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  • LW Ephemereview: The 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards

    Jun 24, 2008

    Michael Vick love, rapping academics and more Kanye outrageousness: it can only be the 2007 BET Hip Hop Awards

  • MCA Dispatches From Direct To DVD Purgatory: Miss Cast Away, American Crude and Death Of A Dynasty

    Jun 16, 2008

    In this month’s super-sized round-up of DTV joints Michael Jackson gets spoofy, Rob Schneider gets handcuffed to a chick with a dick and director Damon Dash offers a not-at-all ironic feature-length testament to the unbreakable bond he shares with fellow Roc-A-Fella founder Jay-Z. Also, a brief note on The Onion Movie

  • Jay Z Primer: Jay-Z

    Nov 16, 2007

    A beginner's guide to the newly resurgent, self-proclaimed Best Rapper Alive.

  • Jay Z American Gangster Jay-Z

    Nov 08, 2007

    The non-boring Jay-Z is officially back.

  • Talib Kweli Talib Kweli

    Aug 21, 2007

    Some hip-hop is clearly destined to pass the test of time.

  • MIA M.I.A.

    Aug 21, 2007

    So this is pop? It's hard to tell. But easy to enjoy.

  • Chrisette Michele Chrisette Michele

    Jul 17, 2007

    Hip-hop hook mistress Chrisette Michele holds up the charm remarkably well on her first solo album.

  • Fabolous Fabolous

    Jul 03, 2007

    The talented underachiever continues to act like he has nothing to prove.

  • Ne Yo Ne-Yo

    May 22, 2007

    An R&B singer submerges complicated pleasures beneath his second album’s slick surface.

  • boombox Crosstalk: Is Hip-hop Relevant To Middle-Aged White Guys?

    Feb 22, 2007

    Two music writers with decidedly different attitudes toward hip-hop talk about their differences.