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12 years ago today September 2nd, 2005
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Chief Keef turns 25 today. 25. Somehow he’s only 25 but has influenced 3 new generations of rappers. That’s insane.
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Pretty crazy Dr. Dre made all three of these guys superstars within a 10 year period
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Twista's sign language interpreter hitting every single word he fires off on stage is 10/10 content. She needs a Guinness World Record
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10 years ago today… Chief Keef, King Louie & Lil Durk’s concert at Chicago’s Congress Theater, where they opened for Meek Mill. The Alderman and CPD would eventually shut down the show. It was the last time they performed together in Chicago.
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Diddy’s houses being raided on the anniversary of “Kick In The Door” is insane
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On this day in 1997, Life After Death was released.
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Common & Kanye. 2005. Important.
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Before Twitter disappears, I’d like to share this video one final time. It remains the best video on the internet.
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Nas had the “Many Men” beat first but never finished it. D12 had “In Da Club” but passed. “Back Down” & “Heat” were meant for Rakim’s Aftermath album that never dropped 50 took a bunch of leftovers and made one of the most successful rap albums of all time. A monster of a debut.
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19 years ago today, 50 Cent released his debut album Get Rich or Die Tryin’. The album sold 872,000 copies first week and has sold over 8.4 million copies in total 💿
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New Pusha T snippet sounding amazing 🥶😬… it’s close
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🤯🤯🤯 Pusha T & Ye produced by 88 Keys. Allegedly.
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Krayzie Bone is on the road to recovery! 🙏🙏🙏
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Kanye couldn’t get Lauryn Hill’s vocal sample cleared for “All Falls Down” so Ye & John Monopoly flew down to Miami & went door to door looking for her. She eventually cleared her vocals, then denied. Syleena Johnson came in at the literal last minute & re-sang it saving the song
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Kanye West dropped The College Dropout eighteen years ago today.🐻
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Fun Fact: on top of once holding the Guinness World Record for being the fastest rapper on the planet, Twista is also a world class ventriloquist
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May I present to you: the Freshman Class of 2003
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Gonna learn how to do this while on quarantine
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Only took a decade of video interview confessions to make this happen. RIP Tupac.
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the story of Mariah Carey getting Ol' Dirty Bastard on the "Fantasy (Remix)" is a 10/10 and could honestly be made into a movie (via @billboard )
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Jeremih is off the ventilator, out of ICU and has been transferred to a regular hospital room!!! 🙌🏼🙌🏼
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Happy 22nd birthday to "Return of the Mack" -- a.k.a. the greatest song of all time
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the time Dame Dash caught a jeweler selling unauthorized Roc chains “No one buys Roc chains, I give them out”
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Twista, who is now a competitive shooter and certified gun instructor, performs “Overnight Celebrity” at the gun range using the weapons as the beat
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how is this song 20 years old but still sounds like it’s from the future?
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Nipsey just won a Grammy. His family came to the stage to accept the award. 😢😢😢 The Marathon Continues
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he said "my greatest flex is that I made 'A Milli' feel like I'm Bangladesh" Sheesh. That's a bar I can't believe was just sitting there all this time.
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Team DREAMVILLE
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J. Cole went CRAZY on this new song with Lil Yachty 🔥🔥😮‍💨
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Virgil’s influence… Thank you for everything.
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At the video shoot, Bun B asked Pimp C why he was wearing a fur coat in 90-degree Miami weather and Pimp C responded: "TV ain't got no temperature" 😭🤣
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On this day in 2000, Big Pimpin' was released.
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Pusha T confirms his new album is produced entirely by The Neptunes and Kanye West and that “There’s no album that’s better than mine this year.” I believe him.
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sometimes i lay awake at night thinking about the time R. Kelly turned the "National Anthem" into a steppers set
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Jay had the game figured out all the way back in 1996. Incredible foresight.
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During Noname’s Tiny Desk performance she brought out Saba & Smino to reunite the Ghetto Sage supergroup and perform a new song 🔥
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Scarface doing “Mary Jane” on Tiny Desk is incredible 🔥😵‍💫😶‍🌫️
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Tyler came through with the 🚤
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Chicago shit. (Via @defjam )
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jay-z, kanye & eminem all dropped their debut albums at 26. don't subscribe to this.
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On Christmas Eve 2006, MF DOOM hosted a night of Holiday programming on Adult Swim. The bumpers were legendary:
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Silk Sonic, Lucky Daye & BJ The Chicago Kid perform “Candy Rain” & “Every Little Step” at Grammy Afterparty at Delilah
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vic absolutely destroyed the "hiiipower" instrumental
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Freddie Gibbs continues to raise the bar. He destroys this beat 🔥🔥🔥
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Never forget Missy Elliott had a fish tank chair. Happy 50th to one of the greatest to ever do it.
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RIP DJ Screw. November 16, 2000. His tapes were so popular, Screw had to install a front gate to keep people out of his house & control customer flow. He'd have cars lined up for blocks. Houston PD searched his house numerous times after receiving complaints from neighbors.
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15 years ago we lost Pimp C At 16, Chad Butler was a classically trained musician who sang Italian sonnets at Carnegie Hall in NYC. He received a Division I rating as a tenor & trumpet player in high school Later in high school he taught himself how to produce rap music by ear
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Congrats to A Tribe Called Quest for being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Class of 2024
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10/10 most chicago thing I’ve ever seen
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Kanye went from selling beats for $500 to $30,000 in the span of a year. You can do it too.
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It’s 2023 and we still don’t have the ‘tour bus’ song from Lil Wayne & Currensy 😔 🚌
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RIP Datpiff -- who probably has the most important archive of music from the past 10-15 years anywhere on the internet. It was a bridge between the blog era and the streaming era -- and a hub for projects that will never see the light of day on DSPs. Thank you for your service.
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On December 2nd, 2003, Twista and Kanye West dropped “Slow Jamz” feat. Jamie Foxx. The release would be the first number one single for all three artists
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When @chancetherapper shouts you out after winning his first Grammy. Amazing day!! #Grammys
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Chief Keef & ASAP Rocky’s “Superheroes” was crazy
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Now that the world knows Twista is a ventriloquist, they also need to know that his 'dummy' is named Tiny Twista and can rap as fast as he can...
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This E-40 & Jay-Z embrace is specifically very important to me 🐐 🐐
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Ghostface rapping over Hov’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” sounds perfect. Especially when you consider Just Blaze made that beat for Ghost — Jay just grabbed it first (the beat file was initially named Ghostface)
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Never forget about this Christmas miracle:
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this is still the best video on the internet
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Master P was buying his artists houses and cars as non-recoupable signing bonuses. The industry definitely didn’t want him keep winning.... too big of a threat 😤
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RIP DJ Screw. November 16, 2000. Screw tapes were so popular, he had to install a front gate to keep people out of his house & control customer flow. He'd have cars lined up for blocks. Houston PD searched his house numerous times after receiving complaints from neighbors.
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January 6, 2012… Rick Ross. Drake. French Montana. “Stay Schemin”
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10 years ago today, Kendrick Lamar broke the floor at the legendary SXSW party The Illmore, while performing “m.A.A.d. city” — one of the wildest performances I’ve ever seen…
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Alchemist & Prodigy in the lab creating “Hold You Down”
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i remember this mixtape crashed DatPiff and had something crazy like 2 million downloads in an hour. crashing a mixtape site? man, that era seems ancient now. good times.
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Seven years ago today @MeekMill made the leap to stardom with his mixtape ‘Dreamchasers 2’. The track list looks like an album with features from Drake, Big Sean, Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, Travis Scott, and 2 Chainz amongst others. What’s your favorite track?
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Never forget this mixtape crashed DatPiff and had something like 2 million downloads in a half hour. Crashing a mixtape site feels like ancient times now, but that was like the 2012 equivalent of going platinum in a week…
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Meek Mill’s ‘Dreamchasers 2’ turns 10 years old today...
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Prodigy's story about the night he went clubbing with Lindsay Lohan in Manhattan with $30 in his pocket is my favorite Prodigy story RIP
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What happens when Dipset plays this? #VERZUZ
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Chief Keef performing “Faneto” at the BET Awards
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MF DOOM (then known as Zev Love X) performing “Gas Face” alongside 3rd Bass on The Arsenio Hall show in 1990
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October 2006… Lil Wayne announces Curren$y as the first artist signed to Young Money Entertainment (Vibe Magazine)
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Everyone rise for our national anthem 🇺🇸
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15 years ago, Lil Wayne announced Curren$y as the first artist signed to Young Money Entertainment (Vibe Magazine, October 2006)
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Pimp C: 12/29/73 - 12/4/07 By 16, Chad Butler was a classically trained musician who’ d sang Italian sonnets at Carnegie Hall. He also received a Division I rating as a tenor & trumpet player in high school Later in high school, he taught himself how to produce rap music by ear
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Please rise for the singing of our national anthem 🇺🇸
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The time Kanye won a BET Award over Lil Wayne, and brought Wayne on stage and called him his “fiercest competition.” “You scare me, man” 🤝 🏆 ( @cazassustweets )
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MF DOOM FOREVER July 13, 1971 - October 31, 2020
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MF DOOM FOREVER July 13, 1971 - October 31, 2020
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Kanye has just won 2 Grammys
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Bronson smoked this. "Hoppin' out the rover, parrot on my shoulder"
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MF DOOM FOREVER July 13, 1971 - October 31, 2020
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On this day in 2006, Clipse gave us ‘Hell Hath No Fury.’ Produced entirely by The Neptunes. Classic album. Universally respected. A perfect rating from XXL Magazine.
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Lil Wayne doing “Let The Beat Build” on MTV Unplugged was incredible
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Your yearly reminder that a whole other version of this album exists with Wayne over all Mannie Fresh production. After Mannie left Cash Money over financial disputes, he took the beats and sold some of them to other artists. Wayne then redid the album with outside producers.
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On this day in 2005, Lil Wayne released Tha Carter II.
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Tupac performs “Dear Mama” at the annual Death Row Records Mother’s Day Luncheon (1996)
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Kanye West’s “Ten Beat Commandments” - The Source Magazine (October, 2002)
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Cam’ron jumped on that Yachty & J Cole “The Secret Recipe” beat 🔥🔥
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Master P signed him to No Limit in 2001. Then he was the first artist Lil Wayne signed to Young Money in 2006. Dame Dash signed him to his first post-Rocafella label, DD172. He was a founding father of the Blog Era and is still relevant in 2023. It's time for a documentary.
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Gotta give Curren$y his flowers There's not too many people committed to their craft like him All these projects and more.. 🫡
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The same day Harlem World dropped in 1997, Ma$e introduced the world to Cam’Ron on Rap City. The rest is history…
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On this day in 1997, Ma$e released Harlem World.
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I had no idea Three 6 Mafia’s “Poppin’ My Collar” was actually a remake of a song by Alabama rapper The Last Mr. Bigg. They bought it from him and kept him on the hook 🤯 (via drtysouf on IG)
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30 years ago today… Souls of Mischief. 93 ‘Til Infinity. Timeless. Classic. One of the best songs ever created.
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Snoop absolutely has had the wildest rap career in history. He survived the East vs. West beef, beat a murder case, escaped Suge Knight. Signed w/ Master P, was a pimp, an actor, had a MTV show. Dropped a reggae album and a TV show with Martha Stewart Now he's a gospel singer
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Paul Wall once jumped on a Kanye West song and said "The disco ball in my mouth insinuates I'm ballin." He's forever goated.
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I still love this video of Timbaland helping Kanye beef up the beat for "Stronger." He fixed those drums expeditiously HBD GRADUATION!
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Nas had “Many Men” first but never finished it. D12 had “In Da Club” but didn’t want it. Many of these beats were used for Rakim’s Aftermath debut that never came out. 50 took a bunch of music people passed on and made it one of the most successful rap albums of all time.
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50 Cent released Get Rich Or Die Tryin' on this day in 2003.
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This was the image used to create the album cover. DOOM paused his VHS copy of a Fantastic Four cartoon and had Lord Scotch trace it and recreate it. The image was Doctor Doom on a microphone in a helicopter.
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MF DOOM’s debut studio album ‘Operation: Doomsday’ dropped 24 years ago today!
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herb is incredible, idc. he killed this funk flex freestyle.
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Fun Fact: Kanye West sent Lil Wayne so many beats for Carter 3 that Wayne told him to stop sending them. He ended up only using two on C3 (although many more leaked)
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Lil Wayne released Tha Carter III on this day in 2008.
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Lupe Fiasco's longtime mentor and 1st & 15th label partner, Charles “Chill” Patton, has been released from prison after serving 16 years. He was sentenced to 44 years back in 2007. Today he walked out of the Dixon Correctional Center in Dixon, IL.
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Pusha T album incoming !? 👀👀
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this new @chancetherapper sounds so 🔥🔥🔥
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Trump officially pardoned Lil Wayne and Kodak Black
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I talk about this song a lot. But never forget when Fredo Santana & Kendrick Lamar gave us this…
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