Last month, out of the blue, Makin Moves was served with court papers from Cash Money. Lique: "I think they could have contacted Drama and us before just suing everyone. It's not hard to find us and talk, you know?"
Reconsider your defendants, Weezy.
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You might recall a slew of ominous articles in 2007 proclaiming that hip-hop was through. Sales were way down, and the culprits were clear: jewelry, violence, and naughty dancing.
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Everything you wanted to know about the year in music, in tidy lists of 10.
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He may be the best rapper alive, but Lil Wayne’s starting to look like an extra from the “Thriller” video. And now, on the heels of his awful “Let It Rock” collabo with emo wannabe Kevin Rudolf, the erratic N’awlins spitter is threatening to morph into a guitar hero — even though his ill-fated SNL foray into shredding was hailed in the blogosphere as the worst solo, ever.
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With four solo albums to his name and no more than a meager reputation, you’d expect former Hot Boy Lil’ Wayne to have gotten tired by the time he set out to record Tha Carter, Vol. 2 .
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To get the full taste of where hip-hop is at, you also have to seek out the unofficial releases, the mixtapes, which often have a bigger impact than the official albums.
- Freestyle fellowships
Although crunk partisans probably won’t care for the comparison, LA rapper Busdriver might be thought of as the indie hip-hop analogue to Lil’ Wayne.
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Brzowski’s Blooddrive Vol. 2: The Wreckage Between, a mixtape released earlier this summer, is full of all kinds of ear candy.
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