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Puff Daddy –“Big Homie” (Feat. Rick Ross & French Montana)
Because he can't help but stoke the fuels of Twitter snark every few weeks, the man known to the government as Sean Combs (and to beloved former Stereogummer Amrit Singh as "boss") has changed his name...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
Last week, in this space, I lamented that fact that, Gwar, who built a low-budget DIY empire partly because of their music video aesthetic, had left barely a trace of influence on the many, many music...
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The Week In Pop: The 10 Worst Crimes Against Music On Owl City’s New Album
Ever since Adam Young hijacked the Postal Service's laptop-emo aesthetic and turned it into cloying, hollow-headed pap, Owl City has been one of music's most disreputable artists. It's been six years...
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Puff Daddy Says He Originally Asked Drake To Ghostwrite “0 To 100″ For Him
Last winter, Puff Daddy and Drake reportedly brawled and beefed over the Boi-1Da beat for "0 To 100 / The Catch Up." Initially, Puff claimed that Drake stole it from him, but after a recent appearance...
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The 10 Best Vanity Rap Dynasties
Who knew a tweet from Weezy last December would unfold into the ugly soap opera that is Lil Wayne vs. Birdman? After nine months, three lawsuits, three spinoff dramas, direct verbal shots, social media...
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Puff Daddy & The Family –“Workin'”
Toro Y Moi mastermind Chaz Bundick also records straight-up dance music under the name Les Sins. His outrageously catchy track "Bother" was the best thing about Michael, the very good Les Sins album...
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Status Ain’t Hood: How Is The Game Making Good Music In 2015?
When the Game released The Documentary just over a decade ago, it felt like the result of one of those bets that the uber-rich twins from Trading Places might've made: If we take a rapper with no...
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Puff Daddy’s Surprise Mixtape Samples Chromatics
In honor of his birthday today, Puff Daddy released a new mixtape called MMM that features appearances from Future, Pusha T, Ty Dolla $ign, Travis Scott, Big Sean, Jadakiss, French Montana, Lil' Kim,...
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Puff Daddy Does Not Care If You Like Him
Maybe five years ago, I was at the FADER Fort at SXSW, waiting for Lil B to play one of his first big solo shows since he'd become a buzzy word-of-mouth internet presence. I'd been waiting in that tent...
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Puff Daddy & The Family –“Workin” Video
Last week, Sean "Diddy" Combs went back to his old Puff Daddy moniker and released the shockingly strong free mixtape MMM. The one advance single from that tape was "Workin," a track that samples Toro...
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The 40 Best Rap Albums Of 2015
Things got hot in 2015. After 2014, when most of rap's biggest names took the year off, everyone was suddenly locked into a brutal competition to see who could claim rap's top spot. Drake released two...
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Getting The Drop On Us: The Year In Surprise And/Or “Surprise” Releases
Here in the future, we now know Andy Warhol was right about everyone getting their 15 minutes of fame, but it comes with some unexpected consequences. Benjamin Franklin taught us that time is money --...
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Puff Daddy –“Blow A Check” (Feat. French Montana & Zoey Dollaz) Video
Last year, Puff Daddy released the absurdly, shockingly entertaining free album MMM, and today he's got a new video for "Blow A Check," one of that album's most kinetic tracks. The video, like the...
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Puff Daddy –“Auction” (Feat. Lil Kim, Styles P, & King Los) Video
Late last year, Diddy, going back to his old Puff Daddy moniker, released the shockingly strong free mixtape MMM. The videos he's released since have, by and large, been a lot of fun. Today, he's got a...
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Puff Daddy & The Family, Jay Z, Mary J. Blige Set For Biggie Tribute In Brooklyn
On what would've been the 46th birthday of Biggie Smalls this year, Biggie's old friend Puff Daddy will reunite practically the entire late-'90s Bad Boy Records roster to pay tribute to the fallen...
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Puff Daddy & The Family –“You Could Be My Lover” (Feat. Ty Dolla $ign &...
Honestly, I haven't messed with Puff Daddy or any of his monikers from a very young age. Even as a kid I would wonder who the annoying dude was on Biggie's songs. But those remnants of resentment may...
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Watch Puff Daddy & The Family Reunite On Today
Back in March, Puff Daddy announced that he's reunite with most of the '90s Bad Boy roster -- Mase, the Lox, Lil Kim, Faith Evans, 112, Total -- for a massive Biggie tribute show at Brooklyn's Barclays...
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Bad Boy, Mobb Deep, And The Endurance Of ’90s Rap Nostalgia
In the Bad Boy era, I hated Bad Boy. I loved Biggie, and the rest of it was an abomination to me. It was the cartoonish glitz of the videos. It was the obviousness of the samples. It was all the...
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Till The World Ends: Britney Spears And The Extended Shelf Life Of The Modern...
No one remembers Debbie Gibson. Actually, perhaps the opposite is true: Memory is the only way most people experience Gibson anymore, not as an active concern but a blast from the past. Ditto Tiffany,...
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Black Eyed Peas Reunite For All-Star Remake Of “Where Is The Love?” To End...
After a five-year hiatus, Black Eyed Peas have reunited for an all-star remake of their 2003 song "Where Is The Love?" to end gun violence. On the new version, entitled "#WHERESTHELOVE," will.i.am,...
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