http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes Stay plugged into the A with Creative Loafing's music blog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/09/22/more-rappers-should-change-their-names-a-la-killer-mike/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/09/22/more-rappers-should-change-their-names-a-la-killer-mike/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:57:07 +0000 Ben Westhoff http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=10821 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/09/22/more-rappers-should-change-their-names-a-la-killer-mike/feed/ 1 What other rappers should change their name, you ask? http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/16/gucci-mane-and-young-jeezys-beef-sizzles-again/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/16/gucci-mane-and-young-jeezys-beef-sizzles-again/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0000 Ben Westhoff http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=8147 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2009/06/16/gucci-mane-and-young-jeezys-beef-sizzles-again/feed/ 4 When Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane beef, people die. That's why it is troubling that the two are at it again. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/too-bootleg-for-tv-the-best-rest-of-the-bet-hip-hop-awards/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/too-bootleg-for-tv-the-best-rest-of-the-bet-hip-hop-awards/#comments Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:32:45 +0000 Rodney Carmichael http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/?p=2677 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/10/20/too-bootleg-for-tv-the-best-rest-of-the-bet-hip-hop-awards/feed/ 3 How do you prepare to walk the red carpet at hip-hop’s biggest media event of the year? “I just drunk a few Budweisers,” said Attitude. If you want to see the stuff that's too bootleg for TV, check out our list. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/06/16/spring-break-forever-triumph-is-always-in-part-i/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/06/16/spring-break-forever-triumph-is-always-in-part-i/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:30:41 +0000 negashi armada of supreeme http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/06/16/spring-break-forever-triumph-is-always-in-part-i/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/06/16/spring-break-forever-triumph-is-always-in-part-i/feed/ 4 Ok, so if I remember correctly, in the late ’90s the biggest stars in America were an armada of Nordic Supersoldiers. Acts like 98°, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, ‘N Sync, Backstreet Boys and Christina Aguilera dominated the charts with their vacuous “teen” ballads. Pop music was a future Stepford Wife [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/30/spring-break-forever-hipster-hop-is-um-dead/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/30/spring-break-forever-hipster-hop-is-um-dead/#comments Fri, 30 May 2008 13:34:27 +0000 negashi armada of supreeme http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/30/spring-break-forever-hipster-hop-is-um-dead/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2008/05/30/spring-break-forever-hipster-hop-is-um-dead/feed/ 23 NEW DISCLAIMER!!!!! Remember in my first blog when I said I’d try to express my opinions without getting beat up by some gangster rapper I might run into someday? Well now I’m gonna try and do that without getting beat up by some Hipster rapper that I def will, and HAVE, run into. I know some [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2007/09/12/report-kanye-outselling-fiddy-at-walgreens/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2007/09/12/report-kanye-outselling-fiddy-at-walgreens/#comments Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:47:34 +0000 Mosi Reeves http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2007/09/12/report-kanye-outselling-fiddy-at-walgreens/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/cribnotes/2007/09/12/report-kanye-outselling-fiddy-at-walgreens/feed/ 0 This in from Billboard.com: It looks like 50 Cent is headed for retirement, if store reports continue to trend the way they were by mid-afternoon today (Sept. 11). 50 Cent had told SOHH.com that he would quit the rap game if his new G-Unit/Interscope album, “Curtis,” was outsold by Kanye West’s Def Jam set “Graduation,” both [...]