Relax (Audio CD)

Relax (Audio CD)
By Das Racist

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First tagged by C. Tran "Born in the form of 85, raised in the city of rain and suicide...206 up!"
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Pop-rap experimentalists Das Racist, like Atlanta-based hip hop group Tag Team, are 'back again,' riding
the wave of success garnered from the two free mixtapes they released in 2010, with their sprawling,
visionary cyberdelic, Black Eyed Peas-ian epic tone poem of a debut album, RELAX. Featuring production
from El-P, Vampire Weekend's Rostam, Yeasayer's Anand Wilder, Drake songwriter Francis Farewell
Starlite, Diplo and cameos from beloved Detroit rap eccentric Danny Brown, underground hip-hop legend
El-P and the ever-reclusive tiny genius rapper Despot, the album is almost exactly like Kanye West's My
Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy in every conceivable way.

The album is the first of several anticipated releases on Illuminati wunderkind and member Himanshu
Suri's own label Greedhead Music. With sales projections at an estimated 100,000 units, grossing roughly
one million dollars, it will still only do one fourth as well as Kanye West's College Dropout, but at least will
afford members Heems, KOOL A.D., and Dapwell to pursue their own individual projects so that they can
finally put this horrible nightmare of a band to rest and remain friends with each other. Read more

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The Wonder Years (Audio CD)

The Wonder Years (Audio CD)
By 9th Wonder

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After years of speculation and delays, multi-platinum, Grammy award winning producer 9th Wonder is set to release his long awaited solo album The Wonder Years on September 27th. The former Little Brother member brings a star-studded cast to the album that includes Erykah Badu, Raekwon, Talib Kweli, Murs, Mac Miller, Saigon, Kendrick Lamar, Warren G, Big K.R.I.T, Pharoahe Monch, Marsha Ambrosius, Skyzoo, Big Remo, Rapsody, and former Little Brother groupmate Phonte Coleman. In addition to a string of critically acclaimed albums with Little Brother, as well as a number of collaborative projects with Murs and Buckshot, 9th Wonder has also produced for some of the biggest stars in the world, a list that includes Jay-Z, Destiny's Child and Erykah Badu. 9th Wonder's cultural influence goes well beyond reaching fans through his music. The producer is currently a professor at Duke University, and recently had a documentary entitled The Wonder Year released that followed a year in the life of 9th Wonder. ''If there was ever a better time to express how I feel about hip-hop music, black music, or just music in general...it would be to do it now....on this project. My career has been from the depths of the underground, to the pop charts, but it has always stayed my sound, and what I believed in to be pure...welcome to the Wonder Years,'' says 9th Wonder Read more

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Curtain Call (Audio CD)

Curtain Call (Audio CD)
By Eminem

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Curtain Call includes three new songs--"Fack," "Shake That" (featuring Nate Dogg) and "When I'm Gone"--both written and produced by Eminem. In addition, the Curtain Call bonus track marks the album premiere of the controversial Eminem-Elton John live duet of "Stan" from the 2001 Grammy Awards presentation.

Executive produced by the nine-time Grammy winner, Curtain Call boasts all five of Eminem's gold and platinum singles to date, from the platinum, Oscar, and two-time Grammy-winning "Lose Yourself" (#1 Pop/#2 Rap) from the 8 Mile soundtrack and platinum "Just Lose It" (#6 Pop/#7 Rap) and "Mockingbird" (#11 Pop/#10 Rap) to the gold "Without Me" (#2 Pop/#5 Rap) and "Like Toy Soldiers" (Top 40 Pop). The other Grammy winners included are "My Name Is" (Top 40 Pop/#10 Rap) and "The Real Slim Shady" (#4 Pop/#7 Rap). Also heard are "The Way I Am" (Top 30 Rap), "Stan" (featuring Dido) (Top 40 R&B/Hip-Hop), "Sing for the Moment" (Top 20 Pop/Rap), "Guilty Conscience" (featuring Dr. Dre), and "Cleanin' Out My Closet" (#4 Pop/#5 Rap).

Curtain Call: The Hits spans contributions from all four of Eminem's major-label solo albums: 1999's quadruple-platinum The Slim Shady LP, 2000's nine-times-platinum The Marshall Mathers LP, 2002's eight-times-platinum The Eminem Show, and 2004's Encore, which is almost five times platinum. The three most recent charted #1 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop, with his major-label debut #2 Pop and #1 R&B/Hip-Hop. Each of his first three albums also won the Best Rap Album Grammy (Encore will be eligible for the 2006 presentation). Eminem has to date sold more than 65 million albums.Eminem's four studio albums shattered so many sales records that you might think just about every man, woman and gerbil on the planet already owns a bulk of the songs that make up this greatest hits collection. But Curtain Call presents the perfect opportunity to have another look at the life of Marshall Mathers. Starting out in the vein of the Beastie Boys and Slick Rick, he grafted filthy verses over bubbly nursery rhyme melodies and primitive Casio beats to come up with comical singles like "My Name Is" and "Real Slim Shady." Then angst and reflection set in, resulting in rare moments of vulnerability ("Lose Yourself") and a richer musical experience ("Stan"). The three new tracks reflect the entire spectrum, with "When I'm Gone," a bittersweet goodbye letter, signaling the raw emotion and youthful enthusiasm of his early days have substantially faded, while "Fack" counters that the Detroit rapper still has the dirtiest mouth in the business. --Aidin Vaziri Read more

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Late Registration (Audio CD)

Late Registration (Audio CD)
By Kanye West

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For haters eager to see Kanye hit a sophomore slump--no such luck. Late Registration can't replicate the novelty of last year's College Dropout, but otherwise, this is an impressively more mature and labored-over album. Lyrically, Kanye's only improved a notch but musically, the album sounds incredible, especially with co-producer Jon Brion helping polish the songs to perfection. Tracks like "Heard 'Em Say" (featuring Maroon 5's Adam Levine) and "Hey Mama," are richly textured in their soulfulness while the flint-edge of "Crack Music" and "Gone" (feat. Cam'ron) will appeal to the street-oriented. There's a few duds on here--the sickly-sweet, syrupy "Bring Me Down" (feat. Brandy) being one of the worst offenders--but when the album's good, it's very, very good. In short, Kanye's detractors may not be swayed in their resistance to his charms but not only will his past supporters be rewarded but Late Registration has enough appeal to earn new crowds of fans. --Oliver Wang Read more

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The Emperor's New Music (Paperback)

The Emperor's New Music (Paperback)
By Alex Langford

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First tagged by A. Langford "alex-of-cali"
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Anthony Adams has a dream of becoming a star. Fresh out of college, he moves to Hollywood to pursue that dream. But as a legitimate musician in a world of 70s disco, he finds rough going. The popular sounds of Donna Summer soon morph into the world of Run DMC and MC Hammer, and Anthony makes his way to New York to keep his dream alive. But the violent early days of rap threaten not only his career, but his life as well. Read more

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Movies for the Blind (Audio CD)

Movies for the Blind (Audio CD)
By Cage

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Debut album by the American rapper, who is a member of the notoriously nasty hip-hop trio known as the Smut Peddlers Read more

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Life on the Low: Creepin' With Hip Hop (An Erotic Menage Novel) (Kindle Edition)

Life on the Low: Creepin' With Hip Hop (An Erotic Menage Novel) (Kindle Edition)
By ms. downlow

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This book is the same story as "Her Husband Made Her Do Him," with a different cover and title for all you Sexy Book Cover Lovers!

Suicide or an affair? When stunning, conservative, 24 year old, black law student, Katlynne LaSalle discovers that her husband is cheating she nearly flunks out of law school, and begins to have suicidal thoughts. Her husband won't admit he's cheating, and she fears that if she keeps pressuring him, he'll divorce her. She chooses to live life to the fullest and have her own affair with a married Hip Hop and R&B artist who's a lover, not a thug. Together they fulfill naughty threesome sexual fantasies Kat never had before. All this good girl gone bad ever wanted in life was to be in love with one man who is equally committed to her. She likes her black, white, and dull life. But when she finds that her dream has become a nightmare, she makes irrational decisions and spreads her love around, even engaging in threesomes as she begins a vivid down low existence. Also available on Amazon in Kindle and Book form with a different cover and title called "Her Husband Made Her Do Him"

Get the sizzling sequel NOW here on Amazon.com, "Her Husband Made Her Do Him, 2" is the sequel to this book, as well as the sequel to "Her Husband Made Her Do Him."This book is the same story as "Her Husband Made Her Do Him," with a different cover and title for all you Sexy Book Cover Lovers!

Suicide or an affair? When stunning, conservative, 24 year old, black law student, Katlynne LaSalle discovers that her husband is cheating she nearly flunks out of law school, and begins to have suicidal thoughts. Her husband won't admit he's cheating, and she fears that if she keeps pressuring him, he'll divorce her. She chooses to live life to the fullest and have her own affair with a married Hip Hop and R&B artist who's a lover, not a thug. Together they fulfill naughty threesome sexual fantasies Kat never had before. All this good girl gone bad ever wanted in life was to be in love with one man who is equally committed to her. She likes her black, white, and dull life. But when she finds that her dream has become a nightmare, she makes irrational decisions and spreads her love around, even engaging in threesomes as she begins a vivid down low existence. Also available on Amazon in Kindle and Book form with a different cover and title called "Her Husband Made Her Do Him"

Get the sizzling sequel NOW here on Amazon.com, "Her Husband Made Her Do Him, 2" is the sequel to this book, as well as the sequel to "Her Husband Made Her Do Him." Read more

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