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BET Awards Honor The Young, The Old, The Dead, And The-Dream

The list of winners from last night's BET Awards is full of fascination and surprise for any nerd who can't help but care. Did the right "feat. T-Pain" win Best Collaboration? (Yes.) Is Missy Elliott doing better than any female artist who actually released an album in the last year? (Lil' Mama was robbed!) Did UGK deserve "Best Group" and "Best Video" more than Playaz' Circle and Ashanti or was it just a tribute to the passing Pimp C? (Both.) Kanye over Lil' Wayne? (Weezy will have to settle for Viewer's Choice.) Chris Brown over Ne-Yo? (A tragic tear under a tilted hat.) More »

3:45 PM on Wed Jun 25 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by Soper: So how exactly does one make the Video of the Year, and NOT be named Video Director of the year? more »

project x

Project X Pits The Family Against The Critics

As part of Idolator's continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Jackin' Pop editor Michaelangelo Matos breaks down rankings from every genre imaginable. After the click-through, he [hilariously] examines the results of the Idolator Pop Critics Poll Tracks Top 10 with some special help:

By now you've seen the critics' lists of the year's best music. But what about the folks who really count—the people? In interest of fairness and balance, I've decided to take the critics' choices to some regular folks. That's right: it's time once again for this column to exploit my family.

11:00 AM on Wed Jan 16 2008
By mmatos
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No. 5: We Choose UGK And Outkast

And for a few minutes, let's all bask in four thirtysomethings showing those soulja boys and girls how it's done.

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Houston So Real has a lengthy chat with Bun B, whose partner in UGK, Pimp C, passed away earlier this week. It's a really great, insightful interview that touches on a ton of subjects, including the two artists' partnership, UGK's breaking out of the Southern hip-hop scene, and Pimp C's love of jazz. [Houston So Real]

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obituaries

R.I.P. Pimp C

TMZ is reporting that Pimp C, one half of Southern rap legends UGK, was discovered dead in a California hotel room this morning at age 33, causes still unknown. More »

3:39 PM on Tue Dec 4 2007
By jharv
5,418 views, 11 comments

who charted

UGK Busts Out Of The Underground

UGK's first album in five years, Underground Kingz, debuted in the top spot on this week's Billboard 200, selling 160,000 copies. The long-delayed Kingz is the duo's highest-charting album, and the 160,000-sold tally is its highest sales week ever. More »

2:05 PM on Wed Aug 15 2007
By mjohnston
371 views, 4 comments

delays

These Days, You May Be Dreaming If You Think Your Album Will Come Out On Time

Yesterday's Houston Chronicle had a piece on delayed hip-hop albums; among the albums profiled is UGK's UGK (Underground Kingz), which after having its release date held up for a year is reportedly going to debut at No. 1 next week. (Who knew that waiting for the bottom to fall out of the CD market would pay off so handsomely?) Also mentioned in the piece is Mike Jones, whose album The American Dream was unceremoniously pushed back to October after vanishing from Atlantic's schedule last month: More »

12:58 PM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By mjohnston
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mp3

Leak Of The Day, Part II: Kanye West Bellies Up To The Bar

In this remix of T-Pain's "Buy U a Drank"—a song that can be heard in its entirety simply by standing on any New York City street corner at any given time—Kanye West not only tweaks Russell Simmons and Reverend Run, he also makes a reference to Amerie, which gives us hope that at least one person will be buying her album: More »

12:05 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Brian Raftery
3,475 views, 2 comments

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