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New Yorker Gets Great Hip Hop Story Somehow
2:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Wowza, Ta-Nehisi Coates got an entire profile of MF Doom in the New Yorker this week, something so unlikely it sounds like a dare. The best hip hop journalist profiles today’s illest MC in America’s best magazine. Mmmm, food.
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Hip Hop Is Dead. Magazine-Wise
6:32AM Hamilton Nolan | Complex puts together a very impressive compendium of 48 separate dead hip hop magazines. Vibe and Mass Appeal were just the latest. I didn’t even realise Elemental was dead! R.I.P., One Nut! [Complex]
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50 Cent Squashes Beef With Pubescent Tween Dis Master
6:48AM Hamilton Nolan | Canadian tween ‘Pruane2Forever‘ is best known for calling out 50 Cent for having no street cred, in a YouTube video, filmed in Pruane’s South Park poster-bedecked room. Now 50 got him, for real. Click to watch and learn (PR). More »
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Beef-Prone Rapper Charged With Murder
11:31PM Hamilton Nolan | Tru Life, a middling rapper signed to Jay-Z’s label who loved to beef, has been arrested and charged with murder for the stabbing death of a man in Manhattan after a fight at a club. More »
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His Special 1,000th Post-Death Release
3:15AM Hamilton Nolan | Death Row Records sold; new Tupac album on the way! Seriously.
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Rapper Murdered At LA Shopping Mall
11:23PM Hamilton Nolan | Dolla, a 21 year-old Atlanta rapper signed to Akon’s label, was shot and killed yesterday in the parking garage of an LA mall. More »
