GODFATHER OF WEST COAST RAP TELLS ALL: Lonzo Williams releases DVD documentary ‘Once Upon A Time In Compton.’

September 8, 2008 – 6:47 pm

Lonzo Williams

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Egypt to DNA test Tutankhamun’s ‘children’

August 8, 2008 – 6:01 am

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You Ain’t Sayin Nuthin: Rap Music’s Lost Message

August 8, 2008 – 5:33 am

People thinking MC is shorthand for misconception”
Talib Kweli-”Definition”
Maybe sales are down because nobody wants to hear what you have to say…
“I think I chose to become a rapper because I had alot of things I wanted to say and I wanted to make sure it reached the people. I didn’t want it to go over [...]

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Esperanza Spalding’s CD blends jazz, Brazil, hip-hop

June 24, 2008 – 1:49 pm

Esperanza Spalding, a 23-year-old bassist, vocalist and composer from Portland, Ore., is so wildly talented that when her publicity material announces that she “might well be the hope for the future of jazz and instrumental music,” it seems like a reasonable proposition. But Spalding, whose new album, “Esperanza” (Heads Up International), is a sprawling collage [...]

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Afrika Bambaataa on Hip Hop, gangs and the 5th element

May 28, 2008 – 12:07 pm

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Afrika Bambaataa - The beginning of the Zulu Nation

May 28, 2008 – 12:03 pm

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Tribute to Kool Herc

May 28, 2008 – 12:01 pm

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Kool herc the origin of hip hop

May 28, 2008 – 11:56 am

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