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Hip-hop nation A spokesman for the new generation of African-Americans says hip-hop can ignite a fresh wave of black activism -- but first the civil rights veterans have to get out of the way.   |
AskMen.com
November 26, 2002
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Is Hip-Hop Taking Over Fashion, Y'All? The staggering success of rap has generated a nouveau riche sensibility. It's become cliched yet mandatory for rappers to flaunt Cristal, fleets of Cadillacs and diamond-encrusted Rolexes. Fashion was simply the next worldly possession on the list. |
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Sowmya Krishnamurthy |
Hip-Hop Style When rapper Lil Wayne stepped onto the MTV Video Music Awards stage this year, he set tongues and tweets wagging with his skintight, safari-inspired pants. |
Mother Jones
Jul/Aug 2001
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Slamming Hip-Hop Saul Williams on defining hip-hop, discomfiting listeners, and personal hero Paul Robeson... |
Salon.com
June 3, 2002
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"Fight the Power" Public Enemy's explosive 1989 hit single brought hip hop to the mainstream -- and brought revolutionary anger back to pop... |
Entrepreneur
May 2004
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Urban Legends As entrepreneurs, hip-hop artists seem unstoppable. What's their edge? |
BusinessWeek
October 27, 2003
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The CEO of Hip-Hop Impresario Russell Simmons has brought urban style to mainstream America -- and helped other big marketers do the same. An inside look at his growing influence. |
Salon.com
November 1, 2002
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Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002 The pioneering DJ of Run-DMC was a godfather of '80s Adidas rap-rock -- but he was no thug. |
AskMen.com
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Style Icon: Diddy No matter which name he uses, Sean Combs' personal style has transformed the look of hip-hop from casual urban to uptown chic. |
Fast Company
December 1, 2006
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Bottled Up Just when Cristal lost favor in the hip-hop world, hip-hop fixture Branson B. was rolling out his own champagne. So where are his famous friends now? |
Salon.com
September 27, 2002
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Hip-hop's murky whodunit Nick Broomfield's dishonest film "Biggie and Tupac" solves nothing about the rap world's most notorious murders. |
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Interview: E-40 For the better part of 15 years, E-40 has been creating the slang, rhymes and music that go on to dominate rap and popular music years after he lays his initial brainstorms on wax. |
Inc.
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Music to the People ...In the music business, as in so many others, technology is eliminating the traditional gatekeepers between those who create and those who consume... |
Salon.com
January 22, 2001
Chris Colin |
He's got the beat Quietly, humbly and only knocking over one shelf, 23-year-old Scott Kuzner breaks into the world of hip-hop... |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
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"Brown Sugar" Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs shine in a hip-hop-fueled romantic comedy that displays the quiet strength of African-American film's new wave. |
Fast Company
November 2003
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Rush Hour Russell Simmons, the godfather of hip-hop, has used street smarts and a platinum Rolodex to create a $300 million conglomerate. Now he's flexing his political muscle. Come inside the frenetic world of a modern entrepreneur. |
AskMen.com
November 25, 2003 |
Russell Simmons Interview One of the architects of today's rap and hip-hop music industry as a founder of Def Jam, Simmons is still changing the landscape with his Rush Communications, a conglomerate that includes Def Jam, Rush Artist Management, Phat Farm, and even Def Pictures, a movie production house. |
Salon.com
May 9, 2001
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Robert Christgau The self-styled dean of American rock criticism talks about rock's past, its future and why he hit Ellen Willis in the face with a piece of pie... |
BusinessWeek
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The Business of Hip-Hop, and How It Grew Dan Charnas' "The Big Payback" details the genre's origins and evolution into a branding and marketing phenomenon. |
Entrepreneur
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The Endless Flow of Russell Simmons Hip-hop impresario and multimedia baron Russell Simmons lives and breathes opportunity. |
Salon.com
September 6, 2000
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"Turn It Up" After a little "Mean Streets" and a lot of Peckinpah-Tarantino violence, this low-key indie rap vehicle degenerates into a gratuitous orgy of murders. |
AskMen.com
Eric Santos |
Business Lessons From Drake Both rappers and entrepreneurs are always challenging social norms. They are hip, cool and creative. They are the modern day's rock stars. When they're first starting out, they dream about signing deals -- VC and record deals. They also both have a ridiculously strong hustle and work ethic. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2002
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Ice capades Vanilla Ice talks about player haters, his pet kangaroo and what he'd do to his mother for a million dollars... |
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Fat Joe... All or Nothing Fat Joe began in the rap game with the 1993 release of Represent. |
Salon.com
November 1, 1999
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The dearth of cool Are white hipsters an endangered species? Is sellout just another word for nothing left to lose? |
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13 Questions With Pharrell Pharrell Williams is part of the production duo The Neptunes, the lead singer and drummer of the rock band N*E*R*D, and released his solo hip-hop, R&B album in 2006. |
AskMen.com
January 18, 2013
Sachin Bhola |
Debate: Rappers Name-Dropping Designers Rappers dropping designer names in lyrics isn't anything new. Jay sang about Chloe glasses in 2000. Redman sang about Calvin Klein on a Biggie track in the '90s, and the trend, no doubt, dates back much further. |
