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Rhythm, blues and styleSan Jose Mercury News,  USA - 4 hours agoAs gangster rap took over the charts in the 1990s, R&B guys toughened up their image with Timberland boots, baggy jeans and diamond-encrusted gold chains. …

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The new romanticGlobe and Mail, Canada - 25 minutes agoIn rap music you tend to have the same old pieces: a Jesus piece, a cross, a rosary, all this random religious stuff that most of them don't believe in …

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New Music: MIA - ‘Shells’Rap-Up.com, CA - 1 hour agoThis entry was posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 12:45 pm and is filed under MIA, New Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the …Q&A with Diplo SFStation.comall 2 news articles

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Music : Kanye West Music: What's the deal behind Late Registration?Prudent Press Agency (press release), Netherlands - 1 hour ago"Socioneconomic rap"? Can't really think of many others… But here's some accurate thoughts on the subject. Kanye West music has socioenomical, …

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Teen gets time for grandma in 'gangster rap' videoTehran Times, Iran - 2 hours ago… juvenile detention for coaxing his senile grandmother into holding a gun and threatening to shoot ""all the pigs"" in a homemade ""gangster rap"" video. …

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Has Gangsta Rap really brainwashed the weaker…AllHipHop - 4 hours ago… on what is "snitching," "Is the Hood Checking for Poetry," "Obama isnt like one of us because he grew up in Hawaii," and "Kweli aint keeping it gangsta. …

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Hip-hop group Treologic to play Loading DockTraverse City Record Eagle, MI - 1 hour ago"Even though the media portrays rap as a negative, there's a lot of positive to it," he said. "A lot of underground rap music is trying to lift up this …

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EL león asmático baila sobre spray y reggaeGara, Spain - 31 Oct 2008Trip-hop, gansta rap, blanco y negro… "Volveremos y seremos mil. Mil millones de voces levantadas para hacerse oír (…). Hay que luchar hasta que el …

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Truth being dropped over beatsYale Daily News, CT - 34 minutes ago… issues of black masculinity in relation to the evolution (or devolution) of today’s hip-hop and rap music as conduits of communication and commentary. …

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Inductees walk red carpet at LI Music Hall of FameNewsday, NY - 1 hour agoBY KEVIN AMORIM | kevin.amorim@newsday.com It was a bittersweet day for Darryl McDaniels, the "DMC" part of rap group Run-DMC. …

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