Hip Hop & Rap

Magazine articles on Hip Hop and Rap music and musicians.

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AskMen.com June 3, 2003	Inspectah Deck As a member of the influential Wu-Tang Clan, Inspectah Deck has made a name for himself thanks to his work with Gang Starr and Tupac. With the release of his latest album, The Movement, Inspectah is sure to discover big-time fame... again.
Reason May 2003 Jesse Walker	Indecent Rules Two years ago, the Federal Communications Commission hit the cash-strapped noncommercial Oregon station KBOO with a $7,000 fine. Its crime: playing Sarah Jones' "Your Revolution," a sexually explicit slap at hip-hop misogyny. Now the commission has rescinded the fine.
AskMen.com November 26, 2002 Jordan Stein	Is Hip-Hop Taking Over Fashion, Y'All? The staggering success of rap has generated a nouveau riche sensibility. It's become cliched yet mandatory for rappers to flaunt Cristal, fleets of Cadillacs and diamond-encrusted Rolexes. Fashion was simply the next worldly possession on the list.
Salon.com November 15, 2002 Andrew Sullivan	Idiocy of the week Using Eminem, badly, for political gain. A look at two comments in the press about Eminem and politics.
Salon.com November 8, 2002 Stephanie Zacharek	The Marshall Mathers movie Can Eminem act? Who knows? But his star turn in "8 Mile," as an aspiring rapper growing up poor and white in Motown, is memorable -- even if we've seen it all before.
Salon.com November 1, 2002 Sheerly Avni	Jam Master Jay, 1965-2002 The pioneering DJ of Run-DMC was a godfather of '80s Adidas rap-rock -- but he was no thug.
Salon.com September 27, 2002 Eric Boehlert	Hip-hop's murky whodunit Nick Broomfield's dishonest film "Biggie and Tupac" solves nothing about the rap world's most notorious murders.
Salon.com June 10, 2002 Dan Levine	Not the real Slim Shady Are the fake MP3s popping up on file-sharing networks part of the recording industry's war on piracy, or just the latest in music marketing?
Salon.com June 3, 2002 Laura K. Warrell	"Fight the Power" Public Enemy's explosive 1989 hit single brought hip hop to the mainstream -- and brought revolutionary anger back to pop...
Salon.com May 14, 2002 Eric Boehlert	"Labyrinth" by Randall Sullivan A former LAPD detective says a police conspiracy stopped him from solving the murder of Notorious B.I.G., but can he really make his case?
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