Hip Hop & Rap

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Fast Company John Paul Titlow	Why Did Drake's "Hotline Bling" Fail To Top Billboard Charts? Blame Apple Music So why isn't "Hotline Bling" number one on the Billboard Hot 100? Turns out it's Apple's fault.
AskMen.com Eric Santos	Business Lessons From Drake Both rappers and entrepreneurs are always challenging social norms. They are hip, cool and creative. They are the modern day's rock stars. When they're first starting out, they dream about signing deals -- VC and record deals. They also both have a ridiculously strong hustle and work ethic.
AskMen.com November 29, 2014	Red Bull B-Boy One Paris 2014 No matter how much or how little you know about hip-hop culture, every guy has gotten down on the ground at some point and tried to pull off a break dance move.
Fast Company KC Ifeanyi	How El-P and Killer Mike Built The Creative Powerhouse That Is Run The Jewels Run The Jewels recently spoke with Fast Company about the power of collaboration, working (or yelling) through creative differences, and why an album of cat noises will call attention to injustice.
Fast Company Ayana Byrd	How Filmmaker Erik Parker Is Reigniting Nas's Illmatic On Its 20th Anniversary A documentary called Time is Illmatic, which Erik Parker wrote and produced over the course of 10 years, premieres in the coveted position of opening night at the Tribeca Film festival, and the screening will be followed by Nas himself performing the album.
Fast Company Samantha Cole	Tuning Out: How A Lightning-Fast Rapper Finds His Focus Pedro Antonio Rojas Jr., known on the mic as Tonedeff, is a fast talker -- 14.5 syllables per second to be exact. But getting focused, he says, means logging off of social media when it becomes overwhelming.
AskMen.com April 5, 2013	Bob Costas Gives Props To Ludacris Bob Costas might be the last person one would expect to throw down a verse from a Ludacris song on live television. Yet that's exactly what Costas did during an interview on the MLB Network recently.
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