As such, the country's rap and hip-hop scene has exploded in popularity in urban centers -- where internet access is highest -- as home-grown artists take advantage of the ability to share and distribute their productions more widely.
Urban Light has become an iconic setting in the city of angels: It's the scene of countless wedding photos and postcards, appears in Tori Amos's "Maybe California" music video and is the backdrop of Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher's fight scene in the film No Strings Attached.
The stories sound like urban legends, only they're true: A judge halts the distribution of a Bruce Willis movie because one scene resembles a drawing by an avant-garde architect.