hip hop

CAN'T STAND IT

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.

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.

Jay-Z is a true American fisher.

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

Rapper Bilal ordered at the McDonald's drive-thru entirely in verse. It looks like he drove away before he could get his hamburger, but maybe next time he'll stay to see if they get his order right.

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.

Star Wars Kinect comes out today! In a move that's sure to further desecrate rekindle your love of the franchise, the game lets you play as Star Wars characters clubbing to music that wouldn't sound out of place on an R. Kelly album. Let's hope they let R2D2 dance to dubstep!

Better yet, he's taking up a much-less-overexposed pursuit: Skateboarding! Yes, Virginia, there IS a Santa Claus!

By the looks of it, GZA is the only member GZA and Ol' Dirty Bastard are the only members of the Wu-Tang clan that isn't aren't originally from Long Island Staten Island. HOW CAME HE THEY TO SHAOLIN?

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Edit: Please excuse the errors. We're very white.

All rock fans have now are the Black Keys. And the countless other rock bands that are overlooked by the Top 40 but still produce great music, of course.