Category: Features

YoRapper breaks down his thoughts on the latest happening in hip hop or just whatever pissed him off that day.

Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Black People

Is Kanye’s clothing line taking away time he could be pretending to make socially relevant music? After Pitchfork gave Kanye their virginity does he only care about post-hipster consumerism? Who is that white girl? Is she the one that asked Kanye if they could get married at the mall? Does Kanye even have time to […]

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Welcome to the New YoRapper

Okay it’s 3:03 am in the morning and I’ve hacked together this new design building on the old one. The home page in particular was bothering me because I felt we looked too “worldstar”, where I believe our power lies in the shit we say. I am sorry I strayed away from my original objective […]

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Does 50 Cent’s Charity Hurt His Image?

50 Cent has been on a charitable drive recently with his energy drink Street King providing 2.5 million meals to help fight hunger in Africa. ABC News did a segment on Fifty’s time in Somalia where he was on a U.N. sanctioned mission (so you know it’s real). One of the themes of the report […]

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Is Wale the Worse Performer in Hip Hop?

In the span of a few months I was fortunate to check out a bunch of shows from The Throne, J. Cole, Juicy J, Tyga, Asher Roth, Sean P and Wale. What struck me the most out of all the shows, besides Juicy J being the best performer I’ve ever seen, is that Wale is […]

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50 WAYS TO BE A LAME RAPPER

1. Make a song purposely for “girls” called “(insert blank) Girl”. 2. Have the word “fly”, “swag”, “hot”, “baller”, “money”, “stuntin” in the title of your song. 3. Buy beats from the “producer of the moment”. 4. Tell your local producer that you need a “Lex Luger style” beat 5. Adopt Rick Ross’ flow from […]

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Ex-Factor Recap: He Likes Boys

I can’t say I’m disappointed with tonight’s Ex-Factor, other than L.A. Reid not choosing Phillip Lomax (the guy that does the killer Sinatra impression). I will say that tonight’s episode showcased the power of raw talent, particularly in the girls category. It’s pretty obvious from the get go, Simon had something for Simone Battle and […]

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I’m Enjoying Ex-Factor But…

First of all major props to the American version of Ex-factor for having two rappers make it to the second round. Even more props to the Ex-Factor for having Pharrell and Rihanna as co-judges. I’m actually impressed in how this is the first singing competition that isn’t only vying for the “adult pop contemporary country […]

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Why I No Longer Care Rick Ross is a Fake

There was a time when this blog had a ban on all Ross material after it was discovered he moonlighted as a corrections officer. As a rap fan, I felt betrayed. It was almost like the day I found out wrestling was fake. But then I realized just because I found out wrestling is fake, […]

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