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Monday Feb 6 | AllHipHop.com

Who Speaks for the 'Hood?: How Black Leaders Failed Us

"Follow the leader is the title, theme, task/ Now ya know, you don't have to ask." - "Follow the Leader", Eric B and Rakim An election was held in Harlem yesterday to elect a new national Black leader.

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Related Topix: Eric B. & Rakim, Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, African-American, Documentary Movies, Malcolm X, Drama Movies, Biography Movies

Sat Feb 04, 2012

95.7 The Beat

Eric B. & Rakim

They never had a mainstream hit of their own, but during rap's so-called golden age in the late '80s, Eric B. & Rakim were almost universally recognized as the premier DJ/MC team in all of hip-hop. Not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art ... MORE

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Eric B. & Rakim, Black Entertainment

Wed Feb 01, 2012

HipHopDx

[News] ASAP Rocky Surprised By Rakim On "The Angie Martinez Show"

ASAP Rocky's mother is evidently an old school Hip Hop fan, as she named her son after legendary emcee Rakim .

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Related Topix: Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, Angie Martinez

AllHipHop.com

Don Cornelius Commits Suicide

In recent years, the 75-year-old was in failing health and according to various sources, he suffered from dementia.

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Related Topix: Eric B. & Rakim, Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, De la Soul

Tue Jan 31, 2012

Wall Street Journal

The Pop Scene: Sonic Science Projects

Hip-Hop may have been born in New York, but it moved out of the five boroughs in around 2000, when its most vital and progressive statements were being produced in Southern locales like Memphis, Atlanta, New Orleans and Houston - each city making its own hip-hop superstars, with New York's hometown heroes forced to the sidelines.

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Related Topix: New York, Gotham, Advertising, Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Eric B. & Rakim

Sat Jan 28, 2012

Boston.com

A$AP Rocky leads the - cloud rap' storm

A$AP Rocky says, "I want to take every value of every state and mash it into this one revolutionary type of artist.'' As Rakim famously rapped in 1987, it's not where you're from, but where you're at.

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Related Topix: Harlem (New York, NY), Black Entertainment, Hip-Hop, Rap, The Notorious B.I.G.

Tue Jan 17, 2012

AllHipHop.com

Funk Legend Jimmy Castor Passes Away at 64

Fans were alerted that the funk and disco player, oft sampled throughout hip-hop's history, passed via a family member's Twitter page.

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Related Topix: Eric B. & Rakim, Hip-Hop, Black Entertainment, Celebrities, Kanye West, Mos Def

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