hip hop

Truly a masterpiece worthy of Salvador Dalí. An insightful commentary on our modern-day culture of reappropriation and its inevitable distortion and perversion of the original cultural artifact. 10/10.

Product placements aren't just for movies and tv shows.

Beastie Boys MC Adam Yauch, a.k.a. MCA, has died. He was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2009 and had been undergoing treatment.

In addition to his work in the seminal, influential, absurdly successful, and undeniably excellent hip-hop group, he also ran his own film production company and co-founded a fund to support Tibetan independence. The Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.

Two-thirds of YouTube users agree: Nicki Minaj's last single was a stupid-show.

You wish you could rap as good as this guy.

Comedian and actor Aziz Ansari is already noted BFFs with Kanye West and Jay-Z (he makes a brief cameo in the music video for "Otis"), so Tumblr site Emceez Ansari helpfully lets us know what it would be like if he were a rapper, too.

I guess we know now what Lil Wayne is doing when he isn't not practicing guitar.