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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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Soundcheck: 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards: Scathing Cyphers, Political Points, and Missing Winners
posted: October 18, 2011
The 2011 BET Hip Hop Awards was filmed in Atlanta on October 1 and aired on BET last week. Packed with powerful performances and full of surprises, the show offered the world a glimpse of…
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H2-O Vs. Nas
posted: October 15, 2011
New York City, as the birthplace of hip hop, was the cultural center of the famous feud between the east and west coast hip hop communities back in the 1990s. During this time both sides…
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OurStage's Leading Ladies Have A Gift For You
posted: September 21, 2011
Long gone are the days that women sit back and let men have all the fun. So far gone, in fact, that last month we decided to let the men sit back and watch as…
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Press Shuffle: Songs To Freestyle To
posted: September 21, 2011
This week our targets are the Urban Channels. We focus particularly on the rhythmic characteristics of these genres: anything from vocal metrical structure to thick, groovy bass lines to old-school drum samples. There’s so much…
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The Band Called Fuse Vs. Rage Against The Machine
posted: August 27, 2011
In our latest edition of Vs. we bring you New Jersey-based The Band Called Fuse and pit them against the politically-charged rock-rap hybrid of Rage Against The Machine. Like Rage Against The Machine, The Band…
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