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I Write Like Compares Big Boi, Sleigh Bells to Stephen King, Dan Brown

Sure, we writerly types would all like to think we’re the next Nabokov or Hemingway. Luckily, I Write Like is here to fulfill all our unreasonable delusions! The website invites you to put in your finest literary work and, through a presumably-algorithmic analysis tool, tells you what great writer your work resembles. Of course, the Tumblr community promptly went and destroyed our precious egos by informing us that, according to I Write Like, Mel Gibson’s rants had airs of Chuck Palahniuk, LFO’s “Summer Girls” echoed Vonnegut and Justin Bieber’s “Baby” was in the tradition of James Joyce. With that in...  read more

Good in the Hood: The Very Best of The Hood Internet

The past two weeks have been fruitful for The Hood Internet...  read more

Pop Pyrotechnics: Fifteen Fireworks Plus Songs by Which to Explode Them

Happy Fourth of July, America! We don't need to tell you how to celebrate your independence, but...  read more

The Beatman Prophecies: Six Hip-Hop Predictions To Die For

This week, a 2002 video interview between DJ Whoo Kid and Kanye West bubbled to the surface of the blogosphere. It was originally shot on Oct. 23, the day of the latter’s infamous car accident, and, get this, he mentions his first car crash on it. Now, that could easily be a coincidence if Kanye were a normal human being, but he’s a rapper, and, like cave-dwelling sages and lecturing moms, they tend to have a gift for seeing the future. If you need proof, just look to the Internet; examples of MCs’ clairvoyance are more multitudinous than Gucci Mane’s...  read more

Is Indie Dead?

Indie is, at once, a genre (of music first, and then of film, books, video games and anything else with a perceived arty sensibility, regardless of its relationship to a corporation), an ethos, a business model, a demographic and a marketing tool...  read more

Fifteen Albums, Songs That Defined 2009 for Paste's Web Editor

This was a confusing year for me...  read more

The 37 Awesomest Songs of 2009

The album really died for me this year...  read more