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And what job will they have her do that keeps her away from children exactly

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Have I already run out of ways to spin the phrase, "Statik Selektah brings us another posse cut with randomly-generated participants"? Maybe

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Nelson Muntz laughing at jerks

An apt description of the elusive, yet always loud “conservative alpha male”

I visited Springfield to see the statue of the town founder, Jebediah Springfield

The first thing I saw while driving my rental car (cramped, but the largest I could afford) was a transient youth in a denim vest pointing and laughing at me

So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #33 While the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan and their ilk are mostly known for threatening to attack adversaries with swords in their ...

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ICYMI: Get acquainted with the softer side of the Wu-Tang Clan with this week's entry into the Wu-Wednesdays canon

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De La Soul - Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (August 8, 2000) Four years after the release of their fourth full-length album, Stakes Is High , the rap trio De La Soul, made up of Posdnuos, Dave...

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Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump, De La Soul's fifth album, was intended as the beginning of a trilogy that remains incomplete to this day, "this day" being 25 years later

R.I.P. Trugoy

My Gut Reaction: Dr. Dre - Compton: A Soundtrack (August 7, 2015) On August 7, 2015, after fourteen years of promises, noted headphone billionaire and occasional producer-slash-rapper Andre "Dr. Dre" Youn...

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Dr. Dre's Compton, his third solo album, which was inspired by the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, was released 10 years ago today, which means that was a bad week for his half-brother Warren G., right?

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If you haven't jumped in yet, come on, the water's fine, and this one's FREE

My Gut Reaction: Warren G. - Regulate... G Funk Era Part II (August 6, 2015) Warren G. has lived a hard life in the music industry: his career kicked off at Death Row Records, underneath his older, more famous stepb...

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Warren G.'s first EP, Regulate... G Funk Era, Pt. II, may have been overshadowed immediately by other releases of the week, but this now 10-year old project has then-unreleased Nate Dogg (R.I.P.) vocals, so...

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #33 While the various members of the Wu-Tang Clan and their ilk are mostly known for threatening to attack adversaries with swords in their ...

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Get acquainted with the softer side of the Wu-Tang Clan with this week's entry into the Wu-Wednesdays canon

Get more from Max on Patreon creating Hip Hop Is Done: critique, commentary, and claptrap for

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Why would Statik Selektah release a song about smoking weed that hardly even mentions the stuff? Let's find out with the help of Dom Kennedy and two-thirds of Strong Arm Steady

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ugh, *stans

cover art for new 9th prince-produced single

(niche post for Wu stand only)

Has 9th Prince shifted his focus from Killarmy to producing a Soul Survivor-style Killa Beez project? Because I’d be okay with that

I’m assuming this means the mandatory Nas guest spot is locked and Mass Appeal can start pushing it after Supreme Clientele 2

this is so goddamned disrespectful to the filmmakers, why is nobody in tech actually creatively inclined in the least bit

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #32 This week we revert to the Wu-Wednesday episodes without an apparent theme, and while I’m serious about the music featured being objecti...

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ICYMI: The Wu-Wednesdays series has run for 32 consecutive weeks now, and it's just getting bigger and better - come jump on the bandwagon while there's still room

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... (August 1, 1995) I don't think that anyone really expected Raekwon the Chef to be the third out of the Wu-Tang solo gate. Method Man had the charisma, Ol ' ...

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Only Built 4 Cuban Linx..., the debut solo album from Raekwon the Chef, needs no introduction

So I'll just say that it turns 30 years old today and that's that

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that said, 22 tracks? In this economy?

on the other hand, if this vendor has an online shop, they won’t have to sell to this dipshit if they’re always sold out of the product (that idea is free, libs, the next one will cost)

that new ghost song sounds like a natural extension of all of his earlier freestyles over breakbeats (this is an endorsement)

everything is so much worse, great job everyone

anyway, can’t wait for the kids to finally learn what an mp3 is

just add blade to the mix, coogler’s proven he’s deft with vampires in his sandbox

Not the alien invasion we necessarily want, but the one we surely deserve

RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #32 This week we revert to the Wu-Wednesday episodes without an apparent theme, and while I’m serious about the music featured being objecti...

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The Wu-Wednesdays series has run for 32 consecutive weeks now, and it's just getting bigger and better - come jump on the bandwagon while there's still room

Imagine coming across this post and NOT thinking, “Good! Fascism is not something that should be celebrated, nor should I aspire to be the type of person who would get upset at this relatively benign sentiment.” Can you imagine?

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E. 1999 Eternal, the second album from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony that facilitated the group's crossing over into your grandparents' record collection, turns 30 years old today

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RandoMax Radio Presents: Wu-Wednesday #30 We’ve been at this Wu-Wednesdays miniseries for more than half of a year now, and there are still several avenues I’d like to explore, b...

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ICYMI: This week's entry into the Wu-Wednesday canon has a not-so-subtle focus on Method Man's myriad guest features, so you'll probably enjoy it

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E. 1999 Eternal, the second album from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony that facilitated the group's crossing over into your grandparents' record collection, turns 30 years old today

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Published much later than I had hoped, but still always on time