hip hop

Better ask Inspectah Deck (badum tss!).

Success really DOES change people. Specifically, it gives people more money to buy drugs.

Want to see some of the craziest product endorsements from famous hip hop artists? Check out the full article at Uproxx.

Listen to a Jay-Z song - any Jay-Z song - and TELL me Minaj isn't really Jay-Z cross-dressing and pumped up with estrogen.

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.

Jay-Z is a true American fisher.

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.

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.

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!

Biggie mashed up with the theme from Thomas the Tank Engine. Shining Time Station will never be the same.

If we can play devil's advocate for a moment:

Sugarhill Gang, 1979: "I said a hip, hop, the hippie the hippie to the hip hip hop."

Shabazz Palaces, 2011: "Yeah, you know I'm free, s**t, I'm free ... To make consume to catch the stuff that holds me down To capture my desires fashion out of this a crown Free to fill my smiles up with these tears that I forgot And haunt myself besides these pretty ghosts that float my heart You know I'm free."

Of course, this is just the opinion of a conscious rap fan.

...you DID see the poster on the wall behind him, right?

This kid is only four years old, and his rhythm and beats are impeccable. Maybe when he learns to read and write, he can be an even better lyricist!

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.