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by Dr. Joycelyn Wilson onOctober 18, 2011
A Harvard hip-hop scholar compares the golden age to today's era of violence and greed.
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July 8, 2010
The Death Row label head failed to appear in court. He must really like jail.
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September 2, 2009
Beat biter, dope-style taker, Ivy-League Ph.D Psychology-Faker
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August 27, 2009
As France grapples with modernity and becoming a multiracial nation, the country's rappers and politicians are trying to find a way to co-exist...
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July 15, 2009
Is Jay-Z George Bush? Mark Lynch of SLATE sister site FOREIGN POLICY recently compared hip hop to geostrategy. He parses the recent back-and-forth between rapper Jay-Z and less successful (though still famous) MCs like The Game, Nas, and 50 Cent, using Jay-Z's diss tracks, and his responses to those of others, to form a crudish theory of American global authority.
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by James Braxton Peterson onJanuary 5, 2009
Nas ditched the N-word. But does he even need it anymore?
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by Stephane Dunn onDecember 18, 2008
Was The Big Man's Youtube rant against Kobe so wrong?
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by Stephen A. Crockett Jr. onDecember 16, 2008
I believe in the power of Christmas music, which is why I keep a Christmas mix in my car at all times; it is the one thing that can make me feel like a child instantly. It is the only music that doesn't discriminate by age or race. A Christmas mix is just as likely to have Ol' Blue Eyes next to ODB. So, I give you Christmas.
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by Vince Thomas onNovember 20, 2008
Busta Rhymes' latest track throws Arabic gibberish on the hook, as he boasts, "We gettin' Ay-rab money!" Ay-rab? How can a song this ignorant be in heavy rotation? This song is not satire. It's pure ignorance.
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