August 07, 2013
Jay Z and Kanye West may have gone from the block to the Basel, but have they alienated their core audience along the way?
Jay Z and Kanye West may have gone from the block to the Basel, but have they alienated their core audience along the way?
Whether you’re waiting on a desolate G-train platform or crossing the Williamsburg Bridge on the J, it’s easy to let your mind
wander on the MTA. Eventually, you can’t help but wonder: if this line was a
rapper, who would it be?
When Notorious B.I.G. posed one of the most famous rhetorical questions in hip-hop history—"What's Beef?"—I wonder if he had any idea that the answer would one day be "syntax and intellectual property." But syntax and intellectual property were certainly at the heart of Ludacris's beefy new diss record aimed at younger rappers Drake and Big Sean.
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