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Seeded from detnews.com by Alex on 2/21/08
New Yorker Alex Melamid — at one time the Soviet Union’s most famous dissident artist — decided to undertake a series of remarkably classic-looking paintings of male hip-hop greats such as 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg…
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Contributed by CZA on 2/20/08
As a word I see and hear almost on a daily basis, I find it rather unique. There have been rallies for and against it, places renamed because of it, even a shift in public acceptance of things that aren’t even connected to it—all because of one word…

Contributed by Brian Krenz on 2/19/08
There are a million reasons to believe that Sen. Barack Obama’s recent burst of momentum following an eight-state sweep will fade. Pollsters and pundits, writers and prognosticators have chanted the “m” word many times in the past. After Obama won Iowa, the media immediately began talking about his […]

Contributed by Amrita Singh on 2/18/08
Marketing campaigns like the one for 50 Cent’s Vitamin Water, have been using hip hop to target a young demographic regardless if the product or ads have anything to do with the culture.

Contributed by Shelby Powell on 2/18/08
I was recently reminded of students at Spelman College declining to host Nelly’s bone marrow drive due to his lascivious music video, Tip Drill, and it got me to thinking: Where is the once open and articulate discourse over misogyny in Hip Hop?

Seeded from washingtonpost.com by Alex on 2/17/08
Americans are in serious intellectual trouble — in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations…
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Contributed by NINO* on 2/15/08
Does virtue itself breed corruption? This seems to be the point Lupe Fiasco is attempting to make with his early retirement. A young, unsoiled soul who is being saluted as hip hop’s saviour, but in the end could be overcome by the “scene”…

Seeded from espn.com by Alex on 2/15/08
It happens all the time. You know the drill: “Athlete arrested… involved in incident at nightclub…” At this point, we should be immune to anything new that happens to anyone. But how do you desensitize yourself when the incident hits home?
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Contributed by Saron Dier on 02/14/08
I know it’s February, somewheres around the 14th. Yo ass is probably scramblin around the mall, or tryin to bid snipe some shit on Ebay looking for some gift for the lady, cause yall had a big ass argument about somethin silly you don’t even remember. She’s […]

Seeded from nytimes.com by Alex on 2/13/08
With markets swinging widely, Ben Bernanke slashing interest rates and the word “recession” on everybody’s lips, renewed attention is being given to the gap between the haves and have-nots in America…
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