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Does Listening to Lil Wayne Make You More Stupider?

Yes, as a matter of fact, it does. That's according to a fun web site created by Virgil Griffith, a 25-year-old CalTech grad student. He created the site (which has since gone down from too much traffic) to compare the kinds of music Facebook users list as their favorite with the average S ... More >>

Lil Wayne Wears a Lil Wade, Aids in Heat Win

It is officially a fashion trend. Since he took a Juwan Howard elbow to the face earlier this month and needed six stitches, the ever-stylish Dwyane Wade has been brandishing a series of personalized Band-Aid-like adhesive bandages (not to be confused with Band-Aids, pictured here) under h ... More >>

Proof that Hustle Holicz Have a Street Hit: Fan Videos on YouTube

The Hustle Holicz are the Dade County group behind the streets-to-radio hit "I'm So Throwed." The song has a great ad lib and you'll find it hard to get it out of your head. It's a sound effect that sounds like a cross between Master P's "uuhhhh," Lil Jon's "Yeeeeaayah" and Young Jeezy's "Yeeah," ... More >>

Slick Rick to Perform at Louis Next Tuesday

Courtesy of the Opium GroupIt's been just over 20 years since a one-eyed rapper from the unlikely London neighborhood of South Wimbledon released what would become one of the most pivotal hip-hip albums of all-time. Entitled The Adventures of Slick Rick and featuring the cautionary "A Children's St ... More >>

Rap & Bullshit

Why today's R&B is pure garbage

Random Sort-of-Florida-Band Album Review: WAUMISS, WAUMISS

WAUMISSWAUMISS (Little Ramona Records)The Carrboro, North Carolina-based duo WAUMISS traces its roots back to Florida, to a series of early-Nineties Tampa and St. Petersburg bedrooms that produced many beautifully skewed pop songs. The musicians who comprise WAUMISS became two of many who wandered ... More >>

Spin Magazine Names Lil Wayne Rock Star of the Year

This one deserves to be debated for awhile. In a somewhat shocking proclamation, Spin Magazine, recently named current Miami resident Lil Wayne as Rock Star of the Year. It's a nice gesture but you've got to wonder if he's really earned it?Before everyone jumps and curses Spin for trying to stir up ... More >>

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I ... More >>

Top 10 Pop Songs of 2008

Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singl ... More >>

Q&A With T-Pain, Performing at AAA on Sunday

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

Bigga Rankin Presents Brisco

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

Last Night: Estelle, Gym Class Heroes, the Roots, and Lil Wayne at The Fillmore Miami Beach

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

Top Ten Stripper Songs of the Moment

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

G-Unit

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

Bow Wow

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

DJ Tom Laroc Mashes Up Barrington Levy and Lil Wayne

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

Loving the New Kanye/Weezy Collaboration

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Kon ... More >>

The Boatlift Floats

Pitbull bounces back

Pimp C's Cause of Death Revealed

Pitbull bounces back

The Year in Music

Our 2007 listening party with Vanilla Ice, Davy Jones, and Al Franken

The Ten Most Hated Figures in Hip-hop

Break out the Haterade

Last Night: the Stooges at Art Basel's Art Loves Music

Break out the Haterade

Jah Cure Concert Postponed

Break out the Haterade

T.I. Still Behind Bars

Break out the Haterade

Timestable MC

If you like math rock, you'll love math rap

DJ GQ

Let Em Know Vol. 19 (Q Music Group)

Album Review: Young Buck

Let Em Know Vol. 19 (Q Music Group)

Check the Technique

New hip-hop book provides the oral history behind 36 immortal albums

J-Perk

(Organized Confuzion)

Dred Scott!

George Bush is the devil! Notes from SXSW.

Energy Flash

In with the old, in with the new

Cinco de Mayhem

Family Force 5

Future Perfect

Mike Jones and the Jetsetter Lounge offer a revisionist history of the future.

Santana

All That I Am (Arista)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

All That I Am (Arista)

The Revolution Revisited

Talib Kweli brings hip-hop back to the front lines

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Talib Kweli brings hip-hop back to the front lines

Funky Bunch

Mark Wahlberg stars in an odd remake that, oddly, isn't so bad

Slim Chance

The Anger Management Tour may be Eminem's farewell

Boyz N the Studio

Hustle & Flow is short on action, long on scenes of recording

Diddy Does It

Hustle & Flow is short on action, long on scenes of recording

T.I.

Urban Legend (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

The Roots

Urban Legend (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

Earache

Throw your cans in the air

Lloyd Banks

The Hunger for More (Interscope)

Bon Voyage

Saying sayonara to the dear departed

Kid 606

Who Still Kill Sound? (Tigerbeat6)

The Best of 2003

Ranking and filing our Local Top Ten

Mystikal

Tarantula (Jive)