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Is Hip Hop Bad For Business?

www.nytimes.com | Posted 05.08.2013 | Black Voices

In hip-hop, as in all things, you get what you pay for, even if you don’t read the fine print. Three times in recent weeks large companies have l...

Tyler Responds To Racist Commercial Criticism

Posted 05.15.2013 | Black Voices

Earlier this week Mountain Dew faced a hailstorm of criticism stemming from their new commercial, developed by rapper Tyler, The Creator, which many d...

Pepsi Pulls Racist Commercial

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.03.2013 | Black Voices

NEW YORK -- PepsiCo is once again learning the risks of celebrity partnerships after an ad for Mountain Dew was criticized for portraying racial stere...

Does This Commercial Seem Racist To You?

Posted 04.30.2013 | Black Voices

From time to time, we turn to you, our community, for input on topics of the day that leave us troubled. From pillow butted imitations of Serena to c...

On Tyler, the Creator, and His Favorite Word

DJ Louie XIV | Posted 04.04.2013 | Entertainment
DJ Louie XIV

The debate about Tyler that is raging this week, and the fact that I really like Wolf, has me reflecting on my own complicated relationship with homophobia in hip-hop.

An 'Equal Opportunity Offender'

AP | JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. | Posted 04.02.2013 | Entertainment

-- Tyler, the Creator, "Wolf" (Odd Future/Sony/RED) Before you listen to Tyler, the Creator's third album, "Wolf," keep this in mind: The rapper liv...

'I Want To Lock Justin Bieber Up In A Cage'

Posted 04.01.2013 | Entertainment

Tyler the Creator may be just two years older than Justin Bieber, but the rapper has some words of wisdom for the pop prince. Tyler, who wrote a s...

Rotten Decay : BADBADNOTGOOD Is Re-Defining the Genre

Jerell Tongson | Posted 06.13.2012 | New York
Jerell Tongson

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'Punk'd' Puts 'Jersey Shore' Ronnie In A Hostage Situation

Posted 04.06.2012 | TV

It was "Jackass" meets "Punk'd" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on MTV) as Bam Margera took over hosting duties for the week. His targets included the spry-on-his-f...

Tyler, The Creator's Hefty Hotel Bill

www.tmz.com | Posted 05.05.2012 | Entertainment

Tyler the Creator is sorry he trashed a bunch of sound equipment at a Hollywood nightclub back in December ... nearly starting a riot in the process -...

Dispute Over 'Hotel California' Heats Up

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.04.2012 | Entertainment

Up and coming singer Frank Ocean may be learning the hard way that the flattery of imitation doesn't get you everywhere in the music industry. Ocean's...

Odd Future's Video For 'Rella' (NSFW)

Posted 02.21.2012 | Home

What does a man look like when he turns into a centaur with a Louise Brooks bob? If the answer to that question has ever haunted you, Odd Future's vid...

Tyler The Creator Rocks Out With A Jazz Trio

Posted 01.29.2012 | Home

BADBADNOTGOOD‬ is a jazz trio that takes Tyler the Creator's raw, gravelly raps and places them in lengthy jazz sessions (see past sessions here and...

Tony Hawk Interviews Tyler The Creator, For Some Reason

Posted 01.28.2012 | Home

Tony Hawk should probably never be in the interviewer seat, but here he is, tempting fate, with probably one of the hardest groups of people to interv...

'Workaholics' Star Breaks Back In Party Prank

Posted 12.23.2011 | TV

In a ridiculous example of life imitating art, Blake Anderson of 'Workaholics' -- the scripted Comedy Central series about a group of hard-partying tw...

Tyler The Creator Arrested

www.tmz.com | Posted 02.22.2012 | Celebrity

Rapper Tyler the Creator was arrested in Hollywood a few hours ago after he allegedly trashed some sound equipment inside the world famous Roxy on Sun...

The Game's Insane, Offensive 'Martians Vs. Goblins'

Posted 12.22.2011 | Home

What's the difference between a martian and a goblin? And why would they ever go head-to-head? It's hard to tell in The Game's new video, "Martians vs...

TheFFJD Interviews Rapper KREAYSHAWN: Clueless, Celebrity Crush, and "Music For Women."

Meredith Fineman | Posted 12.05.2011 | Entertainment
Meredith Fineman

So unless you live under a rock or haven't been near a computer in a few months, you know the internet sensation that is Kreayshawn. She's one part Am...

House Party with Alexander Wang

Melissa Berkelhammer | Posted 11.14.2011 | New York
Melissa Berkelhammer

Alexander Wang's full frontal assault on the senses manifested itself in an all out bacchanal after show party at Pier 40 on Saturday night. Each gues...

Pitchfork Festival Welcomes Advocacy Groups Countering Odd Future Onto Grounds

Posted 09.07.2011 | Chicago

Per a Thursday announcement by a festival spokeswoman, next weekend's Pitchfork Music Festival, which had come under fire for its booking of the contr...

Joseph Erbentraut

Hardly A Protest: Advocacy Groups Address Pitchfork's Odd Future Booking

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 08.30.2011 | Chicago

When controversial rap outfit Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All was booked to play the upcoming Pitchfork Music Festival, many were surprised. The gr...

Lucas Kavner

Odd Future Signs Deal With Themselves

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 06.27.2011 | Entertainment

Somehow managing to ride the line between overwhelming pop ubiquity and anarchic underground independence, the L.A.-based hip-hop collective Odd Futur...

(LISTEN) B.o.B. Vs. Odd Future (Wolf Gang Kill Them All)?

Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment

Young hip-hop collective upstarts OFWGKTA (Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All) have ticked more than a few people off and have disturbed still more. G...

The Past, the Present, and the Odd Future

Yasi Salek | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Yasi Salek

(All photos: Rick Rodney) I don't exactly pride myself on being on the absolute cutting edge of new music. Left to my own devices, I would listen to...