From the nymag.com video team, a double bill for the ages. Both feature hungry showbiz strivers ready to duke it out for a shot at the big time … but in only one are the contenders clutching dressed-up dolls. That's right: Up at Harlem's Hip Hop Culture Center, a hundred M.C.'s took turns at the mike for 24 hours straight in the first-ever "rapathon" — while a gaggle of mostly blonde preteen divas laid siege to the American Girl Place for a film audition. The former is decidedly PG ("No curses, no n-word, no b-word"); the latter, which features a girl saying "I don't want to sound conceited, but people tell me I'm talented," somewhat obscene.

American Girls Audition [NYM]
24-Hour Rapathon [NYM]