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Gathering of the Juggalos 2023 in (NSFW) pics
The 23rd edition of Insane Clown Posse’s annual festival had music, wet t-shirt contests, clown makeup, an ”anal probe cornhole tournament,” and lots of sprayed Faygo and general debauchery.
N.O.R.E., Rakim, Raekwon, Ghostface & more playing Art of Rap fall shows
N.O.R.E. headlines the Brooklyn show and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony headline the Boston show.
Labor Day Weekend 2016 NYC event guide
We’ve got your Labor Day Weekend covered. Musically, at least.
Pitchfork list their 200 best songs of the 1970s
Back in 2004, Pitchfork published their Top 100 Albums of the 1970s list, and today they’ve returned with the 200 Best Songs of the 1970s. Some of the artists who didn’t make the cut on the albums list are now here, like Black Sabbath, Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith…
Father, Murs, Lordz of Brooklyn, Sugarhill Gang, A$AP Rocky, Earl Sweatshirt & more upcoming NYC hip hop shows
Plenty of great hip hop shows in NYC are getting announced all the time. We don’t get a chance to write about all of them, so here’s a roundup of some recently-announced stuff coming up:
Blog-hyped rapper Father plays SOB’s on Monday (7/13) with KeithCharles Spacebar, Slug Christ and Playboi…
Big Bank Hank of the Sugarhill Gang, RIP
Big Bank Hank (aka Hank Jackson) of The Sugarhill Gang, passed away this morning after suffering from cancer, TMZ reports. He was 57.
The Sugarhill Gang are best known for 1979’s “Rapper’s Delight,” which is often considered the first single to popularize hip hop…
Hit Squad reuniting to play a show; Erick Sermon doing ok
Keith Murray, EPMD, and Redman of Hit Squad
Best Buy Theater in Times Square will welcome the return of the Hit Squad on February 24th, the hip hop crew which included EPMD, Redman, Keith Murray, K-Solo, and Das EFX before splintering into the Def Squad after the EPMD break-up…
Sylvia Robinson, RIP
“Sylvia Robinson, a singer, songwriter and record producer who formed the pioneering hip-hop group Sugarhill Gang and made the first commercially successful rap recording with them, died on Thursday in Edison, N…