I'm constantly out of touch, so correct me if I'm off-base, but I feel like "music festival" culture has kinda become a big deal in the States over the past few years, particularly among a certain segment of young rich kids. It may be even less about the music and what not and more about getting to flaunt that you…

I dunno, I feel like a lot of rich kids probably like mediocre rock/pop/hip-hop as much as EDM and brostep.

It's on the DVD; it's a good one. The joke starts with Black upset that none of the State's cast can get tickets to Unplugged, yet MTV is willing to pay for the Real World/Road Rules assholes to go on a jetset vacation.

You're assuming Mayer has substance in his music.

Kid Capri has earned the right to yell over whatever he wants. See also Red Alert.

People still hate "electronic music"? I love guitar riffs as much as anybody, but dismissing entire movements of music because of the technology is beyond obnoxiously myopic at this point. It's just tired.

If you ever come across any of Hieroglyphic Being's self-released CDR's, they're all worth picking up. Some extremely warped moments scattered throughout.

He took a while to grow on me, but I've fallen in love with his work at this point, particularly Splashz.

Whoa, didn't know there was a new Actress record. Love his work and glad all those retirement rumors were just that. He rules.

Is U-God somewhere in there?

Sad thing was, dude (and his collaborators) had it on The Score. That album has aged wonderfully; it's still a front-to-back banger. Post-Carnival, Clef both seemed to forget how to make hard beats and hard rhymes; believed way too much into his "pop genius" hype.

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Except for that brief snatch in De La's "Saturdays."

Yeah, I haven't listened in years, but I was always under the impressions that after Lauryn's album, The Carnival was the best post-Fugees project.

LL actually made Canibus change the line for the official version and he STILL dissed him afterwards. Kinda a shitty move.

I still love the one where Prodigy just talks a bunch of shit on The Infamous. "I'ma have to get on some ol' high school shit, start punchin' n*ggas in their face just for livin'."

"Killer Tape" is a classic. "THE FUCK YOU MEAN IS HE FUCKIN' DEAD?" "ALL KINDS OF FUCKIN' BLOOD!!!!"

Also, anyone remember when Wyclef supposedly pulled a jammy on Blaze's editor over a negative pre-release review of Canibus' debut?

I think most of us just like to pretend his career from his debut onward never happened.

But the song was a holdover from a soundtrack that was months old already, so it felt more like they were throwing on that track in hopes that people would buy Pras' album (which they didn't). The Bulworth soundtrack went platinum; I'm not even sure Ghetto Superstar went gold, so yeah, it was a pretty huge flop.