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Grip Plyaz Wants You Pussy-Ass Lames to Get the Fuck Up Off of Him

I hopped on the phone with the guy who calls himself Your Baby Daddy's Favorite Baby Daddy to talk about his new track with Trinidad James, why it has taken so long for "Purp, Wind and Fire" to drop, and how awesome the Hall and Oates Pandora station is. Full story

Pimp Rap Has a New Prince and His Name Is 100s

We haven't seen an MC lay his mack down like 100s did on 'Ice Cold Perm,' his superb debut mixtape, since Snoop's last name was Dogg and Too $hort was spitting "Freaky Tales." It's crazy that he's only 19, half-Jewish, and recently escaped out of a terrible boarding school in the… Full story

The Noisey Guide to Queer Rap

The first rule of “queer rap” is you DO NOT call it queer rap. I made this mistake once and recieved a swift dress-down from Venus X that made my wang cower like a turtle. Put simply, gay is not a genre. Full story

Dodecahedron Made Us a Playlist

White-boy Rappers Know How To Get The Party Started. Full story

Filibustin' with Willie D - Bury Me Drama Free

I have witnessed relatives at funerals duke it out over everything from inheritances to the color of the casket. Full story

JR Smith Is Dating Rihanna and Life Is Unfair

What does it mean for the Knicks if these two are having genital parties with each other? Full story

A Handy Pocket Guide to the Foreign Translations of Rap Names

This is exactly what you need for those times when you're in a Malaysian Target searching for a remastered reissue of Pretty Tony's "Ironman." Full story

Shipshape And Bristol Fashion

Keeping It Real in the Westcountry in the 80s

Bristol today is synonymous with drum and bass and dubstep, but back in the mid-1980s it was the UK's hip-hop heartland. Against a backdrop of Thatcherism and high unemployment, the city's youth developed a taste for US rap and got heavily into the music and fashion of that cultu… Full story

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When Bradford Met Soulja Boy (Briefly)

Sorry, jaded white guy who professes to like rap music but can't remember the other guy's name out of Mobb Deep, but we love Soulja Boy. Since when did rap music being fun and goofy again become a bad thing? Full story

Do It!

I was in the Russian Bar on Kingsland Road ONE recent chilly January night for some after hours drinking. As the mist gathered down outside, I became acquainted with a young Polish girl who told me tales of a new type of music called crunkczar coming from her homeland. Full story