Between Lupe Fiasco firing blanks with Lasers and Lil Kim sending nothing at all with her mixtape (if you were one of the supposed 113,000 that bought it, of course), this week has been one Hip Hop fail after another. Sure, Pill may have signed to Maybach Music and Kid Cudi and Wale may have deaded their absurd Twitter beef, but when everyone from Tech N9ne to Lil Wayne is hit with a lawsuit, you can’t help but wonder how Hip Hop’s going to drop the ball next. but in the meantime, here’s a few pieces on how Hip Hop did things right this past week…
Ras Kass once rapped, “[If] they put on the cover of the Vibe, I just might flex.” While Razzy may have have been too lazy (must have been the Hennessy and hoes), a lot of rappers probably would have flashed their mean-mugs for Vibe’s cover. The majority of rappers have as much creativity as a paper bag, and with the exception of Cam’ron, ice grilling the cameraman just isn’t going to cut it for a cover shoot. Thankfully, the fine folks over at Complex put together a list of the 50 best Hip Hop magazine covers to break up the monotony of tough guy stares.
Read “The 50 Greatest Hip-Hop Magazine Covers”
It used to be that rappers’ side projects were strictly limited to clothing lines, film roles and custom liquors (remember Sizzurp?). Nowadays, it seems like an increasing number of emcees are pulling a Jack Black in School of Rock and hitting up the college scene as professors. One artist-turned-scholar, the Grammy award-winning producer and rapper Swizz Beatz, caught up with New York Magazine to break down his curriculum as NYU’s first “producer-in-residence.”
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