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Rap and drill music is part of America's racial problem
Years ago, a rap music fan described me as a "hip hop scold of the highest order."
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UNPACKED - How Hip Hop Boosted Kosher Wine Sales
UNPACKED – How Hip Hop Boosted Kosher Wine Sales It might blow your mind to discover that sales of Bartenura, a blue-bottled brand of kosher wine from Italy got a boost thanks to… hip hop! Despite loudly and proudly proclaiming their love of luxur
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UNPACKED - Israeli Hip Hop The Music is the Message
UNPACKED – Israeli Hip Hop The Music is the Message This week, Chloé checks out the origins of Israeli hip hop music, asks if there’s anything off-limits in Israel music and unpacks the country’s political music scene, care of three well-known,
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Nipsey Hussle Murder Suspect Indicted on New Charges | Pitchfork
Eric Holder’s case was revisited with a grand jury who added two additional counts of assault with a firearm
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The Best Hip-Hop Producer Alive, Every Year Since 1979 | Complex
Hip-hop has evolved each year since its birth, not only lyrically, but sonically. Here are the best hip-hop producers, from the genre's beginnings to today.
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Best Hip Hop Albums Of 2018... So Far - Hip Hop Golden Age
What’s happening folks! We are seven months into 2018, and BOY what a year it’s been thus far. It can be argued that this has been one of the strongest first-half years in… well… years. There have been very few missteps so far, and
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Jay-Z’s Dead-On Impressions Of Eminem And Snoop Dogg Perfectly Encapsulate Why They’re Good At Rapping
The Jay-Z episode of David Letterman’s ’My Next Guest Needs No Introduction’ premieres on April 6.
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Migos and Drake Throw Back to the ’70s in “Walk It Talk It” Video: Watch
Jamie Foxx also appears in the dance-themed visual
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Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘The Saga Continues’ Is a Return to Form
Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘The Saga Continues’ Is a Return to Form
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The records behind Beastie Boys' sample masterpiece Paul's Boutique
A track-by-track sprint through the landmark album's most important samples.The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique was a masterpiece in sampling, and an album that could never be made in the same way again. Created during the golden age of sampling - that.
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The notorious night Biggie was murdered in Los Angeles
Ordained with a flow as soulful to black, post-Reaganomics America as Louis Armstrong’s trumpet during the days of the civil rights movement, the street narrati…
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What You Didn't Know About All Those Blinged Out 1999s Hip Hop Albums - And The Origin of the Term "Bling"...
Remember all those amazing, blinged-out Southern Hip-Hop albums of the 1990s? Wait till you hear where they came from and how the term "bling bling" was born...
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These are the 20 best-selling vinyl records of 2016 so far
When meeting a new person, one of the most common questions asked to get a conversation going is “What music do you listen to?”
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Questlove Lists 40 Reasons Prince Was a “Hip Hop Pioneer”
“9) pretty much wrote the book on gettin some better than any of his contemporaries”
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N.W.A. Will Not Perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | News | Pitchfork
Tomorrow, Kendrick Lamar will induct N.W.A. into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They will not, however, perform at the ceremony, Ice Cube has told The New York Times. He said, "Nah, we're not performing.
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The Enduring Charm of Phife Dawg, Hip-Hop’s Scrappiest Virtuoso | Vanity Fair
With the death of Malik “Phife Dawg” Taylor, rap lost a distinctive voice from one of its most revered eras.
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Hip-hop's Future reflects the overstimulation of our time -- or he's just busy
“I know we on the 'Purple Reign' tour, but we gotta get into ‘Dirty Sprite 2,’” Future told the crowd at the Hollywood Palladium not long into his sold-out show Friday night. Then, as though to justify reaching back
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A Former LAPD Detective Thinks He Knows Who Killed Tupac | VICE | United States
With fewer and fewer parties interested in the case, one man believes he knows the truth about who killed Tupac.
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Dr Dre: the hip-hop head with a business brain
Profile: The man cited by his peers as the most significant force in hip-hop is set to become its richest operator. But what does his $3.2bn deal with Apple say about the future of the music industry?
