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T.I. found himself in a pickle this week. He already had the B.E.T. Rapper With Most Guns category sewn at the award ceremony but then went and blew it by bragging to drinking partner ‘Billy-Bob’ at local ATL bar ‘Shooters’ that he was set to illicitly obtain one of the most coveted weapons [...]

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Leading lights of the ‘new’ (or, by the time this gets published and the interweb has been entirely replaced by speaking iPhones, ‘crashed and burned again’) Rawkus, the Kidz In The Hall duo of Naledge and Double O are both proud to be Ivy League college graduates. Which we imagine is some sort of a [...]

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Are you a rapper? Do you feel that your career’s passing you by? Do you see less talented artists hitting the heights and cashing those seven digit cheques at your expense? Do kids on the internet throw stones at you while mocking your emcee name?
Don’t worry young greenhorn! Allow Cli-N-Tel: the Fat Lace Rap Consultancy [...]

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Asalam Alaikum! I’m Lupe Fiasco, and when I’m not watching my Betamax copy of the authentic fusion of sk8 culture and hip-hop music that is ‘Attack’ or leafing through my complete collection of ‘RAD’ magazine (two copies of each issue – one to read and one safely sealed in storage, mylar bagged), you can [...]

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Real Life Hip-Hop Confessions
As told to Matt Sanders
“You ever seen a bear?” asks Brian Haerlvoe, a trembling, bearded 40-year-old in thick spectacles and a shabby green baseball cap. His left eye twitches uncontrollably, but still stares dead into mine as he puts his frankly ridiculous question to me. I hesitate before answering. Of course I’ve [...]

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Real Life Hip-Hop Confessions
“My wife found out I was gay for Kanye”
As told to Matt Sanders
“Where’s your husband tonight?” asks Julie Staples, nervously tapping her still-shiny wedding ring against a half-drained tumbler of gin. “You ever ask yourself what the one you love is doing when you’re not there with them?”
Julie knocks back the rest [...]

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