It has come to my attention that we’ve gone a full 3 weeks without a Lil Wayne post on The Rap Up. Please accept my apology, fellow Weezyianans. To compensate for my past missteps, here’s Keri “I Hate Beyonce” Hilson performing her monstrous single, “Turnin’ Me On,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live alongside the Greatest Human of Ever.
America, behold Kanye West’s alleged secret signee GMK or Golden Mic King.
Oh looky! It’s a new video from that other rapper in Little Brother. I’m told this song appears on Mr. Pooh’s upcoming sophomore album, Delightful Bars.
How high are you right now? Well, chances are Redman is significantly higher than you regardless of your current altitude. The good news is that Red & Meth have a shiny new album a-coming out next month. It’s called Blackout 2. Def Jam was kind enough to allocate a video budget for their lead single “Ayo!” (featuring grammatically challenged rapsinger Saukrates). Peep some more pics from the shoot below the fold.
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[L: Jimi Hendrix; R: Bob Dylan]
An artist named iri5, who specializes in chopping up things or series of things to create other things, has done something insanely creative and amazing with cassette tapes. Kids, save your compact discs, because they’ll come in handy for art projects like this in the future.
HAHAHA! Bow Wow is a comedian of sorts. No, sir, Run-DMC didn’t pave the way for you (at least, not intentionally). That would be Sammie.
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Another day, another music rag bites the dust. Blender magazine is dead and gone forever.
Blender, a music and entertainment magazine, will cease publication with its April issue, but will continue to publish on its Web site, blender.com, its owner, the Alpha Media Group, announced on Thursday. “We went as far as we could in a difficult environment,” said an Alpha Media spokeswoman, Nora Haynes.
Someone please put VIBE on suicide watch.
