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Expendable Tunes: Five Breathtakingly Epic Action Movie Themes
August 17, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Flipp's Brynn Arens on Volume's 10th anniversary
August 15, 2012 in Gimme Noise
Flipp's Brynn ArensThis week marks 10 years since the national release of Minneapolis rock heroes Flipp's Volume. Known for their incredible promotional stunts, the band celebrated the release by playing...
Mac Lethal Gives Away the Chick-fil-A Recipe
August 14, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Kottonmouth Kings' Pakelika Is Dead
August 13, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Hip-hop performance artist and former Kottonmouth Kings member Pakelika died of cardiac arrest following an asthma attack Saturday night. According to a statement from his manager Doug Cosgro, Pakelika --...
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House of Campaign - Five Rap Songs Looking For Your Vote
August 09, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Going for the Gold: Five 2012 Rap Songs To Inspire Our Olympic Team
August 01, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Two Medals, slightly more sought after than 2 Chainz See Also:*Get It Together: 6 West Coast Posse Cuts For Your 4th of July Cookout *Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's...
Did MTV Really Snub Waka Flocka Flame's Rapping Rooster?
August 01, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far
August 01, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Nacho Picasso*Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums of All Time Only ten days into January we jokingly picked the year's...
Remembering Sherman Hemsley's Electro-Funk Legacy
July 25, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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Monday Night Raw's Six Most Memorable Music Moments
July 23, 2012 in Heard Mentality
WWE Tonight, television's longest running weekly episodic program, WWE's "Monday Night Raw" has its 1,000th episode. While the show's most known for its brawls in and out of the ring, the...
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Did Canibus Ruin His Career by Breaking Out His Notebook During a Rap Battle?
July 09, 2012 in West Coast Sound
See also: *Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time Last month, Los Angeles hosted one of the most...
Five Jokes You Can Make About Lauryn Hill Pleading Guilty To Tax Evasion
July 03, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Get It Together: 6 West Coast Posse Cuts for your 4th of July Cook-Out
July 03, 2012 in Heard Mentality
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El-P on Prince, his mother, and full-band rap shows as "dusted out Phish concerts"
July 03, 2012 in Gimme Noise
Photo by Timothy SaccentiIndependent hip-hop trailblazer El-P is currently riding his career's highest critical wave. With his new album Cancer4Cure, as well as producing the new Killer Mike album R.A.P....
A Tribute to the Spider-Man Theme Song: Hear It Sung by the Ramones, Michael Bubl and Pauly Shore
July 03, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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L.A.'s Top Five Actors-Turned-Rappers, Including Warren Beatty
July 02, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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5 Reasons You Should Be Upset that Ween Broke Up
May 30, 2012 in Heard Mentality
Co$$: "I'll Smoke Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y Under the Table"
May 21, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Get Ready For Los Angeles' Biggest Rap Battle in Years
May 11, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Five Bizarre Social Networking Sites From Musicians
May 10, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Remember about a decade ago when every rapper had to have his own clothing line? And then remember about four years ago when every rapper had to have his own...
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Top Ten Rap Albums For People Who Don't Know Shit About Hip-Hop
May 08, 2012 in West Coast Sound
You know, the "Hey Ya" guysSee also: Top Ten Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Shit About Jazz Hip-hop is nearly 40, but many still find this slightly-disorienting world of...
Critics Need to Lay Off Nicki Minaj
May 08, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Adam Yauch is Dead: RIP Beastie Boy MCA
May 04, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Here Is a Children's Cartoon About Snoop Dogg's Murder Trial
April 19, 2012 in West Coast Sound
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Crazy Town's Shifty Shellshock Is Out of His Coma! Here's Everything You Need To Know About Him
April 05, 2012 in West Coast Sound
Crazy Town's Shifty ShellshockWe were saddened by word that Crazy Town frontman Shifty Shellshock fell into a coma last week. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old Los Angeles native (real name...
