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  Watch Western Tink & Beautiful Lou's 'Drawn' Video

  April 24, 2013 – Around this time last year, SPIN premiered the video for Western Tink & Beautiful Lou's "Fancy Schmancy," a lurching Terminator soundtrack-sounding rap with a video that included a stripper pole in the most dorm room-ish of apartments, complete with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles posters on the wall. This March, the duo's collaborative mixtape Mobbin' No Sobbin' was finally released. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Gunplay Plus Dubstep Minus Lil Wayne Equals Everything

  April 3, 2013 – This week's five songs are all over the place. We've got a bass remix, a #BASED club song, a rappin'-ass hero and problematic human being owning a dubstep beat, post-screw Tumblr rap from Texas, and a sober cautionary tale to bring you back down to earth. Enjoy.Ciara "Body Party (Remix by Kutcorners & Marvel)"With the Mike Will Made It-produced, Future co-written "Body Party," Ciara finally gets the type of song she deserves. …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Western Tink & Beautiful Lou's 'Mobbin' No Sobbin'

  April 2, 2013 – Named after a track from Austin rapper Western Tink's 2011 album Hard to Keel Vol. 1, the new mixtape Mobbin' No Sobbin' has been almost two years in the making. Perhaps, producer Beautiful Lou's slowly rising profile — two tracks on A$AP Rocky's breakout mixtape Live.Love.ASAP ("Trilla" and "Kissin' Pink"), work for Kitty Pryde (“Okay Cupid”), and Heems (“Running Thru the Jungle”) — is to blame. …
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  First Spin: Hear Silkky Johnson's Psychedelic Rap LP 'Debauched Legend'

  November 13, 2012 – After last year's Hater of the Year, a collection of Silkky Johnson's instrumentals for Main Attrakionz, Western Tink, and others, the producer set out to "make a project that's more fun to listen to than a traditional beat tape." The result is Debauched Legend, which he describes as "a psychedelic rap album," a purposeful hip-hop oddity: "I wanted it to sound like something you might find in a bargain bin and have no idea when it's fro …
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  Video Premiere: Western Tink's 'Fancy Schmancy'

  March 29, 2012 – If you watch one rap video with awkward dancing today, make sure it's Western Tink's "Fancy Schmancy," and not, T.I.'s "Hot Wheels," an attempt to wedge Iggy Azalea into T.I., Travis Porter, and Young Dro's world with little to no success. …
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