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  Waka Flocka Flame Exclusive: Hear 'I Don't Really Care' Now

  March 9, 2012 – Waka Flocka Flame's new single, "I Don't Really Care," featuring Trey Songz (produced by upstart Skyy Stylez and R&B vet Troy Taylor) — from Flocka's forthcoming second album, Triple F Life: Friends, Fans and Family, due in mid-April — is a brick-hard, singalong banger with sinister, rippling synths that blurs the line between tough-mug heartthrob and sex-symbol street rapper. …
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  For My Dawgs: Watch Waka Flocka Flame Cuddle Puppies

  March 7, 2012 – Our favorite onomatopoeic rapper is back in action with PETA, providing us with the most adorable thing happening today. The animal rights group dropped a video interview and images from their campaign with Waka Flocka Flame, who doesn't eat red meat or wear fur, in which he snuggles with a variety of different puppies and ruminates on why anyone who'd be mean to one is a coward. …
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  See Waka Flocka Flame and Drake Dodge the Censors in 'Round of Applause' Video

  February 27, 2012 – Early last month, Steven Tyler went before the Supreme Court and suggested sometimes better art comes as a result of working within restraints. There's a "certain charm" in not being dependent on nudity and saying "fuck" all the time, the Aerosmith frontman reportedly said. …
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  Waka Flocka Mourns Slain Crew Member Slim Dunkin

  December 19, 2011 – Waka Flocka Flame may be pretty much the antithesis of hip-hop's recent trend toward Drake-style emoting, but the "Hard in Da Paint" rapper has minced no words lamenting Friday's tragic shooting death of his Brick Squad 1017 group member Slim Dunkin. "WISH IT WAS ME ... MY FUCKING RIGHT HAND IS GONE," Waka Flocka tweeted. …
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  Waka Flocka Flame Sings on 'Lebron Flocka James 3' Mixtape

  October 24, 2011 – Waka Flocka Flame was one of last year's unlikelier hip-hop heroes. The stripped-bare aggro-minimalism of debut album Flockaveli turned the Atlanta rapper into a radio standby and helped make producer Lex Luger's lurching menace one of the most imitated styles of 2011. Waka has previously signaled plans to release a sophomore album titled Triple F Life: Friends, Fans, and Family later this year. …
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  Drake Posts Three New Tracks, Joined by Waka, Ross


  September 12, 2011 – Drake's records suggest late nights at the club. …
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  When Rap Rock Didn't Suck: Lil Jon's Crunk Rebellion

  March 11, 2011 – For the first half of the 2000s, crunk music was rap music. The production of Lil Jon -- the fight songs of Memphis' Three 6 Mafia by way of shiny, Atlanta pop-rap -- was a hybrid style technically "from Atlanta," but with roots extending across the South (some Miami Bass and a distinct, New Orleans-based Cash-Money/No Limit influence too), but it was never beholden to area code or region. …
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  Children of the Grave: Rap Has Its Metal Moment

  February 25, 2011 – Last Thursday, skate-prick rap collective Odd Future signed off Tumblr and appeared on national television. Sporting ski masks with inverted crosses scrawled on them, and bouncing across a smoke-filled stage, Tyler, the Creator, the crew's charismatic frontman, along with Odd Future point guard Hodgy Beats, performed their 2010 single "Sandwitches" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. …
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  Fergie Defends Aguilera, Rise Against Tour + More

  February 8, 2011 – Black Eyed Peas singer Fergie has defended Christina Aguilera's flubbed performance of "The Star-Spangled Banner" at this year's Super Bowl. "It's such a huge venue, your nerves take a hold of you," she said. "I completely understand... You get nervous at these things. …
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  Waka Flocka Flame, 'Flockaveli' (Asylum/Warner Bros.)

  October 4, 2010 – Waka is more agitator than rapper--imagine DJ Kool as an unhinged goon with a fetish for brawling and gunfire. "I'm drunk as hell / Can't you tell?" the Atlanta rapper barks on "No Hands," a track whose epic strings befit a strip club Zeus would frequent. …
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