Mr. JEMAINE CLEMENT (Member, Flight of the Conchords): (Rapping) They call me the hiphop-popotamus.

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But hiphop and rap were flourishing, angry lyrics being shouted out of Magnolia and St.

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Many of our most successful products came out of hackathons, including Timeline, chat, video, our mobile development framework and some of our most important infrastructure like the HipHop compiler.

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Master P, raised in the Calliope Projects, was a true hiphop hero to African-American youths, admired both for such outrageous hits as "99 Ways to Die" and for being CEO and founder of No Limit Records.

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Eminem was also named best hiphop artist.

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