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What’s Going on with L-Boogie?
What’s going on with Lauryn “L-Boogie” Hill? She first jumped on the scene as “L-Boogie” in the Fugees, when sisters were falling out of the hip-hop crews and becoming backup... Read more
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Pulling Yourself Up by Your Bootstraps…with an Ivy League Degree
A good label for Dagoberto Gilb? Try good. Richard Howard, then poetry editor of the Paris Review, was claiming that the best writers rise to the top of the literary... Read more
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The Purely Oiled Machine – Putting the Soul Back into Hip-Hop
There’s a growing backlash against rap and hip-hop music. I’ve been waiting for it to get to this point. I’m not glad it’s here, but I expected it to get... Read more
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Rite-Aid…the Great Equalizer
Rite-Aid and Why I Love My City… I work right across the street from the Rite-Aid drugstore on Market Street in San Francisco, California. Apparently, I’ve underestimated this store’s reputation... Read more
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fela kuti.
Fela's music lured African Americans in with funky extended tracks and by singing in English. He "de-exoticized" African music by using traditional Nigerian syncopation that funked and thumped with James... Read more
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