Archive for October, 2007

“Gangsta” rap sends the wrong message
WSU Winonan, MN - 30 minutes ago
It’s not just the music, either; it’s the lifestyle. “Gangsta rap,” the most commercially profitable subgenre of hip-hop, is more prevalent than ever,

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


The Elements
Oxygen Taps Coolio For Reality Show
Broadcast Newsroom, CA - 2 hours ago
Coolio shot to superstardom in 1995 as a rap star with three platinum albums and six Top-10 hits, including Gansta's Paradise and Fantastic Voyage.
Oxygen duets with Coolio Hollywood Reporter
Rapper Coolio Gets Reality Show on Women’s Oxygen Network 2SNAPS.TV
Coolio Set To Star In New Reality Show Series The Elements
all 6 news articles

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

Shooter Jennings Introduces The Wolf
CMT.com, TN - 4 hours ago
I've never been one of those guys who gets really into obscure music. I can't really relate to a lot of obscure music. It's primarily the mainstream music
Elizabeth Cook Ties 'Apron Strings' to SIRIUS Radio Great American Country
all 2 news articles

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


The Elements
13 years later, Arrested Development returns
MSNBC - 6 hours ago
by nearly a decade — split soon after, amid internal dissension and a shift in the kind of rap artists that the mainstream music industry would promote.
Scarface Gets Made December 4th SoundSlam.com
all 9 news articles

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

Fight the Power: A New Movement for Civil Rights
Mother Jones, CA - 3 hours ago
Rap became a de facto voice of black America." Or, more accurately, voices. A 1991 Public Enemy tour included acts as disparate as LA gangsta pioneer Ice T,

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

American Gangster Soundtrack Set For Novemeber 6th Release
DJBooth.net, NY - 4 hours ago
Public Enemy's Chuck D, and Eric 'Vietnam' Sadler) Shocklee was at the boards for some of rap and hip-hop's greatest Def Jam releases by Public Enemy,

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

E-Swift: The Return of Tha Liks
AllHipHop - 2 hours ago
And I look at them like, “I’m down here with y’all trying to have a good time and hear some good rap music.” So going to New York, where rap music started,

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

WHO ASKED US: Private School Outcast
New California Media, CA - 4 hours ago
People have asked me if I only listen to “rap music,” when I hardly listen to any rap music at all. Again, I feel like people are making assumptions about

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

Rap star's family says inmate lied
Daily Breeze, CA - 6 hours ago
Lawyers for the family of slain rap music star Christopher Wallace, better known as Notorious BIG, claimed in court papers filed Monday that a prison inmate

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

Hip-Hop Culture Forced to Re-examine Itself
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - 6 hours ago
In the film, Hunt interviewed rappers such as Fat Joe and Busta Rhymes, rap music executives, hip-hop experts, and teenagers immersed in hip-hop culture,

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

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