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Hip-Hop Needs a #MeToo Reckoning
Time via Yahoo Canada News· 1 week agoCredit - Photo-Illustration by TIME; Getty Images Cassie Ventura is not the first survivor of hip-hop’s abuse. Unfortunately, she will not be the last....
Dr. Dre, a Defiant One, Goes From Compton Streets to Receiving His Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoFrom the distinction of becoming hip-hop’s first billionaire to being honored with a Hollywood Walk...
Ice Cube: alongside a dynamic Cypress Hill, the controversial rapper now feels like a nostalgia act
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months ago“London, can we keep it gangsta tonight?” veteran rapper Ice Cube yelled into the darkness of the O2...
Compton honors late N.W.A rapper Eazy-E by naming a street after him
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoAlonzo Williams, left, and Eric Darnell Wright Jr., the son of the late rapper Eazy-E who goes by...
Has Commercialization Killed Hip-Hop? It’s Complicated.
HuffPost via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoThe commercialization of hip-hop and the overly wrought themes of excess and violence were supposed...
America Has Always Tried To Be Hip-Hop’s Overseer
HuffPost via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoIn the early 1980s, when hip-hop was cementing itself in the Black community, so was a devastating new drug and a police force that didn't know what to...
How MC Lyte’s Voice Helped Bridge Generations In Hip-Hop
HuffPost via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoIllustration: Benjamin Currie/HuffPost; Photos: Getty How MC Lyte’s Voice Helped Bridge Generations...
15 underrated movie soundtracks you need to listen to
INSIDER via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoThe soundtracks to "Straight Outta Compton," "Belly," and "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten...
Get Rich or Die Tryin': 50 Cent’s seminal hip-hop album 20 years on
The Conversation via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoIt is January 2003 – many years before I began researching popular music professionally – and I’m flicking around the music channels on TV. Disillusioned by the usual paint by numbers chart ...