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So much of social media and relationship marketing revolves around storytelling, and this is especially true for nonprofits.

Within the tracks of Troubadour lies dusty-footed poetry for all nations of hip hop, as Somalia-born emcee K'NAAN raps a wiser worldview with a tightened flow.

June 16, 2009 @ 1:18 pm THE BEST RAPPER EVER: The Elite Eight VIBE Staff Lil Wayne Falls It's official: The so-called "Best Rapper Alive" isn't The Best Rapper Ever, at least not according to the fans voting for The Best Rapper Ever at VIBE.com. In a face-off spanning generations and styles, KRS-One, who once famously claimed, "I am hip hop," took ...

Erstwhile Roots member Scratch reaffirms his status as one of the best beatbox artists by transforming hip-hop classics -- including songs by Eric B & Rakim, T La Rock, and Public Enemy -- into beatbox art.

M.O.P. have stomped around Hip-Hop's battlefield for quite sometime all the while crafting some of the most frenetic, aggressive and lyrical songs ever.

Straight up, I like ill MC's The rappers that I have always gravitated to were the dudes that made me think, "I wish I thought that" of "How the hell did he think of that?" When I crafted my list, that is what I had in mind, my favorite ill MC's. Certainly there are the standard greats from every era , but these are the illest that I like.

S hawnna loves Hip-Hop is ways the voyeur cannot fathom. So naturally she is concerned about pinpointing her Top 5 favorite rap artists.

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 in their respective skills.

DJ Quik might possibly one of the most talkative artists on the planet. But after news of him speaking on Detox hit the Internet [ click to read ], the multi-dimensional Compton native has been censoring himself.

In Part 2 of this "lost and found" interview with Hip-Hop legend Rakim, the Microphone Fiend delves deeper into his life and times.

R akim is one of the most influential artists ever, but that didn't stop me from somehow losing my first and only interview with the "god of rap." After some moving and some searching, the 30-minute chat has been unearthed.

It's probably a good thing to start with the fact that I had been drinking. And, when I say, "drinking," I don't mean a-couple-of-brews-while-I'm-grilling-burgers drinking, I mean, me-and-my-brother-no-plans-on-driving-settled-in-for-the-evening-at-my-parents-house-brown-liquor-grown-man drinking, and while I wasn't drunk, I was certainly chatty.

Once it was announced that he would be present at Saviours' Day 2009, everybody wanted to get a glimpse of the hip hop lyrical legend Rakim.

Kagan McLeod Presents the "History of Rap" By Tim Einenkel Illustrator Kagan McLeod put together this "History of Rap" which depicts over 460 artists ranging from James Brown and Cab Calloway to rap emcees like Rakim and Lupe Fiasco.The website Okayplayer.com sat down with McLeod to talk about his "History" piece, as well as his journey in hip-hop ...

March 25, 2009 -- Listening to music you like is a mood booster, and it may also help stroke patients with visual awareness problems do better on neurological tests.

After the veritable avalanche of big-name hip-hop releases 2008 saw, 2009 has been a remarkably quieter year on the beats-and-verses front Dr.

"greatest rapper" list reads differently from most. Ghostface Killah resides at the zenith, beside Rakim's throne, and Minneapolis truth agent Brother Ali a ' who recently toured with those two Gods, and whose ...

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They thought he was mad, they spat him off stage, he hit the drugs ... But Grandmaster Flash gave 'DJ' a whole new meaning.

I hadn't spent two weeks teaching at International Middle, a mostly Somali, mostly Muslim charter school in Minneapolis, before I realized someone should make a movie about these kids.