Sorry not sorry for the curse-riddled headline, but what the entire fuck Rolling Stone? Apparently, Rolling Stone decided that an asinine clickbait article from 2010 didn’t generate enough backlash-slash-clicks-and-social-media-frenzy when it was first published, and decided to re-unleash this moronic concept back onto the masses in a June 19 tweet. Is Bob Dylan hip-hop's godfather? […]

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It is completely understandable that, in a time when the over-commercialization, over-capitalization and rampant bastardization of the rap music industry by conglomerated media, traitorous enemies from within and pernicious cultural outsiders, hip-hop OGs would feel morally responsible to speak out against those who they feel poorly represent hip-hop’s traditional ideals and standards. After all, the […]

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A look at one advocate journalist's efforts to call out the issues within the hip hop journalism landscape through the years

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We don’t need ALL of the "writers" waxing analytically about its complexity and/or depth and/or greatness and/or jazzness and/or hiphopness and/or blackness

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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Bill Kristol & pundits speaking on rap & hip hop without knowledge or cultural perspective is corporate-sponsored bigotry

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The Grammys still have a lot to learn when it comes to genres like hip hop... But there were some silver linings in 2015.

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Radio is flocking aboard the Classic Hip Hop format bandwagon and the initial numbers are impressive. However, the long run might not be so promising.

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Weeks before Public Enemy frontman Chuck D ignited a war of Twitter words by criticizing Hot 97, the FCC received a document that could potentially knock them off the air. Here is what Hot 97 had to say in response, and why it might not be good enough to save them.

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In many ways, the internet has democratized both art making and art criticism. While this might have helped independent hip hop artists, it has also helped diminish the effectiveness of traditional music critique.

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Long ago, I predicted (and I have the audio to prove it), several times, that Nicki Minaj would eventually come "back to her roots," as it were. Looks like that time is coming.

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