Wasn't it like three years ago when Esperanza Spaulding won over Beiber for best new artist and then that guy who got his ass kicked by Puff Daddy said that the Grammys were out of touch and then the Grammy's eliminated dozens of categories because they thought he might be right and then started nominating even…

Plenty of people here love Jay Z. Drake not so much. But even Hova's biggest fans point out that his singles are usually the weakest parts of any album. For example, "Hate" is a pretty good track, while the hook for "Empire State Of Mind" sounds like it was written by Bette Midler. And by the way, I don't use a…

Yeah. To me, that's the biggest controversy to come out of her little moment in the sun. I know Miley is for the children, but I can't be the only one old enough to remember that any late 90's music video for a Cash Money artist had tons of twerking in it.

For inexplicable reasons, a jukebox in a Jackson, MS dive bar had Coletrane's "Interstellar Space." That was my biggest moment of jukebox asshole-itry.

I think the problem with that article is that it completely ignores hip hop that isn't centered on materialism and thug imagery. There's so much more than the five crappy Drake/Jay Z/Pit Bull songs that make it to the radio. While I definitely do not want to get into a conversation about racism on the internet, I feel…

I believe you. One of the girls I dated was kind of a weirdo, the other was a pretty straight laced sorority girl. I don't think there's a typical Rush fan, even among the stereotypes. I know way more musicians that hate Rush than are fans, and the few friends of mine that are into RPG have pretty mainstream musical…

If you want to get really technical, the skull thins out in places and our jaw muscles are the strongest in the entire body. I remind myself of things like these so that I don't end up yelling at the screen. It mostly works.

He's a fantastic vocalist in the way that Celine Dion is a fantastic vocalist. I'd never say he couldn't sing, but there's a blandness mixed with affected emotion that makes me run for the mute button every time.

Well, I don't like to brag…

It's not that we don't feel the need, it's that it's much more difficult with all of the visiting family and travel plans. As a side note, I lost my virginity on Thanksgiving, so I always try to commemorate the event with an orgasm. Preferably with someone else, but I won't turn my back on Pornhub.

I think it was Rick Rubin who wanted to call LTI that other thing. It was vetoed by the Beasties. From all that I've seen, Rubin was pretty far from the super chill, elder statesman studio guru we see now. He seemed to be an over the top, crass self promoter who would stoop to stunts like calling an album "Don't Be A…

Getchoo is the song that made me think that they weren't being ironic in their admiration of KISS.

He was also really close friends with Miles Davis for several decades, and that was one vulgar, salty dude - way into drugs, orgies, and being a belligerent asshole. Cosby has to have a dark side. I wish he could integrate some of that into his stand up. I think the closest he ever got was the bit about dealing with…

Folks 'round here don't take kindly to views about hip hop's golden age being anything but the early to mid 90's. Then you had to go and bring that Drake boy into all this? Personally, I think the New Orleans scene in 1999 gave us a Golden Age of amazingly original unsampled hooks, but it's best I keep that to myself.

For god's sake, there's only 71 comments on a Kanye troll story. It looks like people aren't taking to the new format.

"Vatos" isn't as bad on repeat viewings, but at the time, I stopped watching for a few weeks after that episode.

The zombies this season are looking a bit more rotted to me.

Well, if the one site that actually had a chance of fighting the lawsuit caves in 48 hours, the rest should be a cakewalk!

They walk a thin line. The scholarly aspects of the site could be offset by all the crowd sourced annotations that mention how awesome it would be to eat out Nikki Minaj's ass. Not to mention that a lengthy legal battle could temporarily shut down the site and scare off investors. I really think they could win with…

Tim Berne and Tony Malaby are incredible. I'll definitely check this out.