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Aliya S. King's True Hip-Hop Stories: Lady Luck Speaks
When you’re 16 and signed to Def Jam and then dropped from the label while still a teenager—what happens next. Last week, I posted my first VSB story, on how I snuck into Teaneck High to cover rapper Lady Luck, who had been signed to Def Jam. I reached out to Luck this weekend to…
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Aliya S. King's True Hip-Hop Stories: That Time I Pretended To Be A High School Kid For A Story On Lady Luck
The year was 1999. I was hired as a Staff Reporter for The Source. (How I got on is a story of epic proportions for another day.) When I interviewed for the job with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, the editor-in-chief, I came to him with a ton of ideas for stories and columns. One of the…
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