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ATG civil war

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Stank love for album of the aughts?


We've been working on best of lists and formulating this site's second incarnation. We'll be back shortly. Hallelujah holla back.
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Feature: Cowboys heaven

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Photo by Victoria Ramirez for ATG.

A visit to an enormous, expensive football stadium.
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DEF NFL PREVIEW RAW II: The Podcast

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As promised, it's time for bold predictions made with swagger, cojones, and not the slightest tinge of fear.

Our resident, makes-"Baseball Tonight"-promos-working-for-ESPN-up-in-Bristol, namedrop-worthy ace, J. Couch, goes in. I, too, go in. You won't guess our Super Bowl picks.


LISTEN.
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ATG Presents: DEF NFL PREVIEW RAW

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This blog is not about sports, granted. But ATG used to write these previews during college and we think you'd agree the NFL is infinitely more interesting than Kid Cudi.

More importantly, hip-hop, over rivaling genres, is woven with American sports into a two-way, perfectly symbiotic establishment. Michael Phelps shares his affinity for Lil Wayne during his Chinese medal bonanza, then he introduces a Weezy performance at an awards show, then Lil Wayne writes a song about Phelps.

Rappers praise. Athletes listen. Most involved with either love the other and lines are crossed.

There's the justification. Also, I need to switch gears and stop writing about Jay-Z.

Moreover, if you're like the minds behind ATG, you're burning for kickoff extra hard right now. Maybe it's the way things ended last year for Cowboys fans, the brimming excitement behind extra-compelling preseason storylines, the lack of faith in baseball's modern era, the lack of American hegemony in soccer, the fact golf is more interesting when golf balls are neon colored and putts avoid windmills and dinosaurs, or that football provides the most thrilling competitive action available on my off-brand HD TV, but I'm fucking jacked.

Smell the glove here.
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At sunset in the summer with friends

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Sorry we took a long weekend. Ramon was busy starting a life or whatever.

Seriously, though. A thousand congrats, man. Victoria's perfect. All the love in the world.
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Vibe Magazine closes its doors

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The magazine industry is in dire straights, and the web has revolutionized music journalism beyond recognition. Times are hard for the forerunners. It goes without saying that Vibe was a legendary institution that was a breeding ground for some of the finest hip-hop journalism and journalists over the 15 years of its existence. It's ironic that the magazine's most brazen attempt to ride the Internet zeitgeist in the waning years of its relevance, April's "50 Best Hip-hop Blogs" feature, now stands as a showcase for its replacements. As they say, the show must go on.
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Michael Jackson Dead at 50

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The LA Times reports. No words here. Just silence for the undisputed King of Pop.
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ATG Does Bonnaroo

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We've been working on this one for a minute, and it's high time we let the word out. A Thousand Grams has selected Bonnaroo, the sprawling, four-day musical mayhem in the middle-of-nowhere Tennessee, as the second major festival of its inaugural year...
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ATG Flies Again (harder, better, etc.)

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What with all the SXSW madness, we hit a little bump in the proverbial super highway called bandwidth shortage. No matter: chalk it up to growing pains. We're back, and stronger than ever and (pretty) sure that we'll never leave you again. Stay tuned.

Also, we have a new logo.
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Run DMC opens burger joint in Hollis, Queens

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Brilliant venture: a massive regional name, a delicious American staple, the type of place I'd take trains all the way from The Bronx to at least see. Read about this extensively, here, footage after the jump.

Your move, Kurtis Blow bakery.

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