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Swag-splashing newspapers
2008-05-07 06:55:00
“Combine Passion with character and muscle. Operate with a sense of swagger that YOU are the city…”–Lee Abrams, Tribune Co. We read so much rap crap, we automatically associate swagger with a rapper explaining the ineffable appeal of his shitty verses. So this is a nice change of pace, associating swag with the ineffable salvation (and ...
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Sports columnists who rhyme
2008-05-05 18:03:00
How to make readers say UNNGGGGH!, without Master P: type Game 4 is off da hook.
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Become Wisconsin?s Poet Laureate in 5 short days
2008-05-05 00:47:00
Since it’s sunny out, Madison and Milwaukee will soon welcome that con-artist who preys on underage scribblers and senile pedestrians with long-forgotten literary dreams. If you happen to encounter someone who looks he just got his best friend’s organic farm repossessed (and feels NO REMORSE) selling guaranteed placement of poems or short stories in his ...
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Perez is so hot right now
2008-04-30 20:54:00
LOneLygay gossip Perez Hilton will soon syndicate his doodles via Hot 97, the New York station synonymous with commercial rap radio–just in time for the mass outing.

Rap casting call
2008-03-27 21:19:00
Please email me if you are one of the two people who read this blog who I haven’t met in person and somehow have semi-literate opinions about rap and hip-hop that you would like Russian bootleggers to be able to read. Copyright Curtis is nominally intended as my personal blog and 50 Cent fanzine, but ...
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Shilv alums: MP-Free-Js
2008-03-17 19:45:00
Scott debuted “Untimely Ript” with the aid of a USB turntable. Creative anachronism! Quincy Hoist resumed blurbing sendspaced sets with crypto-babble… about St. Patty’s day donkeys. Hastings relaunched Copyright Curtis, his text-free 50 Cent fanzine, to claim he invented backpack rap.
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Marc Jacobs is Fabolous
2008-02-13 22:19:00
The rapper with the ever-tweezed ‘brows, …is making his rounds. He’s rolling out a full clothing line with Yung Rich Society, so he needs to be seen. Which means showing up at the screening of the documentary Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton at the Tribeca Grand…. his thoughts on Jacobs: “He’s not the most attractive-looking man,” ...
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Punchline drunk love: my friend from Jersey will be pleased someone actuall
2008-01-23 07:00:00
So we shouldn’t do this anymore? Last year, I forgot to submit my ballot. This year, I forgot to rationalize my capricious point allocation. Defenses, tracks, and backpedaling will appear @ LCD rap schism on Thursday. Favorite ‘07 single by a college dropout, after the jump. Rich Boy, “Let’s Get This Paper”
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Nothing to do with James Murphy
2008-01-16 12:21:00
Shiv/Shill/Shine now has an ugling duckling sister site. Click below to:
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Tomorrow AM
2007-12-19 23:10:00
…certain members of the Shilv editorial board, too ADD to assemble listicles to date, will attempt a la carte amends. You may want to… …“Duck” Share This
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Perpetual Pop Fest
2007-11-12 09:15:00
Madison Pop Fest extends the weekend through Monday (11/12) to commemorate the birth of Sun Yat-Sen. Shiv/Shill/Shine is delighted to help honor the original ROC boy at a MoCo Market-hosted wrap party: DIY sushi workshop and Tofutti tasting will be followed by the firebreathing improvisational raps of our own publicist, MC Shillery Clinton. Logistical info and ...

?fiends slept in front of my crib for 2 days straight, like i had the iPhon
2007-11-09 21:58:00
At the preliminary round of Madison’s ‘07 hip-hop producer battle, Streets of Gold’s Arthur Richardson mentioned that he’d met up with Dipset A&R Duke Da God while chaperoning(?) Crushin’ All Forces through the local dance group’s triumphant appearance on BET’s 106 and Park. Richardson passed along beat CD’s laced by Madison producers, and said something ...
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King Club on Crank
2007-10-28 21:50:00
A few nights ago, a Shiv/Shill/Shine correspondent spent some time at the preliminary Beat Battle round. We won’t say much about it until a dedicated rap blog emerges under the shilv.org umbrella, but there was a commendable minimum of this is that real hip-hop hectoring, which doesn’t hold water when the most-cited credential in the ...
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Wall to Wall
2007-10-23 18:24:00
Chris Brown ft. Joe Budden (via nah right) East side of Mother Fool’s, 10/21 By “ater the great,” if that wasn’t clear This bricks n’ mortar social networking is rather lame. Especially thrown up on a permission wall, in lieu of finishing the piece. But it worked! From his MySpace, we learn ater may have tagged Iraq, ...
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Talking to Mac Lethal like Kilgore Trout
2007-10-16 10:26:00
Two days after the Freedom From Religion Foundation wrapped its ‘07 convention in Madison, the Barrymore will host a Kansas City MC whose next single will likely be a track called “Jihad!” Think “Jesus Walks” recast by an ADD atheist who drinks Christopher Hitchens under the table and limbos over Jerry Falwell’s grave. It’s not a ...
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Waiting to inhale
2007-10-15 03:10:00
Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Devin the Dude ft. The Coughee Brothaz, Bukue One, and Junk Science ft. Iller than theirs hit the High Noon Saloon October 28th. We’re running behind schedule on the preview, so for now, check our old interview with Del, circa an ‘06 ghostwriting fixation. Del, on the penmanship of cousin Cube: All ...
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for a paolotini, mix malibu, pineapple, debbie does dallas?
2007-10-12 10:27:00
While preparing to interview Kidz in the Hall–to preview their ill-fated opening slot for Redman’s Madison show–I ran across a blog post by the group’s MC, Naledge. Among his “July Guilty Pleasures” were vintage porn, fine cubic zirconia, and crystal light. Playing dumb while encouraging further disclosure of embarrassing shit wasn’t too successful, but here ...
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archival footage: ?uestlove Q&A
2007-10-09 18:54:00
A gang of interview material accumulated during the heyday of my old hip-hop blog, Emcees Without Voices, will find slowly its way into the Shiv/Shill/Shine archives, either as a complete transfer or repost. Some untranscribed ultramagnetic tape may finally surface, but let’s kick this off by revisiting an ‘06 Q&A with Roots’ drummer ?uestlove… That?s how ...
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?Prices crazy-high for you to give up loosies a lot?
2007-10-05 12:20:00
Do Not Affect A Breezy Manner: The breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.–“Strunk and White” We’ll refrain from posting whimsical AIM exchanges, but hopefully 1/1000 of everything ...
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Actually? Kanye friends w/ Ellen, so?
2007-10-03 15:26:00
The previous post? Clearly all wrong. Seems an album-buyer called Kanye out during a ‘Ye University YouTube lecture–and another commenter set the record straight: Why does Kanye have to be a lesbian in order to use dyke in any of his songs? Doesn’t make sense. I definitely wouldn’t call him wanting a blond dyke (Stronger) ...
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?Kanye West really likes dykes??
2007-10-02 21:20:00
I?m on a world tour with Common my man after each and every show, a couple dykes in the van. –?The Glory,? Graduation So we goin’ do everything that Kan like Heard they’d do anything for a Klondike Well I’d do anything for a blonde dyke And she’ll do anything for the limelight And we’ll do anything ...
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?MTV rapper/producer VMA twitter feed,? a one-act play
2007-09-28 00:23:00
KanYeWest: ya, so Ye watches the hills. And? 09:43 PM August 13, 2007 from web Timbaland: ABOUT TO GO TO THE GYM AND WORK OUT 08:07 PM September 06, 2007 from txt SouljaBoy_VMA: Im still in the arcade yuuuaa 05:24 PM September 07, 2007 from txt SouljaBoy_VMA: I just met up wit ...
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Redman canceled
2007-09-21 15:43:00
Tickets refunded at point of purchase, etc., etc. We’ll have to get back to those who we notified re: “winning.” Ack. No satire here: Woke up intending to post some Kidz in the Hall interview outtakes to further preview the matter. On the plus side, we now have time to cut through a lingering Blatzian ...
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Crunk Coda: Mark Ronson weighs in on Kanye/50 1st week sales?
2007-09-20 06:04:00
…concludes Lil Jon won. Ripped from his East Village Radio podcast. Mark Ronson : I know somebody that only drank Vitamin Water for like a week–and had like, terrible, terrible diarrhea. Seriously, I don’t know if it was the Kelly Clarkson one, or the 50 Cent one, or what it was– Fader guy: You’ve gotta have some rough-age MR: You’ve ...
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How to roll a blunt
2007-09-17 08:24:00
To commemorate the launch of Shiv/Shill/Shine, we’re giving away a pair of tickets to the Madison Redman/Akir/Kidz in the Hall show on Friday @ the Barrymore. Later this week, we’ll tell you how we attempted to insinuate to Kidz in the Hall producer Double-O that he’d sampled Vanessa Carlton–and how google would’ve spared us the ...
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When I was on the pipe?
2007-09-17 05:17:00
A gang of archival material will be up shortly, but for now, let’s revisit a couple moments in parallel-piped Clipse stannery from the past few years. ‘05 Coreweekly year-end music wrap-up: And from ‘06, a paragraph that thankfully did not grace the final draft of a piece on P. Diddy’s house of ghost rhyme-fluffers, but lives on ...
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Simon Says 'go to the music blogger panel at the High Noon tonight'
2007-06-27 02:00:00
You sold platinum 'round the world... my blog sells wood in the hood. But when I'm drinking at the High Noon, then sh*t it's all good For more embarrassing music blog non sequiturs, get to the High Noon by 5:30. Official invite here. ...
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Lowriding on Library Mall: cameraphone pics from Hip-Hop Revival
2007-06-23 02:00:00
I was stuck working in Memorial Libra ry , but abandoned my computer for a few minutes to take the following @ the Elements of Change Hip-Hop Revival. Excuse the dearth of performance shots--the computer was calling (and, umm, while the breakers broke, I was waiting in line for a free turkey burger). Library mall festivities ended around 5pm, but there's going to be an after party @ the Lussier Teen Center--located here. [Updated: Heard Roberto ...
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Q&A: Comedian Eugene Mirman
2007-06-14 02:00:00
The Madison A.V. Club lauded "Eugene Mirman's knack for randomness, subtle wordplay, and utter lack of traditional schtick" teasing Mirman's performance tonight [9pm, $12] @ Cafe Montmartre by saying... his stand-up sets and his web videos function as ingeniously crafted personal goof-off sessions. It can take a few tries to get on his absurdist wavelength, but once you do, there's no going back. Mirman's responses to some random questions we posed via email are below. Video goof-off sessions linked to where germane. ====
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El Guante's advice to the inaugural class of UW's First Wave Program
1970-01-01 00:59:00
A billion things have already been written about the UW's First Wave program, and the Line Breaks series that sort of laid the groundwork (in terms of heightening anticipation, bridging academy and community). This is a gross generalization, of course, but where Line Breaks showcased nationally prominent practioners of the "hip-hop arts" on ...
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