Lucky for Suri, hip-hop and hustle go hand-in-hand.

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But I think, overall, hip-hop has won because people are talking again the - people were really motivated to go out and buy the albums of both of them - and the last album, the last rap album that topped the charts, Common, who sold like a hundred thousand.

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In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.

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Ms. LATIFAH: Hip-hop and music and culture is going anywhere I go.

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The Tate gallery, a New York bhangra act and a dance troupe who mix hip-hop with morris dancing are to receive National Lottery money to go on tour.

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But after the opening sequence, which is edited to the hip-hop rhythm of a number by the female rappers Nikki D and Cee Asia, the movie starts to go wrong.

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