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We really love a spectacularly ridiculous hip hop album cover. You know, one that deploys all the common cliches with copious jewelry, fancy cars, naked women, suits, cigars, a lurking posse, toned and oiled muscles, maybe a skyline, the works. It’s hip-hop, it’s all about showing off and having fun doing it. All of those [...]

We love the idea of hip hop supergroups, except that so often they end up sounding like so much less than the sum of their parts, which is a tragic shame. That’s assuming they put out any music at all, which is not always the case. Then there are others, like The Firm, which deliver [...]

As perhaps the subculture that has embraced Internet meme culture with the greatest enthusiasm, hip hop has produced some of the most memorable cross-over mainstream web memes. StreetLevel recounts some of the funnest in their listicle of The 9 Best Hip Hop Memes, from consciously created movements like Souljah Boy’s “Crank Dat” dance or the [...]

Kanye’s sort of been through a lot recently, huh? He released a backwards-looking all 808 album that featured a total of two rapped verses; he rocked a mullet onstage; he started dating a bald woman; and he was genuinely (apparently) humbled by his portrayal on South Park. In celebration of all the scintillating strangeness, we [...]

As you’ve noticed if you read us regularly, Listicles is mildly obsessed with animated music videos. And since they seem to be something of a popular thing these days, there’s been more than enough fodder to stoke our animated video passions. To share that passion, here are our favorite 4 New Animated Music Videos.
“Printer Jam” [...]

As you may recall, oh faithful readers, some time ago we posted a listicle of some of our favorite animated music videos, only to realize that there were innumerable entries we couldn’t include. Since then the ranks of animated musical short films have swelled so much that we are now happily able to present these [...]

Funny how with the iPhone takeover now iPods seem a little arcane, you know? And with the new Kindle 2, who needs a Kindle 1, not to mention its predecessors, printed books? Yes, technological cycles of innovation and redundency are accelerating to breakneck speeds, which also makes nostalgia for the technologies of yesteryear widely accessible [...]

Ever since MTV stopped actually putting music on television, we’ve only been able to keep up with music video currents in fits and starts. Our latest excursion into music video land produced these 6 Cool New Music Videos. Note that we’re not making any claims for the music they’re set to, but mostly just fawning [...]

Always trying to stay one step ahead of the trendsetters – or at least keep apace with Kanye West, which might amount to the same thing – Complex is predicting the rise of the bald beauty after Kanye appeared at the Grammys with clean-shaven Amber Rose.
While we’re not totally convinced this is enough to spark [...]

If there’s one thing that pushes the spectacle of a crazy music video for an awesome song into the canon of great pop culture it must be the celebrity cameo. The simple fact of having a contemporaneous superstar alongside a given musical artist gives the video that extra time capsule value as an artifact for [...]