HIP HOPPERY — ANIMAL

Hip Hop Gets a Simpsons Makeover

: Eazy-E

: Kanye West

: Eminem

: Notorious BIG

Here’s a Simpsons homage that doesn’t involve any colorful culture change. Nearly a dozen Hip Hop stars were rendered as Springfield residents for a new print release by Format magazine. Designed by Moxy Creative, the “No Homer” series features a Coogi-wearing Biggie Smalls, spliff-smoking Snoop Dog and gun-toting Eazy-Z among other cartooned rappers. A group shot of the Hip Hop icons, measuring 11.75 x 15.75 inches, is available for $45 in an edition 100, while individual artist images are selling for $55. |Format|

By Will Sherman on September 9, 2009 at 3:05 pm

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Diddy Will Only Subject World To Rants Until November 6

There’s only eight days left till the election and one of the best outcomes of the race has nothing to do with the candidates, but with political scholar Sean “Diddy” Combs’ ~~announcement~~ promise to only post a few more videos—1 a day until November 6th. In his latest rant, the rap mogul warns young voters to load up their music players with “a lot of Bad Boy” music cause the “line at the polls is gonna be like five days long.” Sadly, if you registered via Rock the Vote, you may be waiting a lot longer than that. |Nahright|

By ANIMAL on October 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm

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Ringtones Ain’t the Only Reason

Every once and while someone tries to explain the loss of New York’s influence in Hip Hop. Are the beats to blame? This guy thinks so and believe it has something to do with not be able to parlay the music into ringtones: “New York beats are more head-nodding backdrops for intricate rhyme schemes than they are catchy ringtone fodder for teenyboppers. Absent a catchy hook, too many NY rap songs are consigned to non-ringtone irrelevance.” |NYPress|

By ANIMAL on October 15, 2008 at 1:58 pm

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DJ Funk Flex Shouts Out R. Kelly For Being A Child Molester

So BET recently did an interview with child abuser R. Kelly and asked him if he liked teenage girls and this moron actually responded, “When you say teenage, how old are we talking?” This prompted Funk Flex to express his utter disgust for the melodic, piss sprinkling pervert in this clip above. |Nahright|

By ANIMAL on September 18, 2008 at 5:46 pm

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New Jack Weezy Documentary

It’s no surprise that enhanced cough medicine drinking rapper Lil Wayne would release a documentary entitled “The Nino Brown Story,” after all he’s a huge fan of cult classic New Jack City. Who else would name an entire album series after a fictional crack house? It drops on September 23rd, watch trailer here. |LiveSteez|

By ANIMAL on September 15, 2008 at 1:11 pm

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Who Updates Kanye’s Blog When He Gets Arrested?

Its been a few months since that whole Ghostwritergate saga that led to Kanye West providing photographic evidence and angry commentary to prove that he writes his own blog, but the rapper’s arrest yesterday at LAX kind of contradicts that hands on claim. Although ‘Ye chimed in today with an update, “We back in the lab!!! I’m cool with the paparazzi. This guy wasn’t cool. I gotta work now… I’ll rant later!”, who posted the 12 items throughout the day while he was being detained? Like most of Yeezy’s posts, the hodgepodge of links included hot models, design shit, and fashion accessories. Eventually he was able to escape Los Angeles via private jet, but even with him missing in action on 9/11, someone still got the job done.

By ANIMAL on September 12, 2008 at 1:14 pm

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Kanye’s Vicious 9/11 Airport Attack Caught On Video

Hip Hop terrorist Kanye West was arrested at LAX today for vandalism which is evidently the charge celebrities get when they smash paparazzi’s cameras. Unfortunately for the hippie fan-hating rapper, the whole episode was caught on video by the repugnant ever watchful eye of TMZ and he comes off looking way crazier than that famous unscripted moment. Did dude really think he’s just going to waltz onto the first class check in line after creating such a public spectacle? Well he wasn’t police took him and his idiot minded cohort into custody before they could even get through security. It’s not the first time he’s been caught being shy on camera either. Free Yeezy? |TMZ|
Image: Blatantly clipped from TMZ and cropped accordingly.

By ANIMAL on September 11, 2008 at 2:43 pm

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Rapper Necro Discusses His Chivalry

Death Rap emcee Necro—who used to trade barbs with Eminem—is just about as raw as they get. When he’s not rhyming about murderer Charles Manson or penning other offensive lyrics he fucking bitches (naturally) somewhere in Europe. He recalls this charming story to SixShot:

“I was fucking this groupie in some Euro country and she fainted in the middle of me fucking her. (Laughs) She drank too much I guess and she fucking fainted and fell to the floor. I was like, “Huh? Get up, what the fuck?” She was just drooling from her mouth so I busted a nut on her head because I had my dick out already and I was close to coming so it would have been a real waste not to do it.”

|SixShot|

By ANIMAL on September 5, 2008 at 12:13 pm

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Waste of Space for XXL’s Lil Wayne Cover

How the hell is the supposed staple of Hip Hop, XXL, supposed to compete with their online (or print) counterparts when the magazine is putting Lil Wayne dressed as an astronaut on the cover and considering the rapper’s last album dropped back on June 10? And yet here he is peering angrily with fists clenched and face shield down, in zero gravity, all spaced the fuck out on the moon for their October issue. With the album not much of a talking point three months after the fact, the mag must have thought this bizarre NASA-inspired lunar surface themed shoot would compensate with hilarity. Blast off!

By ANIMAL on August 21, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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Rapper Tries To Hype Album Sales With Shit Talk

With the internet putting a big dent in music sales, releasing albums has become an increasingly tricky endeavor for rappers. But one formula that always seems to help spur some interest is shit talking. It’s almost obligatory at this point and Jayceon Taylor aka The Game, has mastered it better than his own lyrics. The LA-based, sometimes suicidal rapper ~~ranted~~ spoke to Complex about his album and more importantly—for the sake of getting any press—how much he hates J-Hova:

“Jay-Z is a subliminal rapper, he uses his words and isolates you like that. I go hard, straight for the jugular, with a knife and I’m cutting your throat and you’re going to bleed all over Manhattan when you beef with me. It’s that serious.”