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Philadelphia. Two white guys in a gleaming white Corvette splashed with streetlights, top down and blaring with bass.
Stank Sentiments for Sweethearts Valentine's Cards
Shirking typical Hallmark sentiments, Stank Sentiments for Sweethearts offers a different kinf of nostalgia with a series of alternative boldface messages that borrow from rap lyrics to woo the one who makes your knees go week.
Born Joseph Foreman, Afroman may be the first artist to achieve a worldwide hit with the assistance of the Internet.
Eric Dickerson Sure Knew How to Party
The year was 1987. Jheri curl juice flowed freely and Los Angeles Rams running back Eric Dickerson was about to be traded to the Indianapolis Colts.
Too Much Joy's Sorry Tale of Warner Bros. and Royalties
Tim Quirk is the Vice President of music programming for Rhapsody, the online music download and streaming service.
Rock out for a good cause at Food 4 Music
A slate of local artists literally will play for food Saturday night. It's not for themselves, though.
Rapper Amanda Blank thinks dirty
Wea re thinking that the fornication-fixated Philadelphia rapper Amanda Blank is a big fan of the Sex Pistols.
Utah Teens Busted for Rapping at McDonald's
You'd think 2 Live Crew had pulled up to the drive-thru at the McDonald's in American Fork, Utah, where a group of teens so terrified one of the employees with their rapping that they were cited for being disorderly in public .
Bad Ideas In Hip-Hop: Porno Rap
Here is the second installment in the series of "Bad Ideas In Hip-Hop." Last week, we examined an obscure, but not forgotten act, The White Boys .
Podcast with rap hitmaker Flo Rida
Rap hit-maker Flo Rida hits Radford University on Saturday. Get show details . In this podcast, we talk about his recent trip overseas, opening shows for Beyonce Knowles and performing for U.S. armed forces, and about his own rump-shaking songs, including collaborations with Nelly Furtado and Wyclef Jean.
Miami Rap Pioneer Gunned Down on Turnpike
He was known as P-Man Sam. And as Sam Silvasteen. And he was involved in Miami's rap scene before 2 Live Crew put it on the map.
Midway through our interview Ted Beck gets up to go to the nearby bathroom - he purposely leaves the door open while he urinates.
After Civil Rights Movement,next generations seek purpose in bravado, hip hop
In Washington, D.C., moments before the Million Man March in 1995, our neighbor across the hall, 'J.R.,' said, 'Our generation don't play that!' They would demand respectful treatment from law enforcement officials patrolling the march, he said.
After Civil Rights Movement,next generations seek purpose in bravado, hip hop
In Washington, D.C., moments before the Million Man March in 1995, our neighbor across the hall, 'J.R.,' said, 'Our generation don't play that!' They would demand respectful treatment from law enforcement officials patrolling the march, he said.
In the 80s, 2 Live Crew brought Miami bass into junior high cafeterias and introduced many of Bostonist's generation to the ideas of being so horny and popping that coochie - and, indirectly, to the concept of misogyny.
During a news conference on Wednesday night, President Obama stood up for the prominent African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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