Alvarez and his staff bring their Beats Rhymes and Life hip-hop sessions to young people out in the community hosting the program in schools, mental health facilities, at youth centers and in public libraries.
And one of the points that she makes, this is "100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs, " but you don't pretend this is the 100 greatest songs.
The other clings to urban hip-hop like a life raft.
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So, I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if I actually put this into book form and showed the diversity of ways that I used hip-hop in my everyday life.
You know, I've been to rap concerts where there were white rappers and completely white audiences, and they're not rapping about, you know, the kind of traditional hip-hop concerns about what life is like in the African-American community.
Well, whether it's hip-hop, country, whatever, what life lessons have you leaned from your music?
And hip-hop music videos celebrate the "Thug Life" and "gansta" attitude for any young black person seeking strong racial identity.
But I suppose family life, challenging knitting patterns and the odd hip replacement will fill the void.
But how do you think your life has played out in terms of how hip-hop has played out?
The hard kick and snare is patterned after Allen Toussaint's classic "Get Out Of My Life, Woman" breakbeat, sampled on dozens of hip-hop songs.
There was also the prospect of long-term damage to the joint, plus a hip replacement, that would have affected his day-to-day life outside cricket.
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Three months before the transplant, stem cells were removed from Claudia's nose and hip in preparation for the six-hour operation that would change her life.
In addition to speaking engagements, she is writing a memoir about her life with AIDS and trying to produce a television special using hip-hop music and celebrities to raise awareness in the younger generation.
It uses NFC-equipped tags that pop into the end of each club and a hip-mounted "GYG" device to collect the data with a battery life of two rounds (about 8 hours) -- and no need to pack a smartphone or tablet onto the course.
His hard-hitting hip-hop record Ill Manors accompanies his film of the same name - a tale of life on the streets of London.
"I started one of the country's first hip-hop therapy programs, " said Alvarez, who co-founded Beats Rhymes and Life, a nonprofit that provides free counseling sessions to Bay Area youth.
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