One of the nicest things about driving north out of the city is that point ten or fifteen minutes past the Bronx Zoo when you see the familiar sign and you say to yourself or the unlucky person who's in the car with you and has had to hear you repeat your own silly little favorite sayings again and again and again for the past ten years, "Money Earnin' Mt. Vernon!" It's such a great rhyme, it rolls off the tongue perfectly, really one of the best municipal nicknames anyone's ever come up with. Sadly, the man who grew up there who coined the phrase—or, at least, the man who [...]

Wu-Tang Clan founder the RZA always sounds like he has cotton balls stuffed in nostrils. But in a good way. He also always has something interesting to say. Here, in a snippet from an interview he did at last weekend's Splash! Festival in Germany, he talks about how sometimes dictatorship is better than democracy. The interviewer starts to look a little nervous. Now here's a video mash-up that makes it look Adolf Hitler is performing Notorious B.I.G.'s "Live Freestyle '95."

With its tough, minimalist beat, and a chopped-up of vocal snippet from Biggie Smalls' "Dead Wrong," Papoose's "I Just Want The Paper" is a street hit. Now comes his recession-beating video. Papoose is from Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn and there is no Autotune in this song.