hip hop

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

Vinyl junkies and nerdy hip-hop heads are no doubt salivating at this awesome R2D2-styled turntable. It looks like a heavily modded Technics 1200, so it's not too out of the question to find one on Craigslist to build a C3PO counterpart.

[boingboing]

This really happens.

How DARE you sully the name of DJ Yella. IS NOTHING SACRED?

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.

Comedy rappers Emmanuel and Phillip Hudson do a spot-on impression of a squabbling couple.

If P. Diddy can change his name and Willie Nelson can release a reggae album, why can't Snoop Dogg do both? The 40-year-old rapper formally announced today that he would be changing his name to Snoop Lion and abandoning rap to focus on reggae.

At a recent press conference, the newly-christened Snoop Lion described his life-changing visit to a Rastafarian temple while in Jamaica recording for his new album:

"I didn't know that until I went to the temple, where the High Priest asked me what my name was, and I said, 'Snoop Dogg.' And he looked me in my eyes and said, 'No more. You are the light; you are the lion.' From that moment on, it's like I had started to understand why I was there."

[news.com.au]

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

Take a fish, put glitter on every third or fourth scale, place it onstage, and BOOM! instant pop star.

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

No, really you guys. It's really him.