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Spinner has compiled a list of 20 rock stars who’ve seemingly walked away while on top of their game. Although I can’t say Ma$e was at the top of his game after a universally critically-panned Harlem World album.

If we can include Ma$e on the list, we should include all these rappers who’ve “retired” and have came back. Jay-Z, Master P, Too $hort, to name a few.

Anyway, check out the list and let us know your thoughts.

Rock’s Biggest Quitters: 20 Musicians Who Walked Away From Fame

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It’s so wrong…

Watching this, I am having a hard time believing this is really a baby. Just the little things (no pun intended) about this “baby” just don’t seem like it’s a developing child. It’s more like an old Emmanuel Lewis up in this. That’s right, I think it’s Webster doing the stanky leg.

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“Love On A Two-Way Street” is the sample behind Jay-Z’s current banger “Empire State of Mind”, released in March 1970. Prior to the song’s release, The Moments enjoyed moderate success with songs like “Not on the Outside” and “My Confession of Love”. Then came “Love On A Two-Way Street”, which shot the group to #1 on the Billboard R&B chart and remained there for 5 weeks straight. The song would later be covered by Stacy Lattishaw, and if you’ve ever listened to the Art Laboe Sunday show you KNOW this song.

Anyway, enjoy the oldie…

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Craig Robinson is mad hilarious.

“I don’t remember the safe word… tell me the safe word!”

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Via Nah Right

Lupe Fiaso freestyles to Jay-Z’s “Run This Town” and then breaks into “Go-Go Gadget Flow” for the kids at CSUN.

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Via Road 2 Nowhere

Here’s a dope performance from Florence & the Machine covering “You Got the Love”.

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Fiddy has made it clear he doesn’t care much for Fat Joe. Now he’s hitting the viral beef with YouTube displaying the horror of Fat Joe’s latest record.

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via Nah Right

SoulCulture.tv asks 88-Keys what is his favorite verse… so Keys gives it.

And they say hip hop is dead! *Pshh*

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It’s been awhile since the last Throwback, so I’m hitting you with one of my all-time “daaaaaaayyaaammm that’s old school” joints.

Via allmusic.com:

Chicago vocal group Subway’s first single, “This Lil’ Game We Play” with vocals by their Motown labelmates 702, was a million-seller. The group, Eric McNeal, Keith Thomas, Trerail Puckett, and Roy Jones, was signed by Michael Bivins, formerly of New Edition and Bell Biv DeVoe, to his Motown-distributed label Biv 10. Their debut album was Good Times, whose cover art and title were inspired by the same-named CBS-TV hit sitcom of the ’70s that featured a preteen, pre-stardom Janet Jackson in some episodes.

Their debut single, which was produced and written by Gerald Levert and Edwin Nicholas, was billed as “Subway featuring 702,” went gold, making it to number four R&B on Billboard’s charts in late 1994.

Shout-out to Michael Bivins for having a hand in like half my childhood.

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