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March 21, 2011

Advice from a Rapper

Each week, Jessica Wright offers some well-designed advice from some of hip hop's greatest MCs. Motivation til the break-a, break-a dawn!

"In between all of the cussing, Cristal drinking and ass bouncing, in some rap songs, there lies inspirational words of advice to help you get through the day...Get ready, cuz you day's bout to get a whole lot betta. You feel me?"   … read more

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January 03, 2011

CYMKilla: Hip Hop Photoshop Tutorials

created at: 01/03/2011

Face it. It's 2011, and Photoshop tutorials need more street cred.

Enter CYMKilla, the Photoshop master pixel pushin’ eye thrillah, who, along with his crew Masta Bevel,  Filter Phil, DJ Dodge, MC Burn, and Rastorvizer, will get you 'shoppin' right.

 

So crop that tongue and sit back...it's about to get educational.

Check out the vi… read more

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September 23, 2010

Infographic: The Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names

created at: 09/23/2010

Nothing has the potential to be both scarily informative and joyfully hilarious as the infographic. The presentation of lighthearted information in the most serious of flowcharts or graphs simply never gets old. 

So we are, of course, loving this "Grand Taxonomy of Rap Names" from PopChartLab. The designers have arranged "266 sobriquets from the world of rap music" by their lexical and semantic characteristics. The results are visually stunning, quite educational, and all around awesome.

Click through for an expandable (readable) version.   … read more

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