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Nelly: How'd a kid from St. Louis rap his way to the top? With songs that sound like the perfect party - Hip-Hop Hit Maker - Interview
At the age of 23, St. Louis rapper Nelly is the reigning prince of the bikini-jiggling party anthem. It's next to impossible to get through a Saturday ......(Continue Reading) Music masters: a new generation of rap moguls is making the industry dance to a different beat: ownership - The hip-hop economy part 3 of a series - Industry
SO SO DEF RECORDINGS CEO JERMAINE DUPRI has been cranking out chart-toppers from his Atlanta-based music factory for more than a decade now. The rap ......(Continue Reading)Rap/Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop music, or to use the more popular marketing term, Rap music, was the most popular, influential, and controversial form ......(Continue Reading)The killing fields in rap's gangsta-land
Gangsta rap music's implied glorification of violence continues to haunt the genre, as Christopher Wallace/Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in a Los Angeles ......(Continue Reading)Rap music and its violent progeny: America's culture of violence in context
America for all her protests against violent rap lyrics has failed to acknowledge her role in the creation of this relatively new art form. There is no ......(Continue Reading)
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