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The force of the Shotgun: A look back at Samurai Shotgun’s Riptide Album Release Party at Crowbar
DEA + Saint report back on the Sat., March 19 event at Crowbar, with words & pics.
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Flow riders: Hip-hop and skate cultures collide at Tampa Pro
This weekend’s competition at Skatepark of Tampa showcases a cross-pollination of scenes.
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New Studio to Take Tampa by Storm
Your Weekly Dance Blog: The Hip Room Dance Studio has high expectations opening early this spring
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Listen: A$AP Ferg ft. Future, “New Level”
From his upcoming sophomore album, Always Strive and Prosper
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Listen: 7 horrifying hip hop tracks for your Halloween playlist
Get your hip-hop Halloween playlist started with these seven scary tunes.
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Concert review: Joey Bada$$ raps beyond his years at Orpheum
The young rapper played to a packed venue in Ybor on Saturday night.
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Is Fetty Wap dumbing down hip-hop?
The latest rash of discussions about hip hop’s decline surround a buzzing, chart-topping New Jersey rapper.
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Cats invade New York in Meow the Jewels video, “Oh My Darling (Don’t Meow)”
Watch the video, then download Meow
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Big Grams (Big Boi & Phantogram) drops first single, “Fell in the Sun”
…and it b-a-n-g bangs.
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Listen: YG, “Twist My Fingaz”
Catch the Compton rapper at the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheater on Aug. 16
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50 Cent files for bankruptcy
Former baller’s roll gets smaller.
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Watch Drake transform into Oprah, Justin Bieber and others in “Energy” video
It’s…interesting, to say the least.
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Watch Snoop Dogg tell an amazing story about his first time meeting Tupac
And Michael Rapaport was there to witness it all.
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El-P previews Meow the Jewels, a Run the Jewels remix LP made almost entirely of cat sounds
With contributions from The Alchemist, Just Blaze, Geoff Barrow + more
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Theater Review: In the Heights
The American Stage in the Park production brings an eye-popping, rump-shaking street party to Demens Landing.
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The Hip Hop ABCs: Winner of Letter I; vote on Letter J
The alphabetical rap battles continue.
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Watch: Freddie Gibbs rap in a bathtub of snakes in “Pronto”
It’s like some weird, sexy nightmare you can’t look away from.
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Tyler, the Creator announces new album, Cherry Bomb, along with new App
The Odd Future figurehead will drops his latest LP shortly before his concert at Jannus Live on April 25
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Watch: Kendrick Lamar’s “King Kunta” video
The Compton emcee drops a hometown-honored music video