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    Photo: Award Winning Movie “South Coast,” from Fractured Films, Hits the Streets
    Award Winning Movie “South Coast,” from Fractured Films, Hits the Streets

    ‘South Coast’ is a character driven documentary about how a culture as intrinsically American as hip hop has taken root and mutated in a quintessentially British way in the least likely of places…. its seaside towns.

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    Photo: Busta Rhymes Apologizes, Pulls Song “Arab Money”
    Busta Rhymes Apologizes, Pulls Song “Arab Money”

    Busta offers apology, extends arm out to Arab community through Narcy.

    Politics »


    Photo: Rapper Common: Obama will change hip-hop’s attitude
    Rapper Common: Obama will change hip-hop’s attitude

    The rapper Common wants to take hip-hop in a new direction, he says, and he has an unsuspecting ally — President-elect Barack Obama.

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    Photo: How the World Views America
    How the World Views America

    For the past year, twenty-something Washington Post reporter Amar Bakshi has traveled across the globe talking to ordinary people of his generation — farmers, rebels, rappers, laborers — whose primary experience of the United States has been with George W. Bush at the helm.
    What he found was eye-opening. Having just returned to the U.S. […]

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    Photo: Hip Hop and the Lost Children of Afghanistan
    Hip Hop and the Lost Children of Afghanistan

    There would seem to be little connection between war orphans in Afghanistan and hip hop, but organizer Shamsia Razaqi hopes hip hop can make a difference. Justin Collins interviewed Razaqi for Silicon Valley De-Bug.