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Mark Walker is only 3, but he already knows what he wants from life. And thanks to streaming video on his Reebok-sponsored website, the Missouri toddler, ......(Continue Reading) Quitting hip-hop
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A line in Edwyn Collins's biggest hit, "A Girl Like You", sums up our current predicament: "Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs". The ......(Continue Reading)Eminem's construction of authenticity
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