Blog, Silvano Pontoniere and Aaron Light,YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia, Sep 01, 2008
When NaS named his 2006 ...
I first met Kevin "Sky Rocket" Williams outside the Democratic debate held in Philadelphia back in April. He was clearly excited about the event and wanted to tell me about a song he and his partner had...
Hip Hop's issues with America or America's issues with Hip Hop (however you wanna phrase it) is a clever smokescreen to draw attention away from issues that we should really be discussing. Throughout...
On Saturday afternoon I went, I saw, I conquered. I gathered too. At the Capitol Hip Hop Soul Fest in Northeast (NE), I gathered new friends, flyers and flavor. Most of all, I found a community celebrati...
Yo Harry, you're a writer, are we that type? Don't believe the hype.
Don’t Believe the Hype, Public Enemy, 1988
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In January, the Detroit News reported that Michigan lost 90,000 residents in 2007. This was three times the population loss in 2003, the first year economists identified Michigan's one state r...
Whether you like it or not, Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick IS Hip Hop. The 37 year-old chief executive was famously dubbed “The Hip Hop Mayor” at the beginning of his first term, and while the title...