Combining the influence of American hip-hop and African rhythms, he developed his own reggae-tinged, peace-promoting sound.
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"I didn't want to do a film that could be lumped into the black hip- hop-shoot-em-up-gangster-drug movie, " Lee says.
Four years ago hip-hop artist Lil Jon asked custom jeweler Jason Arasheben to make him something that was truly one-of-a-kind.
However, unlike previous so-called alternative hip-hop artists like Arrested Development or Will Smith, West never lost street cred with hip-hop's A list.
Sabino Canyon Tours offers a hop-on, hop-off tram that stops at a variety of well-marked hiking trails, including the trailhead for Seven Falls.
His hard-hitting hip-hop record Ill Manors accompanies his film of the same name - a tale of life on the streets of London.
On trips through the South, for example, he's created playlists that have included crunk (Southern hip-hop) and Southern alternative-rock bands like Drive-By Truckers.
But as long as hip-hop's hold on pop culture remains strong, the number of rappers crossing-over into the movies is expected to grow.
Ghostface Killah and Raekwon made their marks on hip-hop and still do today, but they enjoyed more successes as members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
But it seems like most of rock-and-roll and even hip-hop have built on the Kerouac-cum-James Dean-via-Nirvana mythos of the troubled teen struggling against the world.
The mainstream press has taken notice, too, drawing attention to Glasper's hip-hop-inflected rhythms and his associations with artists such as Mos Def, Common, Q-Tip and Erykah Badu.
It was almost like a hip-hop heaven sort of moment for me and really a full circle, because hip-hop is so powerful and so strong in Senegal.
Working in California with coach Teri McKeever, she does hip-hop, yoga, Pilates and spin classes, trying to become a better all-around athlete instead of just a swimmer.
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Most hip-hop artists nowadays prime the pump with gray-market mixtape CDs that add guest tracks, skits, freestyles, and other second-drawer material to scattered previews of their next album.
And I think it's very possible right now for white kids to experience hip-hop without experiencing any ideas of blackness or any ideas of connecting with the African-American community.
Its Bellydance: Fitness for Weight Loss, Hip Drop Hip Hop--30 minutes of traditional hip- and rib-wriggling motions set to a modern, upbeat tempo--burns calories and fat, while supposedly aiding digestion.
If you believe that art and commerce and provocation and fun -- and hip- hop and disco and teen pop -- can all be one and the same, here's a record for you.
Also worth a try is the Pere Jacques, a Belgian-style abbey ale with caramel notes, while hop-lovers should sample the Revolution Double Fist, a faintly pine-scented pale ale with a hefty 8% alcohol content.
He dispatched a Graeme Swann long-hop to the mid-wicket boundary to bring up a half-century stand, and reached his own maiden fifty in his fourth Test from 47 balls, 44 of those runs coming in boundaries.
She never mentions Amy Winehouse by name, but from the castigation of her target's "junkie routine" to the hip-hop sheen coating the girl-group glitter of multi-instrumentalist Adam Pallin's brightly chiming piano, it could hardly be anyone else.
On the evening before the Super Bowl a mix of celebrities (including home run king Barry Bonds and hip-hop impresario Jay-Z), high rollers and rabid fans crammed into the 12, 000-seat arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Assistant Treasury Secretary Alastair Fitzpayne wrote in a letter Tuesday to congressional representatives that the famous hip-hop couple traveled to Cuba with a group authorized by the Office of Foreign Assets Control to promote people-to-people contact in Cuba.
As such, the country's rap and hip-hop scene has exploded in popularity in urban centers -- where internet access is highest -- as home-grown artists take advantage of the ability to share and distribute their productions more widely.
Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you can hear the influence of hip-hop and rap, which have become the lingua franca of Afro-Latinos, African-Americans and just about anyone under the age of 25 in the rest of the world.
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.
The survey asked whether people think that hip-hop and rap are a positive influence on society or a negative influence on society, and majorities of all groups - blacks, whites and Hispanics - agreed that hip-hop has had a bad influence on society, most particularly the rap portion of hip-hop.
It was a major growth moment for me as an artist because, you know, I'm committed to my mission of using hip-hop to - as a tool for social change and using hip-hop as a way to spread information, correct information about the music and the culture and about me as an American and me as a black American woman, and going to Indonesia was an intense experience.
Everybody is winning because hip-hop has been in a slump, and there hasn't been anything interesting going on in hip-hop for a while now.
The hip-hop legend cofounded his eponymous headphone line with Interscope Records chief Jimmy Iovine and quickly developed a mutually-beneficial manufacturing arrangement with Monster.
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