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So you think they can break-dance?
Forget the Bronx and South Central. If you want to find the best hip-hop dancers in the world look farther east, to South Korea.
By Jeff Chang
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| Published Jun 27, 2008 - 04:25 PM |  |
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Want to save the music business? Manage a band. Nurture talent. Do everything in your power to get it exposed. Don’t sit in front of your computer dreaming of new schemes of distribution… You’ll never get the rights!
Talent. That’s where the business is focused today.
Kind of funny if you think about it, because talent has never been so confused. Do you follow your own muse, or deliver the Top Forty hit the major label wants? Do you record other people’s material? Do you try out for "American Idol", hoping to be rocketed to fame? Do you believe your parents and girlfriend when they say you are good, or are you willing to go to an independent expert for a more honest appraisal?
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| Published Jun 25, 2008 - 01:00 PM | |
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By KAREN TUMULTY/WASHINGTON
Thu Jun 12, 9:20 AM ET
As long as there have been rumors in politics, there has been one widely accepted way for a candidate to deal with them. Basically, it's not to. Otherwise, according to prevailing wisdom, all a candidate achieves is to elevate the rumors to a legitimate story for the media to feast on. That don't-go-there approach was Barack Obama's plan for months until, on the candidate's first full day of campaigning as his party's presumed presidential nominee, a reporter from McClatchy Newspapers who was traveling aboard his plane asked him about a particularly toxic bit of hearsay that was zooming around the Internet about his wife Michelle. Obama lost his cool. "We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails, and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it," Obama said, bristling. "That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it."
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Note: nrg note: be informed, its the most pro-active job a citizen can take on. decide for yourself and vote based on what YOU decide.
| Published Jun 12, 2008 - 01:47 PM | |
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Idle Hands :: Why The Candidates Must Focus On Young Americans
By Jeff Chang
This summer could be the worst ever for teens looking for work, according to experts. Less than one in three youths may find summer jobs.
In recent years, the youth jobless rate has soared to record highs. In cities like Chicago, three in four teens, including seven in eight Black teens, did not work in 2006. But this summer could mark the highest level of youth joblessness since the end of World War II.
The shrinking economy and rising unemployment rates are to blame, as laid-off workers compete with young people for shrinking piece of the pie. Budget cuts have led to the ending of federal, state, and city youth jobs programs.
But the biggest problem is a lack of political interest.
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| Published Jun 12, 2008 - 01:25 AM | |
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by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com
In March close-to-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was blunt when asked if he would be Hillary Clinton's vice presidential running mate, "I'm not running for vice president." Clinton would likely give the same blunt answer to the silly talk that he should pick her as his running mate. But even if she didn't and there was the unlikely possibility that Obama would consider her, an Obama-Clinton pairing would be no sure fire ticket to the White House.
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| Published Jun 02, 2008 - 11:10 PM | |
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Dele Fadele April 11, 2008
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/04/all_hail_hiphops_ageing_parent.html
Thirty-one years on from its origins in the South Bronx, New York, hip-hop has metamorphosed into a billion-dollar industry; a cut-throat, fast-turnover model of capitalism. It's a wonder that some artists have evolved with hip-hop, not fallen by the wayside, to prosper as vanguards of the original culture. These are hip-hop's elder statesmen and women, those who bring light when hip-hop threatens to fall into a darkened abyss.
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| Published Jun 02, 2008 - 10:48 PM | |
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Win $1500 by Writing a 2-page Essay!
In an effort to promote and sustain the writing and critical thinking skills of the younger generations, underground rapper and revolutionary, Immortal Technique, is inviting high school students to write essays about their perceptions and/or experiences in regards to the United States' relations to the third world in general, or a third world country/countries in particular. The essays must be original work and must be limited to 500-750 words. Immortal Technique will read the essays and choose the top three.
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Note: hiphop doing good stuff. I wish this was national news worthy. You Too?
| Published Jun 02, 2008 - 10:16 PM | |
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By Sewell Chan
Ricky Walters, a 43-year-old hip-hop pioneer known for the rap classic "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick" and was convicted of attempted murder in 1991, has received a full pardon from Gov. David A.Paterson.
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| Published Jun 02, 2008 - 10:11 PM | |
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a voice
by Brian Ngugi, Nairobi,Kenya.
A quiet revolution is taking place in Kenyan slums. Driven by need to bring about social change, various youth in slums within Nairobi, the capital city, have coalesced under the banner, Hip-Hop parliament.
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| Published Jun 02, 2008 - 10:03 PM | |
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nrg note: I am not out enough to know if this is happening in KC, but thinking and doing are partners. If this is happening in hiphop, you know the implecation, yea its happening in the world. I offer this up as food for thought, if you are a guy, can you imagine how it would feel to be treated with disregard or more real, your mother, sisters, wives and daughters are trying to make it through this gauntlet everyday all day. we need your help the make it through! please
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