Archive for August, 2007

Fall music forecast: a flurry of CDs
Seattle Times, United States - 1 hour ago
The most vilified man in rap tries to regain his good name with his first CD in three years. Joni Mitchell: "Shine," Sept. 25. The legend's first album of

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

Talib Kweli and Scribe will tour Australia in October
Sunday Times.au, Australia - 2 hours ago
Kweli firmly established himself as a tour de force in the world of rap music with his debut album "Reflection Eternal" in 2000, and has since become both a

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

Rap showdown: Heavyweights 50 Cent and Kanye West ready to duke it out
Boston Herald, United States - 4 hours ago
By Lauren Carter / Music The album covers say it all. On “Curtis,” hardcore rapper 50 Cent looks somewhere between stressed and menacing as he half-scowls
Kanye's Graduation: Inside The NYC Listening Party For West's So MTV.com
It's a Rap-Off Huffington Post
Time, self-reflection help sand down rapper’s rough edges ChronicleHerald.ca
Times of India
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Police Blames Rap Lyrics for Shootings & Robberies
About – News & Issues, NY - 5 hours ago
After a convenience store attendant was shot by robbers, a Sheriff in Florida wasted no time in blaming "gansta rap" for the increased violence in Lee

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

Class of 2007: Jimmy Roses
San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA - 5 hours ago
Representing the Hispanic wing of the hyphy movement, Jimmy Roses won Latin Rap Artist of the Year at the 2006 Bay Area Rap Scene Awards,

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

Sheriff defends comments on gangsta rap
Winknews.com, Florida - 5 hours ago
In fact, he pointed to a recent article in Ebony magazine focused on the very subject of rap music. Muwakki gave his opinion on some forms of gangsta music,

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

You are what you own
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 35 minutes ago
But rap is not homogenous – there are individual rappers and the music they make. Some of the music is so relentlessly “positive” that it would get the

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back


Spectator.co.uk (subscription)
How Cameron can mend the broken society
Spectator.co.uk (subscription), UK - 3 hours ago
America, home of the gansta rap music, pulled itself out of this social nosedive in the 1990s by Clinton’s family-based welfare reform and Giuliani’s

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

A&P fires and sues brothers after they put their 'Produce Paradise
International Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours ago
AP NEWARK, New Jersey: Two brothers sacked from their grocery jobs for filming a gangsta rap parody at the store now face a defamation lawsuit from their
Hunterdon County brothers are sued by A&P for 'Fresh Beets' video NJ Blog
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A&P Sues Brothers Over Vegetable Video
The Associated Press - 28 Aug 2007
NEWARK, NJ (AP) — Two New Jersey brothers sacked from their grocery jobs for filming a gangsta rap parody at the store now face a defamation lawsuit from

Original post by rap music – Google News and software by Elliott Back

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