Your Favorite White Boy

Many things in life, it seems, are a young person’s game: sports, hollywood, music – especially hip-hop. It only takes an artist like Souljah Boy to come along – and be big with the “new” generation but not you – to drive home the point that you’re getting old, homey.

Excitement is building across the Internet as Dr. Dre drops not-so-subtle hints that Detox could very well be dropping in 2010. But fans beware – we’ve been down this long and windy road before. All it takes is a quick Google search.

“The Street Say” gathers the verdict on the latest drops from the only place that matters: the streets. In the latest edition, the Thorton Brothers offer their latest shipment in the form of “‘Til The Casket Drops”.

Even though Shawn Carter’s Blueprint 3 was one of the more widely anticipated forth quarter releases, D.C.’s own Wale had a buzz of his own around the October release of his debut album, Attention Deficit. Wale had generated some of the biggest hype of any new artist after releasing two well received mixtapes The Mixtape [...]

Robbie over at Unkut spins a hilarious tale about his overzealous drinking at a recent M.O.P. show. While I strongly suggest you read the entire account, YFWB has a few choice highlights.

Ever since 50 Cent declared his next target would be one Shawn Carter, fans have been clamoring for the rap beef of the century. Bloggers have speculated that given 50’s ruthless nature in battle mode; its easy to see how Curtis would be one of the most formidable opponents Hov has ever faced.

Even though the list was announced a while ago, the hard copy of XXL’s latest issue, featuring the top 100 hip-hop blog sites, hit the racks this week.  Its a pretty good list – much more authentic than the widely dismissed VIBE list from a number of months earlier – and there are a lot [...]