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  • 5 Drugs That Have Hip-Hop Breaking Bad

    (The Root) — Hip-hop has had a steady love affair with drugs. Way before studio kingpins like Rick Ross told tall tales of drug dealing, rappers routinely rhymed about their recreational use of marijuana. In fact, contemporary artists such as Wiz Khalifa and the reconstituted Snoop Lion have built careers out of professing their love…

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  • The Exploitation of Chicago's Chief Keef

    (The Root) — Chief Keef is an Internet rap phenomenon. Hailing from Chicago’s South Side, he raps about guns, gear, girls and the usual R-rated subject matter of street hip-hop artists. His music is more closely related to the “turnt up,” ign’ant, yet undeniably energetic trap music of Waka Flocka Flame and Young Jeezy than…

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  • The Kreayshawn Myth

    She raps, she’s weird and she’s white. Now 21-year-old Kreayshawn is also the latest YouTube oddity-turned-overnight celebrity — and no, that’s not a good thing. Three weeks ago Natassia “Kreayshawn” Zolot — a petite, foulmouthed woman hailing from Oakland, Calif. — posted the video for her song “Gucci, Gucci” on YouTube, and the Internet went…

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  • Nate Dogg Is Gone, but His Controversial Music Lives On

    There has never been a singer who made profanity sound as good as Nathanial Dwayne Hale, better known to the world as Nate Dogg, did. The hip-hop hook man, who died of undisclosed causes March 15 at the age of 41, had an uncanny gift for making vulgarity sound smooth and threats pleasing to the…

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