"I didn't want to do a film that could be lumped into the black hip- hop-shoot-em-up-gangster-drug movie, " Lee says.
Seminal trip-hop group Massive Attack have teamed up with film-maker Adam Curtis to create a live show for the Manchester International Festival.
Ms. JACKIE SALLOUM (Director, "Slingshot Hip-Hop"): Growing up in this country as an Arab-American was pretty challenging when I was younger because, you know, everything I saw on television was really negative.
Then we called the king of hip-hop, Jay-Z, who grew up in the Marcy projects of Brooklyn and was starting to give back to the neighborhood.
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He dispatched a Graeme Swann long-hop to the mid-wicket boundary to bring up a half-century stand, and reached his own maiden fifty in his fourth Test from 47 balls, 44 of those runs coming in boundaries.
As a musician, his innovations in beat-making utilizing pop hooks and organic instrumentation shook up hip-hop and landed him shows with DJ Shadow, El-P, David Lynch and The Roots.
Before Kanye West released his debut last year, many weren't sure if this hip-hop producer could pick up the mike and make it as a wrapper.
Among the cues that this is not a story of the 1960s is the music called kwaito, a hip-hop style that sprang up in the townships only after the end of apartheid.
Because of the 20-mile limit, most of the Mexican trucks checked are short-hop rigs that pick up a load on the Mexican side and bring it across for an American rig to take onwards.
Klein began dancing in fifth grade, when his mother signed him up for hip-hop and tap classes on Long Island without warning him.
Minaj fans dismayed by her post-"Super Bass" turn toward pop will be cheered up by the red-meat hip-hop here.
Bear Republic's brewers thought up Hop Rod Rye over post-work shots of Wild Turkey Rye.
Clinton's rivals have picked up endorsements from the hip-hop crowd as well.
By the time he went away to Phillips Exeter Academy on scholarship, his name was already lighting up the ears of hip-hop heads and music industry insiders around New York.
Growing up listening to a heavy dose of hip-hop and rap, I naturally idolized my urban heroes.
This physical volume control is also new compared to the Fire, which asked you to hop into the UI whenever you wanted to turn up the jams -- or the Audibles, as it were.
Unfortunately, our celebrity culture has placed a priority on public excess, the insatiable need to be richer than the next guy, keep up with the private equity billionaires, the hip-hop entrepreneurs with diamonds in their ear lobes, the Donald Trumps of the world.
On the day of my hip hop tour of Gabon, the government sponsored a free streetside concert with Amenem, Tina and Ba'Ponga warming up the stage for Senegalese-born U.S hip-hop star Akon.
It featured an amazingly talented line-up and has gone down in history as one of the most important hip hop acts of all time.
Using a selection of hip-hop songs that are "positive and sexy, " the class begins simply and works up to a sweaty, hip-twisting, shoulder-shaking finale, followed by a cool-down.
My first web startup was an e-commerce website focused on the street wear industry, serving up everything from hip hop fashion, skate and surf wear to electronics and accessories.
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Ben was kind enough to let us run it first but it will end up on his blog soon, where he starts his posts with a rap or hip-hop lyric.
Take 25-year-old Alejandro Rosso, with his training in classical and jazz music and his love of timeless musicians such as Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock, throw in 22-year-old Jonas, who played in punk bands and was influenced by Nirvana, and you wind up with a mix of multilingual rap, swanky lounge-lizard tempos, frisky hip-hop and playful, inane lyrics.
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