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Lil Baby should never be allowed to hold a basketball againSome of the hottest names in the rap game took center stage on Saturday night to show off their hooping skills during the NBA’s All-Star Weekend....

The Best Track On Kanye West's <i>The Life Of Pablo </i>Is Also, Somehow, The WorstWhat the world needs now is a great Kanye West song: no less and please, God, no more. Enough with the delays, the obfuscations, the feuds, the amusing tantrums misidentified as unhinged rants, the legit unmisidentifiable social-media disasters. It’s exhausting. He’s exhausting. We’re exhausted. To ...

14 Times Jay Z Got Owned By Another Rapper, Usually On His Own SongSorry, but the Jay Z you all worship might not be as good as you think. Or maybe it’s just that he’s easily dwarfed by the guest verses on his own tracks. These days he’s more or less abandoned making new music, instead busying himself with buying up companies and brands and streaming services or, i...

EL-P On The New Cat-Rap Classic <i>Meow The Jewels</i>: "It's A Lonely And Strange Thing"

Embrace the moment: One of the most feverishly anticipated hip-hopalbums of the year is finally here, and it’s made up almost entirely of sampled cat sounds. It’s called Meow the Jewels, and you can download it for free right here, and its backstory is now the stuff of internet (and cat) lore. It st...

Dr. Dre's Spotty <i>Compton </i>Is The First Record To Show His Age

Dr. Dre has enjoyed one of the most remarkable careers in hip-hop history. In music’s most youth-dominant genre, not only has he managed to roll with the changing times, he has ranked among the most powerful forces steering the direction of the rap industry for a solid two decades. Which makes it a ...

2 Chainz Is The Atlanta Hawks MVP

In 2012, when soon-to-be-doomed Atlanta Hawks co-owner Bruce Levenson tried to guess why home attendance was down, he found one unlikely culprit: rap music. The Hawks needed to draw white males ages 33 to 55, as he wrote in an infamous email to General Manager Danny Ferry. And while Levenson, a ne...

Fuck Tyga

Tyga's name has been on the blogs and the Twitter a lot lately, and rightfully so: The rapper, a 25-year-old man, is allegedly doing it with hair-saleswoman Kylie Jenner, a 17-year-old Kardashian. Maybe they're just occasionally going out for froyo. Maybe they're fucking. If the latter is true, it's...

The Golden State Warriors Still Love The CoCo (On The Low Low)

Yesterday, we learned that the Golden State Warriors were no longer allowed to celebrate victories by singing along to O.T. Genasis's head-knocking drug anthem, "CoCo." But judging by Steph Curry's latest Instagram post, pictured above, the team isn't letting the fun-hating puritans who rained on th...