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posted: September 12, 2012

Gaga shaves for a reason. Not yet smooth, but still criminal. This is one hot ticket. You could have chosen a less feminine“looking sugar skull, Chris. The RIAA stays ruthless. Russell Simmons gets it right.
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Frank Ocean Drops Def Jam Debut

posted: July 17, 2012

One week after his groundbreaking admission that he is gay, Frank Ocean is making headlines for a different reason. HDD predicts he’ll move more than 125,000 copies of his Def Jam debut in its first week…
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Soundcheck: Who Will Occupy Hip-Hop?

posted: October 25, 2011

Look around, and it’s starting to look more and more like the sixties than the new millennium. People are protesting about everything from the war, poverty, joblessness, race relations, civil rights, health care, abortion and…
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Artists-In-Occupation: Musicians And #OccupyWallStreet

posted: October 17, 2011

The tradition of protest music has a long, rich tradition in America. From nascent beginnings in the early twentieth century and the labor movement to the great civil rights protest songs of the ’60s to…
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Soundcheck: Chris Brown – The Cost Of F.A.M.E.

posted: March 29, 2011

Chris Brown‘s temper has made headlines again, this time, on the heels of his latest full-length release, F.A.M.E. The freshly-tatted, newly blonde, Brown destroyed his dressing room, threw a chair through a window and stormed…
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New Kids On The Block: Willow Smith and Diggy Simmons

posted: October 22, 2010

Move over Bieber¦there’s a new batch of fresh-faced, super-kids coming for your crown, and they’re packing some serious street cred. In addition to breakout internet stars like The Astronomical Kid (14-year-old Brooklynite Brian Bradley), two…
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