Blog
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Follow Him Back Home :: A Review of Jay Rock's 90059
"It took four really long years, but the 'TDE OG' is back, off the leash, and ready to make noise again with his sometimes furious, sometimes soulful homage to home."...
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How Until Dawn Got Me Back Into Video Games
Jensen Karp immerses himself in a new video game called “Until Dawn,” a recent Playstation 4 release that is not only horrifying, but part of a new wave of interactive...
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Along for the WIDE :: The Story of JNCO's Rise, Bankruptcy, & Comeback Attempt
"Eventually, you can only make pants so wide. That became our Achilles' heel." Alec Banks takes us through the history of JNCO's infamous wide-legged jeans and their attempt at a...
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Photo Set :: Twenty Fifteen 101
"It's important to remember—CREATE MORE THAN YOU CONSUME... Get you some timelessness in your life." A crucial photo set and accompanying words from Alexander Spit.
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Straight Outta Hollywood :: We Predict the Next 5 Hip-Hop Biopics
Alleged fake deaths (Tim Dog), villainous alter egos (MF Doom), and one of the most complex figures to ever find himself a mic (Ol' Dirty Bastard)—this is the stuff of...
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Long Way from Home :: Chicago Rapper Saba's Road Trip to Debut in NYC
Writer Tara Mahadevan goes road tripping with rappers Saba, collective Hurt Everybody, and XVRHLDY from their hometown of Chicago to perform at NYC venue S.O.B.'s—a rite of passage for rising...
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The History of the Fairfax District Before the Streetwear Takeover
Alec Banks heads to the 1920s—before Fairfax was a streetwear mecca—to see the necessary steps it took to become synonymous with street culture.
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Mutated Bros and the Death of Subculture :: A Weekend at HARD Festival 2015
"Festivals of today remind me of the slow death of the subcultures in America, and the ability of the Internet to blend and hodgepodge genres that formerly were diametrically opposed...
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Ratatat's "Magnifique" Album Review:: A New Very Good Thing
Ratatat's new album, Magnifique, lives up to its name in this album review by Brandon Diaz.
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Monkey Business :: How Paul Frank Lost His Name
"To them I was just this esoteric artist.” How Paul Frank Industries filed suit against the creator of Julius the Monkey, the founder of the company, and the artist behind...
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TRUE STORY :: Behind the Corrupt California City True Detective's Vinci Is Based On
Rob Fee digs hilariously deep into the history of the "exclusively industrial" LA city where The Hundreds Homebase actually is. A city, he says, is "only a façade for making...
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The Rise and Fall of FUBU :: A Lesson in Business and Branding
In the midst of the Fresh Dressed documentary release, we chronicle the rise and fall of hip-hop's quintessential '90s brand, "for us, by us," aka FUBU, for a hard-earned story...