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Interracial Dating in Post-Racial America
Is this a post racial America? “Nigger in a Northface” by Legit, illustrates the complexity and turmoil surrounding an interracial couple. What do you think?
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Brandon Young “Done Fi Dem” feat. Messiah. #Hip-Hop. HBCU Alum
This video deserves replay by hip-hop heads. In the vein of greats like Brand Nubian, Brandon Young and crew skillfully find the balance of honesty and entertaining with “Done Fi Dem.” The visuals communicate the feel of the song with no gratuitous imagery. This is a modern-day throw back to a greater era of hip…
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Notorious B.I.G.’s FBI murder case files released
More than 350 pages of FBI files will give those interested in the case plenty to pore over in the coming days.
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Ashley Judd Calls Hip-Hop a ‘Rape Culture,’ ?uestlove responds
“I believe that the social construction of gender, the cultural beliefs and practices that divide the sexes and institutionalize and normalize the unequal treatment of girls and women and most nefariously, incessantly sexualize girls and women, is the root cause of poverty and suffering around the world.”
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DJ Premier List his Top 5 Music Producers of All Time
Premo lists his top 5 producers of all time. Who would be on your list?
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I Used to Love Her: The De-Evolution of the Female Emcee (Part 2)
Part 2: All Hail the Queens In the late 1980s, a single brazen female changed the entire game. MC Lyte, the first solo female rapper to release a full album, introduced a sound as smooth as cappuccino, with hardcore lyrics that raised the bar for every serious rapper who wanted to stay in or join…
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I Used to Love Her: The De-Evolution of the Female Emcee (Part 1)
“You just don’t like her because you’re old”, is what the 14 year-old told me as we were debating the quality of Nicki Minaj’s music. Me? Old? I can still beat-box, pop-lock and recite every line of The Message, Sucka MCs, and Paper Thin. So maybe I am old, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong.…
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Rapper 50 Cent makes $8.7 million by tweeting
The 35-year-old celeb, aka Curtis Jackson, helped pop the shares of a no-name penny stock company he’s invested in by 290 percent yesterday after chatting it up this weekend on Twitter, the social-networking site