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.)
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.
And for a few minutes, let’s all bask in four thirtysomethings showing those soulja boys and girls how it’s done.
Houston So Real has a lengthy chat with Bun B, whose partner in UGK, Pimp C, passed away earlier this week. More »
Houston So Real has a lengthy chat with Bun B, whose partner in UGK, Pimp C, passed away earlier this week. More »
Houston So Real has a lengthy chat with Bun B, whose partner in UGK, Pimp C, passed away earlier this week. More »
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.
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.
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:
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… More »
