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Best Of 2011
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Your Favorite Rapper is Poor: 3 Ballers Who Are Really Broke
Posted by Nathan S. on 07/08/12 |
Filed under Best Of, Features, Best of 2011, Your Favorite Rapper Is Poor"Your Favorite Rapper is Poor", the ongoing series in which I investigate the truth behind hip-hop's glittering finances is back, and since the last time around we tackled the "10 Richest Rappers", I thought it was only appropriate that this time around we flip the script and look at three ballers who in actuality are completely broke. See more...See more...
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Happy Holidays - The RefinedHype Best of 2011
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Features, Best of 2011To celebrate I'll be taking a holiday break from RefinedHype to try to avoid divorce and remind my daughter what her daddy looks like. I hope you spend your holidays with family and loved ones too. But just in case those family and loved ones are driving you pistachios and you need to kill a few hours on the interwebs, I've turned the homepage into a Best of 2011 showcase. See more...See more...
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Rap Lines That Make No Fu**ing Sense: Fabolous Calls Out Luda Over Dead Presidents
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Features, Rap Lines That Make No Sense, Ludacris, Best of 2011, FabolousToday is a glorious day! Or at least it is if you're a rap blogger who's devoted an unhealthy portion of his life to hunting down "Rap Lines That Make No Fucking Sense". (Quick pause - if you have no idea what I'm talking about get caught up here.) Man this has been a long time coming. Allow me to explain....See more...
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The Hype Men Present: Kanye West’s First Beats (Disc 1)
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Best Of, Mixtapes, Hypemen, Kanye West, Best of 2011Last week I was stumbling through my garage, searching through old storage bins, when I came across some old beat CDs from my days as a signed Interscope rapper. I was shocked to find that two of them, both given to me in 2001, had the name Kanye West on them. These two beat CDs, now celebrating their 10 year anniversary and I believe the oldest Kanye beats ever released, are here for your enjoyment. See more...See more...
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Speak of Freedom: Lupe Fiasco Failed Us All on “Lasers”
Posted by Brando on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Features, Lupe Fiasco, Best of 2011, Speak of Freedom, LasersIt took three years and numerous oddball moments from an artist for us to almost completely write him off and then in the early hours of the day – his album leaks. Us being the society with a penchant of sampling the goods before making a purchase, cracked open a zip file, uploaded it to iTunes and began listening. See more....
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The Great Debate: Did Wale Sell Out? Oh Hells Yes
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Best Of, Features, Wale, Best of 2011, The Great DebateWhat, you think he signed to Maybach Music because of Rick Ross’ philanthropic efforts? Because he admired the artistic vision of a man who once rapped, “I’m thinking money – every minute thinkin money / I bust a nut, then I’m back to thinkin money”? Wale didn’t admire Ross’ art, he admired his "Ambition". See more....See more...
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Meet the (Mystery) Booty of the Week, Rosa Acosta (Pics)
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under MBOW, Features, Best of 2011, Rosa AcostaI was just going to skip this week's Mystery Booty, but a flood of angry emails from booty deprived RefinedHype citizens demanded otherwise. So I'm using lemons to make lemonade; expect instead of lemons I'm talking about Rosa Acosta, and instead of lemonade I'm talking about pics of Rosa Acosta's booty. See more...
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It’s Official: Lil B is the Worst Rapper Alive
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Features, Best of 2011, Lil B, Worst Rapper Alive, Worst Rapper AliveThree weeks ago RefinedHype Nation set out to answer one very simple question; who's the worst rapper alive? Much like determining who the best rapper alive is, it's a question that's far more difficult to answer than it may first appear, but we've answered it. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the 2001 Worst Rapper Alive, Lil B! See more...See more...
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Hypemen Episode 40 ft. Bun B (Podcast Listen & Download)
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/23/11 |
Filed under Best Of, Downloads, Hypemen, Podcasts, Best of 2011, Bun BWe're both hip-hop nerds. We were both fascinated by that Big Pun "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It (Remix)". We're brothers in hype. It was only natural that RefinedHype linked up with The Hypemen (a.k.a. the good folks behind ItsTheReal.com and Jensen Karp) to become the official download source for their podcast series. We now present to you episode forty featuring Bun B. Listen & download...See more...
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Announcing the Winners of the 2nd Annual RefinedHype Awards
Posted by Nathan S. on 12/19/11 |
Filed under Top Stories, Features, Best of 2011, RefinedHype AwardsWelcome to the Second Annual RefinedHype Awards! We're live The Source Awards, only with less stabbings (unfortunately). After more than week of debate and voting, I'm proud to announce the winners and/or losers of the most prestige Awards in rappity rap blogging. See more...
