Ketchup, the compilation mixtape from Mustard, nod to those hits (the polite piano "I'm Different" is all over these tracks, as is the ominous gurgle of "Rack City"), though …
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  Major Lazer Blow Up Butts in Absurdist 'Bubble Butt' Video

  May 28, 2013 – "Bubble Butt" (SPIN's 40th Best Song of the Year so far) is the secret gem of Major Lazer's Free the Universe — a flagrantly fun and ridiculous track with the year's catchiest chorus you don't want to be caught singing in public. …
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  Tyga, 'Hotel California' (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic)

  April 12, 2013 – If you go to Safeway, a supermarket chain based in California, you can buy an off-brand soda called "Dr. Skipper." It's probably the third-best Dr. Pepper rip-off, after Mr. Pibb and Dr. Shasta. Tyga's Hotel California is the rap equivalent of buying a 12-pack of Dr. Skipper and using it in lieu of champagne at the strip club lunchtime buffet.Tyga is Y.G. for people who floss after every meal. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Dirty Money Lives On!

  April 10, 2013 – Nice to see Kalenna, the other member of Diddy's Dirty Money project showing up on a radio-ready song with Rich Boy (who also hasn't really gotten the second chance he deserves). And Dawn Richard returns the major-label cast-off favor by spotlighting Eve! Meanwhile, Tyga panders, James Blake gets in over his head with the RZA, and a should-be-buzzing producer, Tony Gardner, puts himself in front of the mic.Dawn Richard, feat. …
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  Tyga Wood: Young Money MC Gets Into Porn Biz With 'Rack City XXX'

  September 11, 2012 – At 22, Young Money rapper Tyga would fall into the "barely legal" category, but that's not stopping the heavily tatted Compton native from starting his own porn site named after his biggest hit. …
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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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  Rap's Best of 2012, So Far

  February 28, 2012 – January and February were light on event records. Rick Ross' overrated Rich Forever seemed to demand we take it seriously simply because it's stuffed with starpower and executes its gangsta-rap cliches adroitly — and that just isn't enough. …
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  Why Tyga's 'Careless World' Might Not Debut Top 10

  February 24, 2012 – Though Tyga's acronymous name (Thank You God Always) might've won a bit of his affection, we're betting Martin Luther King, Jr. probably wouldn't have approved of the Young Money rapper's music. If it were true, Dr. King would be pretty satisfied this week: The chart-topping "Rack City" rapper failed to get a sample on the title track of his sophomore album Careless World cleared before it dropped on Tuesday. …
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• Hot Paris Club Le Baron Pops in NYC

  February 8, 2012 –  …
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  Photos: Black Dice and Real Estate Invade a Chinese Buffet

  January 30, 2012 –  …
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