Rap Music

Interview with up and coming child rap star Young JinSu

A nation goes to the polls – but the majority are too young to vote
It is a “quiet morning”, according to the nurse at Mulago Hospital’s maternity ward, but it does not look like it. A dozen expectant mothers fill the wooden bench in the waiting area. A heavily pregnant girl in a blue dress – little more than a child herself – writhes on the floor, already in labour.
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Rihanna Paid 0K For One Hour Gig
Rihanna is being paid $ 500,000 for an hour-long performance in Florida. The What’s My Name star will perform at a charity gala in front of just 600 guests, in aid of the Dana-Farber Cancer…
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Speidi Joins Forces With Waka Flocka ‘N Debra Antney
Spencer Pratt announced that he’s heading to the studio with Waka Flocka Flame, right on the heels of his awful chicken wing-centric rap song.
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Milwaukee UP: Talented young rapper Que riding high on early buzz
Milwaukee emcee and teenager Que unleashed a small lightning strike into the world last month when his song “Can’t Keep Running Away” (featuring Patrice Downey) was released.
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Saigon Honored By Chet Haze’s Underrated Title, “Get Me In One Of Those Big Movies”
After Hollywood actor Tom Hanks’ son Chet Haze awarded Saigon with the title of SOHH Underrated this week, the “Yard Father” gave SOHH his reaction to the accolade.  [Visit SOHH.com for more information]
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Pauline J. Boyers, 1918-2011: Music teacher instructed kids in TPS elementaries
Pauline J. Boyers, who for two decades traveled among Toledo elementary schools and opened students’ ears to a world of music, died Monday at Briar Hill Health Campus, North Baltimore, Ohio, where she lived two years. She was 92. The cause was not known, but she likely died from the effects of Parkinson’s disease with which she dealt for years, her son Joe said. Mrs. Boyers, formerly of West …
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Grammys Gaga for Young, Buble
LOS ANGELES — Out with the old and in with the new? Not at the 2011 Grammys. If anything, the motto of this year’s music awards extravaganza was: In with the new and the old stuff, too.[...]
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Grammys 2011: See the winners
Arcade Fire, Lady Antebellum, Eminem, Lady Gaga among the night’s big winners; see them all
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Grammys Gaga for Young, Buble
LOS ANGELES — Out with the old and in with the new? Not at the 2011 Grammys. If anything, the motto of this year’s music awards extravaganza was: In with the new and the old stuff, too.[...]
Read more on Sarnia Observer

Big Boi unfazed by Grammy snub, ready to deliver more solo hits [Video]
Antwan “Big Boi” Patton is probably one of hip-hop’s most even-keeled emcees. Though it’s been more than four years since OutKast, the platinum-selling, Grammy-winning group he co-founded with Andre “Andre 3000″ Benjamin, released an album — despite more than a…
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RAP WITH THE FACTS — SUBTRACTION, lyrics

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From 1988, its RAP WITH THE FACTS — SUBTRACTION. Wonderful! My favorite lyrics are "5 astronauts are up in space, 3 leave to walk on Mars., 2 astronauts are left behind, to stare up at the stars."….Great Stuff,..Crazy Rhymes! and those costumes,….well, you be the judge! By the way, with regard to the lyrics,…….there are more,….I’ll photograph those too if anyone wants them…..just ask in the comments…

Grammys Gaga for Young, Buble
LOS ANGELES — Out with the old and in with the new? Not at the 2011 Grammys. If anything, the motto of this year’s music awards extravaganza was: In with the new and the old stuff, too.[...]
Read more on Sarnia Observer

Grammy Winners And Upsets During Surprising Night
Favorites left wanting as underdogs shine on music’s biggest night Lady Antebellum’s desperate late-night call for companionship, “Need You Now,” was named record and song of the year among five awards the country trio collected during the 53rd Grammy Awards ceremony Sunday from Staples Center in Los Angeles.
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