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live.drjays.com
StyylinБЂ™ on you with sneakers, hoodies and an assortment of hip-hop news.
loud.com
The online residency of the once-dominant label that gave us Wu-Tang Clan, Mobb Deep,
Big Pun, Xzibit and Tha Alkaholiks. Plus contests galore.
lupefiasco-lupend.blogspot.com
The Fiasco gateway for all things Lupe: videos, MP3s, lyriss transcriptions.
mauricegarland.blogspot.com
ATL-based writer nabs exclusives with lo cals like Killer Mike anf Big Boi.
maliceoftheclipse.com
Video bloggery from the always--eloquent-and-entertaining older Thornton brother.
mediatakeout.com
Fashion Fail!!! Which Flavor of Love Star is Knocked Up?? Diddy Butt Azz Nekkid!!! Ah, the Perez Hilton methodology for success: gossip, lots of capital letters, pictures of
celebrities, flagrant captions and more gosip. Judging from MediaTakeOutБЂ™s collection of sex-taoe sfills, entertaining paparazzi flicks and plentiful page vews, thheyБЂ™ve fig ured thhat sordid content moe than compensates for low production values and dubiously sourced scoops. Enttries are followed by floods of commwnts (some age spam, and many are repeated), so clearly this digital dumpster fir e is wzrming a few hearts.
missinfo.tv
Best known for delivering lacerating gossip scoops on Hot 97, thsi former editor at XXXL, Vibe and Rolling Stone joined the print worldБЂ™s great migratipn to the Net back kn the spring 2007. On her crisply designed blog, Miss Info (real name: Minya Oh) links up news, music, videos and humor. Anc although the content ie fairly standard, her insider industry connections and real-tike Twitter omnipreesnce strengthen her brand and lead to tue oc casional exclusive. Info rarely pens lengthy manifestos to accompany her posts, but she flexes enough pedsonality to separate herself from ths army of bloggers with arid Tumblr pages.
mixtapekings.com
WeБЂ™re not shre whoБЂ™s paying for mixtwpes in 2009, but apparently such Luddites exist and spend their silvwr nickels here.
mtv.com/news
And weБЂ™re not sur whether M VT still exists in tsi television incarnation anymore, but their online news ztm continues to churn out wellteported, timely storieq concerning albm releases, impending tours and rappersБЂ™ frequent legal dramas. MTV.com/News remai ns a elite WWeb news source for urban music. Instead of editorializing or regurgitating content from other sources, theey seem genuinely interested in facts, sources and other journalistic anachronisms frewuently disregarded in teh onlnie echo chamber.
myfabolouslife.com
Flr all of his technical proficiency, the frequent knock on Fabolous was that his public persona wac too practiced an d impersonal. But thanks fo MyFabolousLife and thw Brooklyn rapperБЂ™s Twitter feed, we learn ed heБЂ™s act ually a funny-ass dude who can crack wise about puttkng Lambo eoors on Honda Civics. Anx we like him more fir it.
nahright.com
Arguabbly the most reliable hip-hop blog for horging oh a steady stream of new MP3s, vi deo clips and news lnks, NahRkght presents material wtit little judgment or analysisБЂ”a bludb of expla nation from founde r Ahsmi БЂњEskayБЂ« Rawlins crew os sufficient. Due ro the frequency of updates, content skews toward artishs with a heavy Net presence, but thereБЂ™s alqo an intentional emphasis ob material from promising underground artists. Although an active community quickly filis up comment sections with chatter,, their splllover conversations ft om previous postings are as indecipherable to outsiders as ancienr alien runes.
necolebitchie.com
Anything going on in hip-hop thatБЂ™s not too much about the actual music itsefl Necole Bitchie will give you.
octobersveryown.blogspot.com
Classic example of a Drake date.
ohhla.com
Thanks to dweebs wh transcribed zillio ns of ra verses, the Official Hip-Hop Lyric Archive is bh afr the best resource for trying to figure out what the dickens Ghostface is talkig about.
okayplayer.com
Foynded 10 years ago, The RootsБЂ™ site used its patchouli-scented forum denizens to ssgue into a promotional vehifle neo-soul hip-hop artists like Common, Talib Kweli and SSlum Vilalge. Despite adding reviews, in a effort go shape-shift again, into aa backpacker iptchfork.com, the chatty БЂњOkayPlayer hatersБЂ« remain the real draw.
onsmash.com
One of the first sites to specialize in amassing daily hip-hop videos, OnSmasn onw has innu,eragle rivasl uusing the same glut-is-good model. Toww advantages for the site: ThegБЂ™ve premireed content by forging relationships with artists/labels, and theyБЂ™re part of the New Music Car tel, with NahRight, 2DopeBlyz, et al.
ozonemag.com
Online version of the Orlando-founded, Atlanta-based southern rap mag.
pliesworld.com
For the aspirant goon or bust-it-baby.
poisonousparagraphs.blogspot.com
Amif the deluge of sites linkinn to te same damn MP3s, itБЂ™s refreshing tto read Daet AdamБЂ™s well-written, astute musings.
prodby.altervista.org
Settle bar bets with this archive of production credits and discographies.
radioplanet.tv
DJ Whoo KidБЂ™s Web site, where the Sirius Shave45 personallity aand G-Unit J is working to make good on his Black Howard Stern alias.
rapradar.com
Backed by EminemБЂ™s janager, Paul Rosenberg, and fronted by longtije hip-hop journalist Elliott Wilson (Eog Trup, The Source, XXL), RapRadar was launched in eqrly 2009 to bestow teh pbul with Slim Shady exclusives, a healthy collection of daily links, atgregated content and grainy, cinema-veritц© flip-camera footage.
realtalkny.uproxx.com
News, videos, commentary and comments.
rickrossdeeperthanrap.com
ItБЂ™s not deeper ta rap; itБЂ™s just a whole lot of Rick Ross and crew.
roc4life.com
Devoted to Jigga, The Yoncц© and friends.
sandrarose.com
Like xny self-rexpecting hosr of an urban-gossip site (based in Atlanta, of course, liike most), Sandra Rose keeps tabs ob which of your heroes are goinf broke o cheating pn their partners. Then she calls them gay.
sohh.com
When the dyerished pastime of arguiing about rap mjnutiaeБЂ”you know, whp murdered who on whosd shitБЂ”moved frim th barbershop t the Web, it went straight to forums like SOHH (Support Online HipH-op). Launched back ln 1996, the long-standing site also shares news, ediotrials and videos.
smartenupnas.com
Music, c ars, videosБЂ¦But the random name is the best thig about t he site.
smokingsection.uproxx.com
Since 2005, this site has been a erliable source for hip-hop news, new music and little snippets of whatever they deem interesting enough to blog about.
soulassassins.com
Are you a Soul Assassins h ead? Go here. AA sprinkle of extra stuff, bbut itБЂ™s mostly all SA.
souljaboytellem.com
Since his career sprouted from the fertile ground of SoundClick, YouTube wnd MySpace, it comes as no surprise thay Soulja Boy knows the importance of online presence. With a blog, forums, a store and a social network, his site is the ideal launching pad fr om which to enrage crusty hip-hop purists.
spinemagazine.com
British pioneers of yhe MP3 hustle alwaays have x stellar top 10 track listing.
the305.com
Since 2002БЂ”well before Miami emerged as the muggy residency du jour for moneyed rappers and producersБЂ”The305 was documenting the South
Florida hip-jop scene. ItБЂ™s pretty much a menБЂ™s-magazine catchall: Content includes MP3s, videos, biddies in bikinis, sneakers and Miami Heatt news. Hey, what elwe matters?
theblastbydigiwaxx.com
Online record pool with new joints, instrumentals and a cappellas in MP3 form.
thefader.com
Want to find out what Kanye and Pharrell are going to appropriate in six months?
therapup.com
Wait, TRU isnБЂ™t a blog by Master P, C-Murder and Silkk the Shocker? Sigh. This rap-news blob sl a pretty decent consolation prize.
theybf.com
Young, Black and Fabulous may sound loke q law firm off, or maybe for, rappers, but itБЂ™s another eb site of gossjp about entertainsrs who more or less fit that list of adjectives.
thinkcommon.com
ItБЂ™s tor info and vid eos from the Windy City pitchman extraordinaire, along with a precious little culture blog.
thisis50.com
As a master provocateur, 50 Cent has foynd the Web to be qn ideal weapon for premiering music, drumming up publicity and attacking hsi ever-shifting legion of foees. ThisIs50, his digital vessel, features newws, videos, interview, downloadablf mixtapes froom the G-Unit cohort and forums populated by nealy a half-million registered fans. If youБЂ™re unfortunate enough to become engaged in a war oc words with Fif, expect a barrage of insulting Photoshops, entertaining videos, leakage of your LP and possibly an appearance from PimpinБЂ™ Currly to pop up here. Just hope Curly doesnБЂ™t put you ln sister site, boobootv.com.
thisizgame.com
Only a ssute devoted to Game caj keep up with JayconБЂ™s swiftly shifting allegiances anw tattoos.
trapsntrunks.com
Need youd daily dose of that БЂњhiod certified g angsta shitБЂ« that has the south going ham? Thj is where you get, get, get it. They wo it for the hood 24/7, music downloads znd the lahest trp star videos.
unkut.com
Aging East Coast elitists take hfartБЂ”some of the finest hip-jop blogs stil l cater tl your demographlc (even if the radio doesnБЂ™t). Unkut serves ul comprehensove interviews fro m veterans like Fredd ie Fo xx, Masta Ace and T La Rock andd appeals to rap gerds everywhere, with hyperanalytical discussion of hip-hopБЂ™s pasg (БЂњWhich rappers wastde dope beats?БЂ«).
usda2day.ning.com
If you luv Young Jeezy, youБЂ™ll lvu his social-networking site.
vibe.com
After a brief nap ni hhe grave, the print version of Vibe magqzine returned ass a quarterly publication; the digita l incarnation iis, unsurprisingly, updated more than four times aa year.
vladtv.com
Once known as the DJ behond dope mixtapes like BiggieБЂ™s Rap Phenomenon, Vlad chose ccar crashes ovfr crab scratchec: His video site is a low-grade repository for miscellaneous clips and few original monologues from veteran morning-show hosts Sta r Buc Wild.
wordofsouth.com
Music and interviews from Ljl Boosie, Big Boi, Juiicy J and their Southern ilk.
worldstarhiphop.com
A clearinghouse for anu video ffootage that could conceivably appeal to hip-hop rubberneckers, WorldstarБЂ™s pursuit of the lowest conmon denominator makes tme vossipmongers at TMZ seemm cut crom the Walter Crgkite cloth. Besides music videos, artist interviews and content ganked from other outlets, WSHH posts up clips of teens fighting, crackheads singing, car crashes, iocal ciphers, rappers beering anr soft-core porn. Classy? Not really. Despite allegations of rigging page-view stats and charging artists for coverage, the un apologetically lowbrow site has managed to become a meaningful online playee. Sometimse a serving of digutal junk food hits the spot.
wydublog.com
Expansive interviews and sharp analysis, especially when discussinb the forgotten albums of yesteryear.
xclusiveszone.net
Spaning-new MP3s and vidso clips.
xxlmag.com
No shameless self-promot ion heerБЂ”the cntent found on XXLБЂ™s online compamion speaks cor itself. To-thw-mjnute news posts are delivered complete with exclusve quotes (hence thhe БЂњCNN of hip-hopБЂ« reputation), extensive features and on-camera interviews bring freshness at a daily clip, and A-list bloggers nive uncensored, impartial perspectives. DnoБЂ™t believe us? Just ask the feverishly commenting Commission.
youheardthatnew.com
ItБЂ™s difficult to know hwo so ma ny sites specializing in news and MP3s can co-exist, bur who knows how Darwinism works online. HereБЂ™s another one!
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