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The Throne, better known as Jay-Z and Kanye West , will premiere the first video from their debut collective Watch The Throne this Thursday at 8:56 p.m. ET/PT . Tune into MTV, MTV2, mtvU, MTV.com or BET at that time to see the superstars rapping together on “Otis.” It’s tough to pick a favorite track on the LP, which has been on repeat since we grabbed it this week, but the song featuring legend .. more …
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His 2009 educational rap Regulatin’ Genes parodied Jay-Z’s Money Ain’t a Thang and won him global media attention. Now Californian biology teacher Tom McFadden is unleashing a new set of educational rhymes aimed squarely at the schoolyard. In 2008 McFadden, now 25, was asked to write a satirical rap for his university peers about milkshakes for a Stanford talent show. His love of parody and .. more …
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NEWS » by Latifah Muhammad May 18, 2012, 13:35pmWith his latest (and hopefully last) jail stint behind him, T.I.’s prepping new music, and developing the careers of his Grand Hustle artists, yet even with all these projects on the horizon he’s contemplating leaving rap all together.Tip stopped by Power 105′s The Breakfast Club this morning, where he spoke on the rap game, and why it’s not .. more …
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Published on: Thursday, July 28, 2011By Tom RyanSince rap music has been popular, some people have complained about the violent nature of some of the lyrics of those songs. However one views the merits of words about shootings and violence the freedom of artistic expression remains under the First Amendment. Sometimes, however, persons who are accused of crimes may be confronted with what they .. more …
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Just when it seemed Drake was establishing himself in the top tier of the rap game, he tells i-D magazine over a meal that he won’t be rapping for long. Drizzy revealed that he wanted to make a return to acting after making his first mark on the entertainment industry as a young Jimmy Brooks on teen show “Degrassi.” The Canadian emcee delves into the reason why he’s single, the film that made the .. more …
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Brothers Gonna Work It Out considers the political expression of rap artists within the historical tradition of black nationalism. Interweaving songs and personal interviews with hip-hop artists and activists including Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Rosa Clemente, manager of dead prez, and Wise Intelligent of Poor Righteous Teachers, Cheney links late twentieth-century hip-hop nationalists with their nineteenth-century spiritual forebears.
Cheney examines Black nationalism as an ideology historically inspired by a crisis of masculinity. Challenging simplistic notions of hip-hop culture as simply sexist or misogynistic, she pays particular attention to Black nationalists’ historicizing of slavery and their visualization of male empowerment through violent resistance. She charts the recent rejection of Christianity in the lyrics of rap nationalist music due to the perception that it is too conciliatory, and the increasing popularity of Black Muslim rap artists.
Cheney situates rap nationalism in the 1980s and 90s within a long tradition of Black nationalist political thought which extends beyond its more obvious influences in the mid-to-late twentieth century like the Nation of Islam or the Black Power Movement, and demonstrates its power as a voice for disenfranchised and disillusioned youth all over the world.