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Kendrick Lamar Feeds the People, Inspires Authors with New LP

As a weary traveler writing this article in one of Taiwan’s Taipei Airports, I’m reminded of the many highlights of my trip to Indonesia, but as the saying goes, “There’s…

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No Matter What Dame Dash Says, Being “Normal” & Having A Job is Okay

Former Rap Mogul Dame Dash said in a recent interview with Power 105’s Breakfast Club, “If a man isn’t a boss, then he isn’t a real man.” 15 years ago…

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Geraldo Rivera Thinks Hip-Hop Culture is Limiting Our Success. Is He Right?

Journalist and TV personality Geraldo Rivera recently appeared on HuffPost Live for a discussion on his political views. What started out as a conversation with host Josh Zepps about Rivera’s…

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Kendrick Lamar’s Blacker The Berry & How The Black-On-Black Crime Argument Hurts the Progress Against Police Brutality

Imagine if you were a guest speaker on “The O’ Reilly Factor” and you argued that police brutality is an unacceptable problem in Black communities that the government has to…

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Kristinia DeBarge Paves Her Own Lane While Contributing To Family Legacy

Kristinia DeBarge is a beautiful, intelligent and captivating songstress out of Pasadena, California, who knew she wanted to sing at the tender age of three. Makes sense coming from the…

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2014 in Hip-Hop: Our Case for Best Hip-Hop Album of the Year

Needless to say 2014 won’t be remembered as one of Hip-Hop’s best years. In fact, one might say it was a darn right bad year for anyone in music not…

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Top Ten Worst Songs of 2014

As this year winds down to an end, I am yet again tasked with the burden of shifting through piles of shit to bring you the top ten worst songs…

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What Happened To Hip-Hop?

What ever happened to the original Hip-Hop? The music that reflected the times Celebrating the good times Surviving the bad Now Hip-Hop is remixed Reflecting Rims, Killing snitches Coppin’ Gold…

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Fight For Freedom For Blacks Continues

We’ve witnessed our people swing from the trees of social injustice. We’ve witnessed our people brutally beat down due to the political inequality of democracy. We’ve witnessed the destruction of…

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The new police are the war police

What has the war on terror and the war on drugs done to the police forces around our country? It seems these changes in the local police policy have turned…

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