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Behold, the Self-Help Program Inspired by Kanye West Lyrics

If you’ve ever found yourself feeling inadequate and needed some words of wisdom to help get you to the next level, then don’t fret, greenlabel.com has come up with a solution in the form of a Kanye […]

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Pope Francis Gets Reimagined as an Emcee w/ #PopeBars

Compared to past Popes, Pope Francis is a rockstar; he’s been in cheeky commercials, made headlines with statements of reform, dropped an album, and now, as if it wasn’t already written into the script, he’s […]

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Op-Ed: The Intoxicating Irrelevance of PSY’s Return to Viral Form, ‘Daddy’

The man behind the “Gangnam Style” juggernaut is back. However, he’s been “back” before — there was 2013’s “Gentleman” and 2014’s Snoop Dogg-featuring “Hangover,” which have netted roughly 900 and 230-million and YouTube views. And that’s nothing compared […]

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Op-Ed: As a German Singer Gets Cut From Eurovision, the Controversial Lyric Debate Gets Murkier

First of all, let’s just bask in the absolute glory that is this name Xavier Naidoo. Apparently he’s a hotshot German R&B singer who happens to throw some pretty intense lyrical Nazism into his tunes. Unsurprisingly, his […]

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Op-Ed: Misogyny’s Probably Not We Why Collectively Hate Nickelback

Everyone has at least one artist they absolutely loathe, just as much as they have artists they adore. Many artists, at least at some point in their peak years, attract equal parts devotees and detractors. […]

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Op-Ed: Vince Staples’ Perfectly Ignorant Lens on ’90s Rap

In an interview with Time Magazine Vince Staples made some suspect comments about ’90s rap, which is known by many as the golden-era. It was perceived as disrespect, quickly sparking a very public outcry. Staples said, “The ’90s get […]

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Rhymefest Opens Another Dialogue on Songwriter-Singer Divide

We all know about “Black Skinhead” and “Jesus Walks;” two of Kanye‘s biggest hits. But how many out there know who actually wrote it or that he didn’t even write it at all, that it was […]

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‘Take Down Your Flag’: Musicians Respond to Charleston Shooting

Two days after a young white gunman acting in the name of white supremacy murdered nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina, a Wisconsin folk singer reacted with a song on YouTube that has […]

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ICYMI: Gerarldo Rivera’s Asinine Comments on Hip-Hop, Kendrick Lamar

When Fox news reports on hip-hop culture you can almost guarantee that it’ll be mired in shoddy reporting, ignorant assumptions and laughable quotes. Gerarldo Rivera kept that trend alive when he criticized Kendrick Lamar’s performance […]

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Nas on Racism: ‘America is Selling a False Dream’

The tragic shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina has elicited several reactions — from outrage and disgust to a complete reanalysis of the American dream. A bevy of artists have responded […]

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