Despite a star-studded show featuring dynamic performances from Herbie Hancock, Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 and beat-boxer/old-school rapper Doug
E. Fresh, arguably the best moment of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz’s BeBop to Hip-Hop’s hourlong program occurred before the concert even began.
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IT’S Bun B’s 35th birthday and he says he isn’t doing anything to celebrate.
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“Sorry, underground hip-hop happened ten years ago.”
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Lupe Fiasco “The Cool” (Atlantic) * * * Lupe Fiasco is all about subverting the dominant hip-hop paradigm.
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Shortly before Lupe Fiasco kicked off Power 106’s annual Cali
Christmas show on Thursday, the popular urban station brought
venerable radio host Big Boy on stage to warm up the audience.
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A J Dilla song roared over the loudspeakers of a packed El Rey
Thursday as Stones Throw rap record label impresario Peanut Butter
Wolf told a near-capacity crowd of post-backpackers that, “This isn’t
some bandwagon .
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A decade after most of his Wu-Tang Clan brethren peaked, rapper
Ghostface Killah has stayed consistently great, releasing one
excellent solo record after the next, in the process compiling one of
the most storied discographies in hip-hop history, a catalog that was
on full display Tuesday night at
UCLA’s Ackerman Grand Ballroom.
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With
DJ Shadow focused on making hyphy records and
RJD2 abandoning
hip-hop altogether, it’s been a tough last couple of years for fans
of hip-hop instrumentalism.
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