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Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]

Yep, nothing says “We’re turning this vital urban subculture into a tool for marketing consumer goods to suburban youth” like a terrible novelty rap song. And over the last 25 years we’ve seen, heard and memorized some truly ridiculous songs that have tried (and generally failed) to make catchy rap jingles. BuzzFeed’s come up with [...]

A video of a dolphin rapping (well, okay, a person in a dolphin suit rapping, but you’ll need to suspend that disbelief from here on out) came to our attention earlier this week. We quickly realized that over the years we’ve seen many videos of animals more-or-less-rapping on the Web, and that there certainly must [...]

Hip hop and hockey, despite their obvious alliterative camaraderie, seldom go together. This has a lot to do with the absence of African American athletes in the NHL, and the comparative abundance of black role models in every other professional American sports league. That’s not to say, however, that rappers don’t sometimes make (obscure, misunderstood) [...]

Tracking the strange and winding paths that lead from the funk, R&B, pop and reggae hits of yesteryear to the hip hop hits of today can be fairly torturous (especially when dealing with indie producers who don’t have the money to afford rights to expensive samples). Thankfully, Luke Carr from our sister/big brother site The [...]

If we ever dropped half a mil on some massive ice, it would have to look like a list. It would be a huge gold slab dangling from a chunky gold chain, and it would have the names of our 10 favorite precious stones listed on it in order, with the letters made out of [...]

There are at least as many fictional bands as there are backstage musicals and rockumentaries, so there are some pretty spectacular groups in Pop Tarts Suck Toasted’s listicle of the 10 Most Underrated Fictional Bands. And while we were all prepared to fawn over the Oneders from That Thing You Do, we hadn’t counted on [...]

If you listened to the Listicles-Urlesque podcast we posted this morning, you’ll have heard that Urlesque’s Stephen Lenz suggested a terrific listicle idea which he urged us to steal. Not wanting to disappoint, we’ve gon searching for embarrassing, endearing, infantile and injury-prone instances of seniors behaving like their grandkids. Here, then, are Listicles’ 10 Videos [...]

It’s not as if we haven’t featured Star Wars memes in these posts before, but we had made a promise to ourselves that we’d try to minimize Skywalker-related content, only passing along the most interesting and truly engaging iterations of this frankly nearly exhausted saga. Well, it just so happens that our colleagues at Unreality [...]

We’re all familiar with that brand of blog (like Overheard in New York and Robots with Stuff) whose operating premise makes it an ever-elongating list. Fortunately, these types of blogs are constantly increasing in number (remember our recent mention of Tenenbaum FAIL?), so there will always be new listy blogs to keep up to date [...]