Rap music always gets the most attention in hip hop, but as you should know, the culture is much bigger than that. Which would explain why HipHopDX dedicates a section to hip hop lifestyle. Be it movie reviews, video game reviews, interviews with movie stars or eye candy like Vida Guerra or Buffy the Body, we try and give you something other than just hip hop music.

The Kickdrums: The Heart Of It All Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - Jake Paine | Comments: 9

Beck had a chorus about "two turntables and a microphone" around the same year that Black Moon did. Radiohead's Thom Yorke quietly remixed a DOOM single at the top of this year. And how dare we ever talk about Rap and Rock and not mention Rick Rubin or the late, great Paul C.  Quite a few have displayed ambidextrous talents in Hip Hop and Rock, without even getting close to Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit or Korn, who seem to have aged on record shelves less gracefully. Still, the Ohio natives The Kickdrums' debut album Just A Game, is - as the Gang Starr chorus scratched, "one of the...

Baron Davis: Balance And Options Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Omar Burgess | Comments: 7

In perhaps what was Baron Davis’ biggest nationally televised performance at UCLA, CBS commentator Billy Packer watched the young point guard dunk on an opposing team’s center and described him as a fighter. Unlike dozens of Packer’s other pseudo racist, left-handed compliments, such as calling Allen Iverson a “tough little monkey,” this description was accurate. Over a dozen years later, Davis is still fighting. As the starting point guard for the NBA’s perennial doormat, the Los Angeles Clippers, he hopes to bring respectability back to the franchise. In his downtime he teamed up with noted filmmaker Stacy Peralta to make a critically acclaimed documentary about the Bloods...

Cassie: Gossip Girl Tuesday, June 16, 2009 - Kathy Iandoli | Comments: 13

Cassie doesn’t really care what you think. The Connecticut bred model-turned-singer-turned tabloid darling was sucked into the media vortex early when her debut single “Me & U” came complete with a provocative video that was never meant for our eyes. Now three years after her self-titled debut, we’re greeted with naked webcam photos of Cassie that she assures were accidental. Perfect timing to the publicist; awful timing to the artist. While most would cower from the Internet after that, Cassie brushed her shoulders off and kept her Twitter stride strong. Now finishing up her second album Electro Love, enlisting the likes of Pharrell and maybe even Kanye West,...

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