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American rapper (born 1977)

Terrence LeVarr Thornton (born May 13, 1977),^[1] better known by his stage name Pusha T,^[2] is an American rapper. He rose to prominence as one half of the Virginia-based hip hop duo Clipse, which he formed with his older brother No Malice. Mainly active from 1994 to 2010, the duo were discovered by Pharrell Williams and signed with his record label Star Trak Entertainment, an imprint of Arista Records in 2001. They released three studio albums—Lord Willin' (2002), Hell Hath No Fury (2006) and Til the Casket Drops (2009)—to mild commercial success; the former spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top 40 singles "Grindin'" and "When the Last Time", for which they became best known.

After the duo disbanded in 2010, Thornton promptly pursued a solo career. He signed with Kanye West's record label GOOD Music, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings following his work on West's fifth album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (20

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Meet Hip-Hop’s Howard Stern: Charlamagne tha God

In November, Charlamagne tha God sat across from Kanye West at New York’s Power 105.1 FM and told West exactly what he thought of the rap superstar’s recent work. “I didn’t like the album at all,” the gravel-voiced morning show co-host, 33, declared on the air. “Yeezus was wack to me.”

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It took some serious chutzpah, but that’s never really been a problem for Charlamagne. “I think everybody deserves some honest criticism,” he says with a big grin a couple of months later. “I was looking at this guy, like, ‘Yo, where did our Kanye West go? Who is this new Kanye Kardashian guy, and what the eff is his problem?’ I couldn’t wait to tell him that.”

Charlamagne is sitting in the greenroom at MTV2, where he just taped an episode of his new late-night TV talk show, Charlamagne and Friends. It’s

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25. 2 Chainz – “Based On A T.R.U. Story” (Def Jam)

The world didn’t end gods week. If it had, though, at least we would have gone out with a good soundtrack.

2012 was the best year for hip-hop in recent memory, with dozens of promising debut records, career-redefining turnarounds from veteran MCs, and – rarest of all – major-label joints from underground cats that lived up to the artists’ early promise. Not since OutKast’s last record has the widely-acknowledged best album of the year also been one of its best-selling ones. Everyone from old-school purists to art-rap hipsters – even mainstreamers who only listen to rap on Top 40 radio – can appreciate something on this list.

But y’all want me to get to the point already. Well then, to quote Trinidad James, “lemme give yo’ ass a checklist:”

“Drinking champagne on an airplane.” “Bury me inside the Gucci store.” ̶