Lupe, J. Cole, Tech N9ne & More Let Travis Barker Get Wicked (Mixtape Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/22/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Mixtapes, Travis Barker

There's a small list of white people that black rappers love, but it definitely included Justin Bieber, Chelsea Handler and Travis Barker. As proof, I humble sumbit the former Blink 182 drummer's new mixtape, "Let the Drummer Get Wicked", featuring the likes of Clipse, J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco, Wiz Khalifa, Tech N9ne and more. I have to admit, it's a pretty dope line-up. Listen and download...

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Kanye’s Meggings, Bieber Gets Gangsta & More: NBA All-Star Weekend Highs & Lows

Posted by Danielle Harling on 02/22/11 | Filed under Features, Celebrities

Over the weekend ballers, celebs, and a slew of groupies gathered in Los Angeles for the 2011 NBA All-Star Weekend. Like many major events involving D-List to A-List celebrities there were of course a lot of high’s and low’s during this year’s All-Star Weekend. And you know we had to of course give you the best of the bad and try and find some good among the All-Star Weekend f**kery.

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Rare Pete Rock Remix Flips Clipse’s “Wamp Wamp” (Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/21/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Remixes, Rap Nerdery, Clipse, Pete Rock

Now this is a motherloving remix. In an age where the word "remix" means adding another verse from a guest rapper, legendary producer Pete Rock, whom we last heard on "The Joy", has taken Clipse's "Wamp Wamp" and completely flipped it from a reggae-influenced Pharrell beat into a slowly burning soul record. Listen and download....

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Marsha Ambrosius Lives Through “Late Nights & Early Mornings” (Album Review)

Posted by Ru Porter on 02/21/11 | Filed under Features, R&B, Marsha Ambrosius

After a handful of classic records, a few collaborations, three mixtapes two record deals, and four different release dates, fans will finally be able to hear her debut album as she intended. The thirteen-track opus titled "Late Nights & Early Mornings" is slated to hit shelves on March 1, 2011. It’s pretty evident why the album was taking so long to be delivered to us -- It takes time to craft such a dope R&B record from top to bottom. See more...

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Could 50 Cent be Coming Back With “When I Come Back”? (Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/21/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Freestyles, 50 Cent, East Coast

Over the last couple weeks I've started thinking maybe, just maybe, if he gets back to the core of what made him so heavy in the first place, he could still regain his spot among rap's elite. First there was the beef heavy "Old 2002 Ferrari Freestyle", and now he's dropped a "When I Come Back" freestyle that's exactly the kind of gritty music his loyal fans have been missing. Listen and download...

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From Odd Future to Blu, How the West Was Reborn

Posted by Brando on 02/21/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Features, Speak of Freedom, West Coast

this isn’t another article about OFWGKTA, their dismissal of horrorcore even though they create some of the more demonic lyrics heard on the same low-fi beats Lex Luger would eat up if he didn’t use a plethora of synths. Rather, this is a story about how the West had done something that very few have been able to accomplish in the era of genre-rap: have the world talking about an entire section of the country & its musical output. See more...

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Kanye West Releases Barely Watchable “All of the Lights” Video

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/21/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Videos, Kanye West, Video Breakdown

Kanye's "Runaway" short movie definitley had it's down moments, but the unofficial video for the hyper posse cut "All of the Lights" wasn't one of them. So when Yeezy released the official version my expectations were high - and then those expectations were immediately shattered. This is so barely watchable I had to give it a Video Breakdown. See more...

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RefinedHype Weekly Re-Up Vol. 17 ft. Wiz Khalifa, Snoop, Fashawn & More (Download & Vote!)

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/19/11 | Filed under Downloads, Weekly Re-Up, Votes

Thank you - because of your deep desire to procrastinate during work by flipping through our virtual pages I've got enough money to buy some scotch and a nice cigar this weekend. To truly show my appreciation, I've rounded up the week's top tracks into a new-and-improved "Weekly Re-Up", featuring the biggest week in music history. Ever. Of all-time. Now how's that for some hype? Download and vote now....

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Fails of the Week: Yung Berg & Lil Kim Move Into BullShitsVille

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/19/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Features, Fails of the Week

In the latest of an ongoing series that will include the best...or worst...fails of the week from the world of hip-hop, sports, pop culture and beyond, I examine Yung Berg's completely bullshit numbers, Lil Kim's completely bullshit numbers and other assorted bullshit...

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Freddie Gibbs Supergroup Pulled Over by the Cops Fight “Authority” (Listen & Download)

Posted by Nathan S. on 02/19/11 | Filed under Top Stories, Downloads, Freddie Gibbs, Underground, Bun B, The Cool Kids, Chip Tha Ripper, Posse Cuts, Pulled Over by the Cops

As those with enough good sense to listen to our last Hypemen podcast already know, Freddie Gibbs has a crew in the works featuring The Cool Kids, Bun B and Chip Tha Ripper, collectively knows as Pulled Over by the Cops, and today we got hit with the crew's first offering, the appropriately titled "Authority". Listen and download...

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