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hip-hop journalism participatory survey
ohword.com - 12/2/2008
hip-hop journalism participatory survey
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Let us survey the landscape of hip-hop journalism a bit and ask have there been great works done in that realm this year? There were Smoking Gun exposes, Unkut interviews and too many poorly thought out blogger rants to list. But when I think back on the stories that stand out from this ...

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Other Music from a... Different Kitchen:  Video: Antipop Consortium Live at Other Music in NYC

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Video: Antipop Consortium Live at Other Music in NYC
Other Music from a... Different Kitchen — ... I never f-cked with these dudes when they were first around back in the 90's but I checked this video out on the recommnedation of Rafi n them. I actually really like the first full song (with rhymes) in the video and in a lot of way, they are a precursor of what Mickey Factz is trying to do nowadays mixing electronica with straight-up hip hop. [via ...

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