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The Week

commentary and criticism, current affairs, hype & linkage, musicBy Matthias Wivel 18 August 2013

The week in review This week the rap game experienced tremors when Big Sean released the song “Control” online. It featured a verse from the still-young, still gunning Kendrick Lamar on which he not only claimed for himself as many indices of hip hop royalty as he could — ‘Makavelli’s offspring’, the ‘Black Beatle’ or…

2012: The Year in Hip Hop at Rapspot

commentary and criticism, hype & linkage, musicBy Matthias Wivel 6 January 2013

As always, we the people of Rapspot have selected our favorites (as well as the wackest) of the year 2012. The text is in Danish, but check out the list anyway, there’s some good stuff on it and for once I agree with the to highest-scoring records. I hope to write up my own shortlist…