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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead
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Creator, Editor, Writer At-Large, Hip Hop Isn’t Dead / Hip Hop Is Done | Content Curator, RandoMax Radio: https://m.mixcloud.com/RandoMaxRadio/ | http://patreon.com/hiphopisdone | http://hiphopisntdead.blogspot.com
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Max @ Hip Hop Isn’t Dead @hhidmax.bsky.social · Nov 28
For my new followers, a quick rundown of my sites/work that I hope you’ll like:

Hip Hop Isn’t Dead - reviews, silliness hiphopisntdead.blogspot.com

my Patreon - reviews, silliness for $3 USD/month patreon.com/hiphopisdone

and my side project, RandoMax Radio m.mixcloud.com/RandoMaxRadio/

Enjoy!
hip hop isn't dead.
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Shifting the focus to artists you may be surprised to discover released solo albums, let's have a discussion about Infamous Mobb's Big Twins and his solo debut, The Project Kid

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February 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Eightball & MJG's debut studio album, Comin' Out Hard, was released thirty-three years ago but still sounds more authentic than a lot of today's offerings

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February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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the fact that the word “reform” is used here means you are very unserious about actually listening to any of your constituents
schumer.senate.gov Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 3d
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.

We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.

Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Eightball & MJG's debut studio album, Comin' Out Hard, was released thirty-three years ago but still sounds more authentic than a lot of today's offerings

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February 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Five years ago last week, Tha God Fahim teamed up with Your Old Droog for Tha Wolf of Wall St., an eight-song cycle devoted to promoting the importance of hard work, apparently

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February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Five years ago this week, Tha God Fahim teamed up with Your Old Droog for Tha Wolf of Wall St., an eight-song cycle devoted to promoting the importance of hard work, apparently

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January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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this reminds me, I still haven’t watched Caught Stealing and now I don’t feel the need to, so thanks, Darren
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 15d
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'

• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War

• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind

• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

What's that? You wanted six thousand words on Big Shug's debut solo album, Who's Hard?

Ugh, what am I doing with my life?

Also, I got you:

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January 27, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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“… so please stream my new album”
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18d
Ye, fka Kanye West, takes out a full-page in the Wall Street Journal to apologize to the Black community, and for antisemitism:

“I lost touch with reality”
Twenty-five years ago, I was in a car accident that broke my jaw and caused injury to the right frontal lobe of my brain. At the time, the focus was on the visible damage - the fracture, the swelling, and the immediate physical trauma. The deeper injury, the one inside my skull, went unnoticed. Comprehensive scans were not done, neurological exams were limited, and the possibility of a frontal-lobe injury was never raised. It wasn't properly diagnosed until 2023. That medical oversight caused serious damage to my mental health and led to my bipolar type-l diagnosis. Bipolar disorder comes with its own defense system. Denial. When you're manic, you don't think you're sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely. Once people label you as 'crazy', you feel as if you cannot contribute anything meaningful to the world. It's easy for people to joke and laugh it off when in fact this is a very serious debilitating disease you can die from. According to the World Health Organization and Cambridge University, people with bipolar disorder have a life expectancy that is shortened by ten to fifteen years on average, and a 2x-3x higher all-cause mortality rate than the general population. This is on par with severe heart disease, type-1 diabetes, HIV, and cancer-all lethal and fatal if left untreated. The scariest thing about this disorder is how persuasive it is when it tells you: You don't need help. It makes you blind, but convinced you have insight. You feel powerful, certain, and unstoppable. I lost touch with reality. Things got worse the longer I ignored the problem. I said and did things I deeply regret. Some of the people I love the most, I treated the worst. You endured fear, confusion, humiliation, and the exhaustion of trying to love someone who was at times, unrecognizable. Looking back, I became detached from my true self. In that fractured state. I gra…
January 26, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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Absolute banger of a comment on r/military:

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jaderemedy • 4h ago And now comes the most nauseating part of this whole goddamn mess: the hypocrisy. The same loud-mouthed idiots who spent years screaming about tyranny are suddenly dead fucking silent, or worse, cheering, now that it's their side doing it. "ThEy'Re cOminG fOr OuR gUnS!" "GoVerNMenT oVerReAch!" "ShAll nOt bE inFrinGeD!" All that chest-thumping bullshit evaporated the second armed federal agents started terrorizing people they don't like. Let me get this straight: a civilian gets shot dead by federal agents, and the only thing you brainless cunts can muster is "well, DHS says he had a gun"? THAT'S your red line? Guns are sacred when they're strapped to your waist, but magically become a death sentence when they're used as a post-hoc excuse by the government? Either the Second Amendment applies to everyone, or you never believed in it at all. Fucking pick one and own it. This is exactly what tyranny looks like, by the way. Not jackboots marching in formation, but armed agents roaming neighborhoods, stopping people, killing civilians, and then daring the public to question it. Tyranny is execution followed by a press release. Tyranny is labeling the dead a "threat" so the state doesn't have to explain why someone's life just ended in the street. Tyranny is demanding obedience while shredding due process and calling it order. And all you so-called "freedom lovers" are fucking fine with it, as long as it's brown people, immigrants, protesters, or anyone you've already dehumanized. Turns out "don't tread on me" actually meant "tread on them." You weren't afraid of tyranny. You were afraid of losing dominance. There's a difference, and this moment exposes it completely. "Just comply" isn't a principle. It's cowardice dressed up as common sense. It's the language of people who have already accepted that the state gets to decide who deserves rights and who doesn't. And once you make that deal, don't act shocked when the line moves, because it always fuckin…
January 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

What's that? You wanted six thousand words on Big Shug's debut solo album, Who's Hard?

Ugh, what am I doing with my life?

Also, I got you:

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January 24, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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ICYMI: 🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Eightball & MJG's Listen to the Lyrics EP (from 1991) may be a glorified demo recorded when they were teens, but at least one of the songs is an all-timer

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January 20, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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big “david guetta shouting out george floyd’s family” vibes here
clintonyates.bsky.social Clinton Yates @clintonyates.bsky.social · 25d
we have completely lost the plot with the marketing of the legacy of MLK. Column soon.
January 20, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Eightball & MJG's Listen to the Lyrics EP (from 1991) may be a glorified demo recorded when they were just teens, but at least one of the songs is an all-timer

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January 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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hardly the most offensive statement made today in this country, but for some reason his inability to understand how film lovers operate is irking the shit out of me
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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Looking forward to the jack daniels boycott
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jan 13
New: CBS News seems to be preparing a new segment called "Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil," per sources.

Some staff were only first made aware of it as they encountered CBS testing out set designs of a faux-stocked bar in the newsroom, featuring a large sponsor banner for Jack Daniels.
January 14, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Oh no. R.I.P. Rest well, sir.
January 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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🚨 NEW PATREON POST 🚨

Patreon subscribers get a bonus ending to the whole Wu-Mas spectacle as I provide some thoughts on La the Darkman's surprise album, Wu-Tang Forever Ever

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January 10, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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ICE has unchecked power and abuses that power to harass, harm, and kill people. If a politician is unwilling to vote to abolish ICE, they are accepting and enabling these harms and can no longer be considered a viable candidate. Abolishing ICE is not a radical position. It is a necessary one.
January 8, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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ICYMI:

🎄 THE 12 DAYS OF WU-MAS 2025 - DAY #13 🎄

Now that the holidays are over, what’s next for Wu-Mas? Well, nothing, obviously, but that doesn’t mean the fun has to end
There Is No Thirteenth Day of Wu-Mas 2025
Yep, another Wu-Mas has successfully come and gone. It's time to take down the tree, throw away the platters of cookies and gin that were ...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Renee Nicole Good was not the first person to be murdered by ICE under Trump.

Keith Porter was a Black man killed by ICE on New Years Eve.

Silverio Gonzalez was an undocumented immigrant killed in Franklin Park.

Marimar Martinez was shot 5 times in Chicago & survived.

No one is safe.
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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So this means that everyone actually paying for their blue check should be added to a watch list, right?

I’m sort of kidding, but really, folks, stop giving Elon your money for any reason, he isn’t here to help anyone but himself and it’s embarrassing that you haven’t figured that out yet
avclub.com The A.V. Club @avclub.com · Jan 9
The move comes after United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer became possibly the highest-profile person to condemn the deepfakes.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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ICYMI:

🎄 THE 12 DAYS OF WU-MAS 2025 - DAY #12 🎄

Come celebrate the end of the 12 Days of Wu-Mas with a Patreon review for Ghostface Killah's Supreme Clientele 2, which has been unlocked for subscribers at all tiers!

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January 8, 2026 at 10:01 PM