Archive for December, 2008

Year-end bests: Some unexpected mashups in music
Houston Chronicle, United States - 2 hours ago


This year, in many ways, was all about unexpected mashups: R&B throwbacks flirting with disco grooves, rap swagger softened by emotional truths,

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

At 40, Glen Johnson is still fighting for respect
Broward New Times, FL - 3 hours ago


Attempting to piggyback on hip-hop's popularity, its artists use rap beats and hire MCs for guest verses, resulting in a sound virtually indistinguishable

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

Video: Casual Sax's "Whorer Core"
Broward New Times, FL - 12 hours ago


you'll be please to know that Casual Sax has returned with "Whorer Core," which is sort of their humorous take on early '90s West Coast gangsta rap.

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The shocking rise in black homicide
Atlantic Online - 13 hours ago


Or better still the "70 percent out of wedlock" stat which every intellectual likes to whip out to show how gangsta rap destroyed the Negroes.

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BehindWoods
"The leader of 2008 Tamil Music"
BehindWoods, India - 3 hours ago


A complete fun song on friendship with simple lyrics, rocking music and hot rap by Blaaze. Only AR RAHMAN can do such magic."Taxi Taxi" is, by quite a

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MiamiHerald.com
Opa-locka kids rap for community change
MiamiHerald.com, FL - 4 hours ago


BY WILMA HERNANDEZ To the rhythm of hip-hop music, a group of North Dade Middle School students showed the community they wish for a better world.

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50 stole Ja's swag and became him (So untrue, since the beginning of rap music, artist have sung with a melody in their hooks and so did 50 actually during

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Prefixmag
Rap music was invented in Scotland
NewsLite, UK - 5 hours ago


Rap music owes more to medieval Scotland than it does to New York's Bronx, claim academics. Boffins say Celts were insulting each other with rhymes well
Rap music's unlikely Scottish origins documented Prefixmag
Rap music originated in medieval Scottish pubs, claims American Telegraph.co.uk
Rap music 'invented in Scotland' The Sun
The Publican - United Press International
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Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers
Nashville Scene,  USA - 6 hours ago


It didn't hurt that the country music capital is Nashville (and Miley Cyrus was born there) and the R&B HQ is Atlanta. Powerhouse 2008 rap states Louisiana

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Gospel music helps inspire Scott
Idaho Press-Tribune, ID - 2 hours ago


odds are he will be listening to gospel music. While most of his teammates will likely listen to rap or rock songs on their iPods, the Maryland running

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