UK Hip-Hop Comes Under Fire from Conservative Leader

UK Hip-Hop Comes Under Fire from Conservative Leader
allhiphop.com - Cameron, who made his views known Tuesday (June 6) at a British Society of Magazine Editors event, accused BBC Radio 1 of encouraging knife and gun violence through its airing of rap music. He singled out the station's Saturday night
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Grim, cynical 'Waist Deep' is surprisingly easy to watch
Seattle Post Intelligencer - The director-writer is Vondie Curtis-Hall -- best remembered for his 1997 Tupac Shakur drama "Gridlock'd" -- and with its macho posturing, rap music layered over the action and almost non-stop violence, this new film is similarly geared to a young
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Sex & Scandal at Duke
Rolling Stone - Bad techno-rap music pulses, the dance floor throbs. Tom Wolfe, whose novel I Am Charlotte Simmons is set in an orgiastic, booze-drenched version of Duke (given the fictional name Dupont University), couldn't have thought up a better scene. Away from
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If a superhero lands in the forest, does anyone hear it?
Inside Bay Area - Paris Paul, Aynsley Fleishner and Waldemar Maszewski star in the picture, which also traces the roots of rap music, hairdos and dances to Ethiopia and other parts of Africa. E-mail Ftolossa@aol.com . "A Miracle in Cracow" centers around a
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Greg Schumacher, standout soccer player at Horlick High School
Journal Times - Schumacher describes himself as being laid-back, but said he s blunt with people and don t like to sugar-coat things. Besides playing soccer, which he s done for about 13 years, Schumacher likes listening to alternative and rap music
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