It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
My dilemma was how to go from a suit-wearing, briefcase-carrying businessman (who was secretly listening to hip-hop) to creating a brand in business unique to myself (without selling out).
Their label's name is supposed to be a nod to both first-growth wines and to hip-hop, a genre whose musicians refer to their ensembles as crews.
Such a gap, she argued, poses a problem for the very system the city has pledged to provide: a hop-on, hop-off network to shorten walking commutes and connect neighborhoods poorly served by mass transit.
After London Tabu-Flo hopes to compete in the world hip-hop dance championships, to be held in Las Vegas in July.
The downtown fashion crowd looking for that edgy, experimental, or "old-school hip-hop" look head to the shops in the Lower East Side.
This hipster hangout hosts an eclectic mix of live music acts ranging from avant-garde to Arabic hip-hop and Hebrew folk ensembles.
Every genre from rock to hip-hop to country music is explored here.
There used to be this understanding that to really listen to hip-hop you had to really get into the community and sort of remove yourself from yourself.
The Super Bowl halftime has had hip-hop artists but never a solo hip-hop headliner, so there's history to be made there, and Carter has lots of experience playing major events Glastonbury, etc.
What is your generation going to do to make sure that hip-hop continues to grow and elevate and expand?
According to former Mattel designer Carter Bryant, messing with Barbie had become so taboo at the company that he took his idea for dolls with big heads and dressed in hip-hop clothes to competitor MGA in 2000--where they became Barbie's first true rival, Bratz.
Assistant Treasury Secretary Alastair Fitzpayne wrote in a letter Tuesday to congressional representatives that the famous hip-hop couple traveled to Cuba with a group authorized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba.
Born in London, but raised in New York, he attended Harvard University, where he studied film and animation before dropping out in the mid-1990s to help launch a hip-hop music label, Rawkus Records.
Overnight partner Ramnaresh Sarwan was similarly subdued in adding five to his overnight 39 before swatting a Nel long-hop to deep point.
T-Mobile, using a Nokia phone, is allowing customers to hop between Wi-Fi and cellular.
The audience of 54, 000 would-be real estate millionaires has been whipped into a frenzy by two dozen hip-hop dancers gyrating to the slick theme music from The Apprentice.
Because if you sort of look at the way that people now listen to hip-hop, I think that it used to require a sort of cultural investment.
From a business perspective, that might just make K-Pop the most commercially potent genre to emerge since hip-hop.
In addition to speaking engagements, she is writing a memoir about her life with AIDS and trying to produce a television special using hip-hop music and celebrities to raise awareness in the younger generation.
The music critic in me understood that the Hot 8 was one of the most interesting of the brass bands to blend hip-hop and really, you know, contemporary to the minute music and style with that tradition.
To be sure, hip-hop is too diverse a genre to find itself in total opposition to Occupy Wall Street.
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Over the past five years, I've reported on topics from tourism in Sierra Leone to flying boats in British Columbia to the earning power of Hip-Hop Cash Kings like Jay-Z, interviewing personalities from Dr. Ruth to 50 Cent in the process.
And so, I mean, I'll always write--I mean, even if it's, you know, behind the scenes or--I mean, because I most definitely don't want to be an older, you know, entertainer--hip hop entertainer because to me hip hop is all about youth, you know?
Yet if you want to see successful 21st-century urbanism, hop on down to Houston and Texas, the Lone Star State.
Dr. MAYA ROCKEYMOORE (Policy Analyst, Author, "The Political Action Handbook: A How-To Guide for the Hip-Hop Generation"): Thank you.
The recently opened Ministry of Sound plays music ranging from hip-hop to Chinese pop.
And it looks like the fantasy football method of assembling projects is spreading from hip-hop to rock, which I think is great.
The small-but-steady approach of birds, bees, and ants offers a better model for changing human behavior than the hop-to-it top-down model used by many companies and governments.
The "mad genius" concocts music that is as mesmerizing as it is odd and eclectic, running the gamut from electronic trip-hop to guitar heavy arena rock and earnest, acoustic singer-songwriter work.
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