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“Jahlil Beats. Holla at me!” If you didn’t hear those words kick off a song last year, you didn’t listen to rap music. There was no escaping it—the club, the car, the street—especially in Philadelphia.
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“People always ask why I ain’t got a girlfriend,” says Young Chris during a break from working in a Northern Liberties studio. “I tell ’em, ‘Yo, rap’s my girlfriend.’” The North Philly-born rapper’s been devoted to the game since the early 2000s, when his Young Gunz duo with MC Neef Buck was signed by Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records, and their first single, “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop,” was nominated for a Grammy in 2003.
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By Brian McManusOh, hey, remember that time we told you about Philly’s Spacin’ and how you should do yourself the solid of listening to the deep groove of their bong water drenched song “Empty Mind”? Well, it seems the tightly clinched assholes of Pitchfork took our advice. They love the TestostereTunes/Richie Records released Deep Thuds too, and [...]
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