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OutKast: they've gone from hip-hop fringe dwellers to mavens of the mainstream. But how far can OutKast's journey to the center of pop music go? Their Grammy-winning, multiplatinum, double-concept album, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista), did for hip-hop what the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely ......(Continue Reading) Beastie boys: they were once a band of rhyming hopefuls who were dismissed as a novelty act. But two decades later, and with a new album, they're at the Nearly 20 years ago, three hip-hop-obsessed Jewish teenagers from New York City--Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, Michael "Mike D" Diamond, ......(Continue Reading)Who's playin' whom? Overwhelming influence of hip-hop culture, rap music on HBCU campuses concerns students, faculty In December 2000, Dr. Thomas Earl Midgette had harsh words for the hip-hop movement that was sweeping his campus. When he was interviewed for an article ......(Continue Reading)HIP-HOP At the Crossroads Will Lyrics And Perceptions Change? FROM turntables perched atop record crates at New York City basement parties to a multibillion-dollar music industry, ......(Continue Reading)OutKast: music's favorite odd couple breaks the hip-hop mold - Cover Story OutKast, one of hip-hop's greatest rap duos ever, is presenting by far the riskiest material that the group has released in its 10-year career. The sixth and newest project Speakerboxxx/The Love Be...(Continue Reading)
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