That's not a type, if anyone was wondering– Core Concept sprung fully formed from his parent's head.

Fair enough, to each his own

Probably nothing I can recommend that you haven't already listened to, but it's pretty funny to me that you like soul samples but not the mainstream rapper most famous for using them. If you don't know already, Watch The Throne has songs built around Otis Redding, Nina Simone, and Curtis Mayfield samples (Otis, New…

Wait, you think that "there's something warm and organic about a James Brown drum sample that…most of today's stuff can never capture" but also that Kanye's stuff doesn't sound like it has any real soul?

I blame the rise of 100% digital music making, which ruined everything

Really great stuff is and has always been the exception in literally every single art form that has ever existed. Loudly proclaiming that there's no good (INSERT MEDIUM HERE) anymore says more about you and how your tastes have calcified than anything else.

His discussion of his sugar addiction in that doc is pretty sobering in hindsight.

As someone that thinks 90% of Rap today is absolute crap

Popov. The name being Russian means it's the real deal.

Ehhh, bit more to it than that. From what I understand, Gawker argued that Hogan knew he was being recorded, and that plus his radio discussion of the video made a public matter. They pushed for Bubba (the dude who recorded it) to testify re Hulk's knowledge, but Hogan's lawyers were able to block it, I think. For…

And he's 41! Jesus, that's depressing.

Billy is so bad it's frustrating. I was hoping he'd follow the Greg Howard path of shaky soccer writer who eventually finds his own voice, but he's just never moved past wordy and uninformed summaries of better writers' articles.

I know they're kind of a necessary evil in crime fiction, but there's definitely more elegant and interesting ways of doing them than having someone give a 8-page monologue chronologically explaining every detail. I guess the complexity of the three-protagonist thing requires it, though that doesn't make it any less…

I love Hammett, but The Dain Curse doesn't make any fucking sense

Don't get me wrong, I liked it and plan to keep reading more Ellroy. I just felt like it was sometimes grotesque without the emotional punch of The Black Dahlia, so it didn't have the same effect and was a bit of a grind to read at times. Also, Danny Upshaw was the clear standout character in my mind, with Buzz a…

Working through Ellroy's LA Quartet. Just finished The Big Nowhere, which wasn't bad but I liked The Black Dahlia better. I feel like Big Nowhere did that thing where there's multiple protagonists but the author clearly enjoys writing one moreso than others, and the explanation at the end was a infodump even by…

First off, if you believe any of the entries on CelebrityNetWorth dot com I've got a bridge to sell you. Soulja Boy's made some really good music over that past 10 years and he's always been ahead of the game in understanding how to get paid off the internet, so why is it surprising or disappointing in any way that…

Why?

Man, the pushback here's a little dispiriting. Soulja Boy's responsible for some really great fun music, including stuff beyond Crank Dat. Even if you're a joyless misanthrope who can't stand his music his influence is undeniable– you can draw a direct line from his youtube channel to the current vine dance culture.

You're probably right; our printings were cheaply laminated and pretty beaten up by the time we got to them, so they were a range of shades of purple.