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.

At a certain point in your life you realize that many stars of the music industry are more celebrity than musician.

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

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.

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

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.

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"Reanimated corpse" isn't entirely accurate. It's actually a hologram of the late, great West-coast rapper, which gave a surprise performance to finish off the first week of Coachella 2012. This proves that (a) industry executives can own your body as well as your soul, and (b) '90s nostalgia has gotten WAY out of hand.

The song for Nicki Minaj's new music video isn't as awful as her last one, but couldn't she have just skipped the song and gone straight to the video?

Okay, so MAYBE it's inappropriate to make a joke about Soulja Boy being a holy soulja in a holy war against hip-hop.

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!

You'll get a pass for not knowing Gudda Gudda, Tyga, Jae Millz, and Lloyd, but you should at LEAST know who Nicki Minaj and Drake are besides "the people who are black and who aren't Lil Wayne."

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!