Yeah, you went platinum.  But your album SUCKS! 20 Worst Platinum Albums courtesy of the Smoking Section

Somebody has A LOT of time on their hands. From LA Weekly.com the 60 Worst Lines by Lil Wayne from The Carter IV

Might make a good bar arguement. Top 10 Most Intelligent Rappers

Some lists of things we found out and about on this vast interweb thang.

 Miami New Time Times.  Having lived in Miami I can atest that if you live there you know all about getting your drink on.  Top Ten Rap Tracks About Gettin’ Drunk

Denver WestWorld. Coming from the mile high city  to celebrate the 100 year Anniversary of Chevrolet, it 10 songs celebratin Chevys

PasteMagazine.com. Rap songs just aint for rappers you know. Paste has a list of 10 rap covers the love and 10 the want to see (psst.. all these songs aint by rappers though)

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. Plus ten, plus ten more, so guess we should really call this the Quick Hits 30. 

ANYway check out these thirty tidbits we found in the vast internet funland:

Kanye and Jay-Z were supposed to drop their collabo album July 4th. SIKE!  These are 10 Albums that the World Probabbly Won’t See. (HipHop Wired)

Wayne insinuated he might be retire. Check these 10 Rappers who REALLY need to Retire. (HipHop Wired)

Ah, skits–the often excruciating, but sometimes funny bits of magic between album cuts. Here is a list of the 10 Greatest Hip Hop skits. (Village Voice)

Just some things you might wanna to take a look at to help pass the time while you’re supposed to be doing your REAL work at the job.

Complex.com has the 50 Greatest Logos in Hip Hop. See if you recognize a few favorites.

Black Entrerprise has the 11 Most Successful Artist Brands beyond music.

And finally, the fine writers over at Cracked.com bring revealing facts to all those 80′s memories.  6 Beloved 80′s Toys with Horrifying Origins

Looka here,looka here. See what we found just hanging out on the ole computer.

You may agree or not. But its the 10 most overplayed hip-hop songs of the late 90′s.

The list we here at GHz HQ have always waited for somebody to make. When Famous White Girls Rap.

Finally, a list of posses both old and new. What they did, where they went, and were they good

Just some things we found while cruising this vast vast super-info highway.

That right! I Did it! A prisoner serving life admits to shooting Tupac. No not the time in Las Vegas the OTHER time in New York.

Worth the weight? Since Fat Joe lost all that weight some other artist who saw their fortunes change due to their waistlines

Tired of Best buy? Check this list of indie record stores to get your listen on.

A different kind of shiny suit...

The Firm? A little squishy. Blueprint? Back to the drawing board. It looks like Hip Hop’s first billionaire playboy (alter ego notwithstanding) will be Sean Combs.

Folks over at Forbes say astronomical sales of Ciroc Vodka, Sean John clothing and even, we guess, an album or two have pushed the man behind Bad Boy closer to Big Baller status than any other rapper in history.

Read the full article here…

According to his family rapper Nate Dogg has passed. Our prayers go out the family.

Snoop Dogg and DPG react.

Vibe: Gone But Not Forgotten: Nate Dogg’s 15 Greatest Music Appearances

Check this interview the Souls of Mischief did right befor the release of Montezuma’s Revenge

by ALex Dwyer for HipHopDx

In a musical terrain where fans are reduced to digits on a Facebook page, the emphasis on actual face-to-face supporter acquisition has plummeted. Pictures and signed apparel are trumped by @ replies on a Twitter feed and RTs following a performance. Up and coming artists dip out on studio sessions to make sure their follower and friends count stays above one to one.
   
Who better to clap on the lights of reality than a quartet of emcees who have their hard-earned fan base to thank for their fully stocked cabinets and the three-eyed symbol etched tee shirts on their backs? Thanks to their dedication to these fans, Souls of Mischief are 16 years deep into infinity.
   
Mostly devoid of any sort of mainstream success since 1993, Tajai, A-Plus, Opio and Phesto D epitomize the show-by-show, record-by-record tactic that is prescribed by their career’s longevity. For their first album in almost a decade, the original group within the greater Hieroglyphics constituency brought Stetsasonic, Gravediggaz, and De La Soul production wizard Prince Paul into their close-knit fold.
   
Soul’s trademark lighthearted realism, steady rocking, and non-stop touring has branded them as certified veterans of underground Hip Hop. With the Montezuma’s Revenge release in full effect, A-Plus, Tajai and Opio spoke to HipHopDX on what it takes to survive in a group, in Oakland and in Hip Hop. 
 
HipHopDX: Montezuma’s Revenge is out, your first album in years. What do you think of how it turned out and the overall response to it?

Opio: It’s been a long time coming. Souls of Mischief have been out so much on tour, doing records with Hiero and our own solo records but the opportunity to work with Prince Paul, he’s an architect. Working with that dude was a dream come true. People who respect the real foundation of Hip Hop are showing love for this record. We are blessed right now.
 
DX: Did you find that Prince Paul had a big influence on how you guys recorded this album? I noticed that the overall sound of the album was more nuanced than what I was used to hearing from Souls of Mischief.

Tajai: I’m working with one of the best producers in the music game. To have a dude whose records have been so much of a foundation to how we even got to the point where were at, all in a house together, chillin’, playing beats, making songs, that brings out a whole different dimension. I got A-Plus, Opio, Dominio, these are in house production dudes who got hits, slappers. Then you got Prince Paul and these dudes are all living in the same house. We’re living in the same house making music. Music is organic right, so just being there and living with it and letting it grow, that’s how it came out. It was more of living together and we went over a lot of beats.

CLICK HERE FOR THE REST OF THE INTERVIEW

Since he dropped To Serve With Love Spade has some new projects out. A mixtape AND a beat tape here he’s discussing both. Courtesy of beats+crates

Here’s a song off his Build & Destroy mixtape

“i Heart” Black Spade from Drew Jordan on Vimeo.