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I’ll take your Kanye West death rumor & raise you a “Shut up, Twitter.”
Ha ha ha, very funny! Except, it’s not, you silly bastards. 2009 might not be the year to spread celebrity death rumors, you know? Not that me and my staff of none possess the sort of righteousness required to shame people into ending their premature Internet grave-dancing, but we’ll be damned if we’re going to join in it. It’s a little morbid, even for us. Listen, Kanye West ain’t going nowhere anytime soon no matter how badly some of us you want him to sit down. Kanye West will continue to make music and headlines and mischief at award shows in perpetuity, which means FOREVER. You hear that? Forever and ever and ever. When it’s all said and done it will be him, a gang of cockroaches and Wall-E. Because they are both robots. Robots must be dismantled but they cannot die. This is science.
Kanye West Death Hoax: “You goin’ too far!” (c) Ye — Miss Info
Yes, Homeaux.
Hip-Hop owes Cam’ron, whether it would like to admit it or not. Thank you, Cam’ron. “Of course, the straight guy who types ‘no homo’ with impunity isn’t the best person to argue that ‘no homo’ is unoffensive to gays. According to another IGN poster, ‘no homo’ is ‘pretty wrong, kinda like saying i could go for a watermelon, “no negro.”‘” — “How Censoring “No Homo” Will Help Hip-Hop” Amanda Hess / Washington City Paper
Who were your favorite bizarrely-dressed rap associates in 2009?
“Sweet levitating Christ, What is this?” you wondered all of 2009, as you reflected upon that faraway time when we questioned Puff Daddy and his crew of Shiny Suit Warriors. Good times, those. But no more. Recent months have given way to a new strain of atrociously dandy fashion choices within Hip-Hop. You have here Lil’ Wayne and his Smedium Money crew, who like to sing in auto-tune and laugh at their own jokes. Then there’s Kanye West and his merry band of Mariannes, who all made a big colorful statement early this year at Paris Fashion Week, and that statement was “Beat me up.” Fashion is all about standing out from the rest of us common folks, declaring to the world that you are cooler-than-thou and therefore confident enough to look like a complete asshole and suffer no repercussions which, of course, is the true essence of Hip-Hop–simply not giving a fuck.
Tweet for the cause: #RapperSpeakTranslated
Ever sit through an interview on WorldStar Hip-Hop and think to yourself “Oh my gee! What does this hip, foolish rap person really mean?” If your confusion has ever lead to countless sleepless nights trying to decipher convoluted rap-speak, then look no further than the clever and immensely useful #rapperspeaktranslated trend on Twitter. Below is a list of favorites: