hiphop
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- Hip-hop artists are musicologists
- A Professor Explains Why He’s Teaching College Kids About Kanye
- Killer Mike Explains Champagne in the South | First We Feast
- Atlanta to Atlantis: An OutKast Retrospective | Pitchfork
- Tyler, the Creator Talks Directing Movies, Being Rejected by Justin Bieber | Billboard
- B Michael Tumblr: Just Free Stuff
- Interview: Big Boi « The FADER
- Why We Shouldn’t Treat Rap As Poetry | The Awl
- Dre likes to work in an environment where you can create
- “I don’t know how I’m finna do this shit again”
- The secret is that the shit is fun to me
- The Boss Is Hungry: Every Food or Drink Name-Dropped in a Rick Ross Song
- Hustle & Flow
- Abebe: Nicki Minaj, Hot 97, and the Fight Over ‘Real Hip-Hop’ -- Vulture
- Everybody’s Al Capone in a barber’s chair
- Rick Ross - Here I Am
- The New Kendrick Lamar/Dr. Dre Song, and Other Examples of Egregiously Obvious Ghostwriting - Grantland
- The Making of OutKast's Aquemini | Creative Loafing Atlanta
- Young Jeezy - Hustlaz Ambition
- T.I
- Never be ashamed of how you live or where you from
- When an artist brings me their work, I treat it like food — like a frozen…
- The Dozens: A History of Rap’s Mama, by Elijah Wald
- Paper Trail: Atlanta | Features | Pitchfork
- Artists and fans in Atlanta don’t seem to struggle with [getting hung up…
- Toward a Reading of Post-Kanye Hip-Hop: The rise of swagger and the increasing…
- Albums Recommended in "Dirty South"
- DJ Screw vinyl to be archived at University of Houston library | 29-95.com
- The syllabus to an English class at Rutgers
- No Love For Me - DMX
- I actually believe the South is a hungrier place, and always describe the East…
- The difference is between sitting around listening to music and partying…
- What punk was to rock, crunk is to rap
- I come from a classical background
- People's Champion: Behind the Battle
- Freddie Gibbs - Rock Bottom
- I need to see this
- It’s Gangsta Gibbs, hoe
- Terry Riley and Big Boi
- My daughter just turned 16 years old, and you can see it on MTV’s [‘My Super…
- Ain’t No Thang
- Dan Charnas, Author of The Big Payback: Interview on The Sound of Young America
- SJ Boyz - 501 Levi’s (ft. Jam Boyz, Wild Yella)
- Complex: The 30 Greatest Hip-Hop Demos
- The SEO Rapper - Page Rank
- Strip Clubs: Launch Pads For Hits In Atlanta - NPR
- Cocaine Blunts: Best Rap, 2010
- Dr. Dre - Kush ft. Snoop Dogg and Akon
- No hipster hats
- Big Boi and André 3000, 1994, with Atlanta DJ Greg Street
- Excerpt from Jay-Z's New Book 'Decoded': Cristal's Diss of Hip-Hop - TIME
- Listening To Rap For The First Time, With A Book Critic: NPR
- A Crash Course in Rap Lyrics Through 'The Anthology of Rap' - New York Magazine
- Eminem - Without Me (Ragtime Remix)
- T.I. helped save Midtown Atlanta jumper's life — really | Fresh Loaf | Creative Loafing Atlanta
- Dr. Dre To Release Instrumental Hip-Hop Album About The Solar System | Gigwise
- Dad Life
- Urban Economics: Atlanta, the Rap and R&B Capital of the World | Music & the Entertainment Economy
- Eminem — “Got It Twisted” Freestyle
- The Wu-Note Project, as if the Wu-Tang Clan had appeared on Blue Note Records
- Ice Cube - then and now
- Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
- DCPD Bangerz, Vol. 1
- How Lil Wayne helped me survive my first year teaching in New Orleans
- Tonight I was thinking I'd love to hear hip hop that samples bluegrass music
- Is it harder to write a sonnet than a great hip-hop verse?
- Clinton/Obama handshake controversy