Other Music from a... Different Kitchen

Labels: Justin Timberlake, Sir Salvatore, The Cliks, The Strokes

Labels: USDA, Young Jeezy

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Lil Mama -

Labels: Jay-Z, Lil Mama, Rihanna

Labels: DJ Doug Grayson, Mark Ronson

Labels: 50 cent, Don Imus

Labels: Cover Girl, Jay-Z, Rihanna

"[T]he anti-hip-hop fervor of the last few weeks has been extraordinary, if not quite unprecedented. Somehow Don Imus’s ill-considered characterization of the Rutgers women’s basketball team — “some nappy-headed hos” — led not only to his firing but also to a discussion of the crude language some rappers use.

Unlike previous hip-hop controversies [though], this one doesn’t have a villain, or even a villainous song.* The current state of hip-hop seems almost irrelevant to the current discussion."

"The way the protectors of the public good currently carry on about their favorite bogeyman - hip hop - you'd think popular music just reached some heady new peak of depravity in which the airwaves are awash in a non-stop bitch-ho spew.

Pardon me if all this strikes the music fan as more than a tad behind the curve. As someone who actually listens to all forms of popular music - as opposed to those who spend their hours just attacking it - I have to deliver some disappointing news:

Not only are we not submerged in some new Sodom, we're actually suffering through the most squeaky-clean phase in popular music since Pat Boone came in to shoo away all the sex and cool from the likes of Little Richard in the '50s."

Labels: Davey D, Don Imus, Jim Farber, Kelefa Sanneh, MIMS, R. Kelly

Labels: Kanye West, Ne-Yo

Labels: Jay-Z, MTV, Short Circuitz

"[T]oday we are at a crossroads, because the institutions that have sold us the crosses we wear around our necks are the most overt in the denigration of women and thus humanity. That is why I write you today, Ms. Winfrey. We cannot address the root of what plagues Hip Hop without addressing the root of what plagues today's society and the world.

You see, Ms. Winfrey, at it's worse; Hip Hop is simply a reflection of the society that birthed it. Our love affair with gangsterism and the denigration of women is not rooted in Hip Hop; rather it is rooted in the very core of our personal faith and religions. The gangsters that rule Hip Hop are the same gangsters that rule our nation. 50 Cent and George Bush have the same birthday (July 6th). For a Hip Hop artist to say "I do what I wanna do/Don't care if I get caught/The DA could play this mothafukin tape in court/I'll kill you/ I ain't playin'" epitomizes the confidence and braggadocio we expect an admire from a rapper who claims to represent the lowest denominator. When a world leader with the spirit of a cowboy (the true original gangster of the West: raping, stealing land, and pillaging, as we clapped and cheered.) takes the position of doing what he wants to do, regardless of whether the UN or American public would take him to court, then we have witnessed true gangsterism and violent negligence. Yet, there is nothing more negligent than attempting to address a problem one finds on a branch by censoring the leaves.

Name calling, racist generalizations, sexist perceptions, are all rooted in something much deeper than an uncensored music. Like the rest of the world, I watched footage on AOL of you dancing mindlessly to 50 Cent on your fiftieth birthday as he proclaimed, "I got the ex/if you're into taking drugs/ I'm into having sex/ I ain't into making love" and you looked like you were having a great time. No judgment. I like that song too. Just as I do, James Brown's Sex Machine or Grand Master Flashes "White Lines". Sex, drugs, and rock and roll is how the story goes. Censorship will never solve our problems. It will only foster the sub-cultures of the underground, which inevitably inhabit the mainstream. There is nothing more mainstream than the denigration of women as projected through religious doctrine." (Click here for more.)

Labels: 60 Minutes, Cam'ron, Saul Williams, Stop Snitchin'

Labels: Iraq war, War on Terror

Labels: Liquid Entertainment

Labels: Hurricane Chris

Labels: Aphilliates, Dj Drama, Don Cannon, Julia Beverly, Ozone Magazine, RIAA

Labels: Lupe Fiasco, Papoose, Styles P

Labels: Don Imus, HSAN, Oprah, Russell Simmons, Tony Blair

Labels: Black Milk, Prefix magazine

Labels: Busdriver, Don Imus, Freestyle 101, G4TV

Labels: Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, Ghostface, Marco Polo, Masta Ace

Labels: Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, One Republic, Timbaland

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Labels: Mannie Fresh, T.I.

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Labels: Large Professor, Obah, OP, Vice Lounge Sputnik

Labels: John Mayer, Rukus

Labels: BET Rap City, Bun B, DJ Khaled, Pimp C, Too $hort, UGK

Labels: DJ Enuff, Jim Jones, Nu-World Hustle

Labels: Crystal Gail Mangum, Don Imus, Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Michelle Malkin, Sean Bell

Labels: RGX Bodyspray, T-Pain, Yung Joc

Labels: Iraq war, Moktada al-Sadr, Najaf, Pope Benedict XVI, War on Terror

Labels: Crime Mob, HiphopGameTV, Sneek, YBI

Labels: Cool and Dre, DJ Khaled, Money Malc, Rick Ross

Labels: Akon, Baby, benja styles, DJ Khaled, Fat Joe, jds, Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, T.I.

Labels: Lil Mama, YBI

Labels: Donks, Rides magazine

Labels: Def Jam Records, Jay-Z, L.A. Reid, S. Carter Records

"Keith Richards admits ingesting all manner of substances in his time. But none quite as bizarre as he reveals in his latest confession: he snorted his father's ashes.

In a wide-ranging interview published today, the 63-year-old veteran of tequila breakfasts and drug marathons described how he once sampled his father's ashes mixed with cocaine. "The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," he told NME magazine.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared, he didn't give a shit. It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive.""

Labels: Keith Richards, Rolling Stones

Labels: Devin the Dude, Freestyle 101, G4TV, Messiaz

Labels: Gutta Muzic Films, Hot 97

Labels: 50 cent, Beanie Sigel, Cassidy, DJ Sureshot, Freeway, Kanye West, Marco Polo, Mick Boogie, The Game

Labels: Jermaine Dupri, Magno the Magnificent, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Tum Tum

Labels: Just Blaze, Louis Proof, Marvelous World, Transformers