Here’s an interview that Detroit rapper Danny Brown did with the folks at FADER magazine during CMJ in New York this past October. The interview should’ve come out awhile ago but publications are on tight budgets and when you’ve only got one person handling video, things take awhile. Nonetheless, Danny was completely himself chatting...
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Jaws dropped in a Wayne County Circuit Court  Monday morning when Dan Stamper, president of the Detroit International Bridge Co., was handcuffed by sheriff’s deputies and taken to jail after the company, which is owned by billionaire Manuel “Matty” Moroun, was cited for contempt. Along with sending Stamper to jail, Judge Prentis Edwards fined...
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AT 0:06, YOU CAN HEAR THE HELMET-TO-HELMET IMPACT … This football season had plenty of talk about rules and concussions. It’s a serious issue: Plenty of quality NFL quarterbacks have had their careers cut short because of concussions, and even though “hard hits are part of the game,” after a weekend of brutal helmet-to-helmet...
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Congrats to Eminem and his Recovery album for landing the biggest selling album of 2010, according the brand new, year-end Nielson SoundScan reports. We say congrats because the total number flies in the face of myriad comments from internet gimps about Em’s irrelevancy, about how this record was gonna stiff, and hard. Well, hardy...
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Here’s a new video from Michigan emcee Ro Spit for his song “I’ve Arrived.” Considering how much love I gave video guru Gerard Victor for his stellar work in 2010, it’s no surprise that he directed the video for this tune as well. Based on the scenery, it looks like they shot this on...
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Ann Arbor’s Buff1 is grinding it out hard these days. He recently dropped an album with turntable legend DJ Rhettmatic called Crown Royale that’s being received well nationally. And considering the way he’s hovering around longtime friend Mayer Hawthorne in Los Angeles and touring regularly, one gets the impression that 2011 ought to be...
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