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Shoestring

When most rappers his age are either fighting to recover their ghetto credibility as part of hip-hop's nobility and petit bourgeoisie or break out of ghetto celebrity as one of its

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Coo Coo Cal: Milwaukee Bounce

Even through a telephone one can practically see the broad smile of Milwaukee

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MARVILOUS THOUGHTS

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Cincinnati Post Riot News

To say that Cincinnati great white fathers have not learned anything since the 1968 riots that revealed scars behind Lady Bird Johnson's auxiliary American Beautiful campaign for her presidential husband's neo-New Deal Great Society program is

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Ill One

Ill One gives an interview at Manhattan-based offices of his publicist Double Xxposure that breeds the kind of ennui found in a restless character...

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Alley Life

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Ike Dirty: Struggle, Territory & Spinal Injuries

"It's a borough. A regular borough with people doing regular things", Ike Dirty offers about his hometown from the basement recording studio of Rockboy Street Records where he, DJ Nu and the rest of the Teflon Entertainment team have been.

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Rack Lo - Working Man

For those out of the loop, the Lo Lifes are perhaps the most notorious shoplifting crew to ever exist. When asked about the formation of the crew in the New York

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AZ

Much of AZ's rhyme and reason is concerned with paper chasing, but the New York City-based Dominican-American mic-controller less conspicuously kindles an interest in

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Edo G.

As the Ground Control All-Stars contemplate what to fill their stomachs with, Edo is far more animated than The Masterminds, Ohioan born Rasco, and Acey

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Phife Dawg Interview

In this game I've seemed to come across all walks of life and personalities. Some you can't get enough of, and some you'd wish you could easily forget

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Aimster Amended Lawsuit

Aimster server AbovePeer has added the 20 records companies the Recording Industry Association of America, the represented in the Washington, DC-based organization

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Underground Voices

Can't nobody hate on the past two weeks in the land of music. Tonnes of releases, and tonnes of Lp's so let's get started... a'ight. First with the LP's, the long anticipated return of one of the classic hiphop members dropped in the form of "The Truth Hurts" by none other than

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Initial Updated Marlon Brano Obituary

Greater New York City

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The Other Side of the Story: The Alchemist Dilemma

With all of the hysteria surrounding the respected producer "The Alchemist" and his apparent double selling of a beat made in 1999, it is amazing that a judgement

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Bethlehem Anti-Rap Liquor License dispute story to post

Whether a club owner in Pennsylvania's industrial Leigh Valley region must scuttle his hip-hop events to obtain a liquor license will be determined by the

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Remedy: White Assassin

Twenty-nine-year-old mic-controller Remedy enters a room Wu-Tang style: loud, unabashed, and accompanied by his Wu brethren

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Slimm Calhoun

North Georgian mic-controller Slimm Calhoun and his Organized Noize kinsman Backbone abide the spectacle with a stoic but

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Kardinal Offishall

My man Kardinal has found himself in a different position as of late. For all those who don't know Kardinal, he's the energy-filled

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Underground Voices

What's up world, if you're into jazzy beats and good feelin' music, you must have been as happy as I was with the releases lately. First off, the highly anticipated follow-up single from the Sound Providers "Who Am I" ft Grap Luva.

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Aceyalone

I just had to do this profile on Aceyalone because I'm feeling he's the one rapper who doesn't get the props he deserves. Too many people don't know about Aceyalone