One such factory is Hop Lun, the Bangladesh outpost of Hong Kong-based Hop Lun Ltd.
But the arguments of many of hip hop's critics demand little engagement with hip hop.
Prior to the ban, Hop Lun also supplied garments for Wal-Mart's George clothing brand, Hop Lun said.
But hip hop's critics ignore how some of the sharpest criticism comes from within hip hop's borders.
Such a decision would put hundreds of British jobs at risk and would once again deprive Londoners of the much-loved hop-on, hop-off service.
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.
Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Recordings and the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, is arguably the most political member of the hip-hop community.
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.
Hip-hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons called Obama the "first hip-hop" presidential candidate.
Instrumental hip-hop artist and producer Ramble John Khron, better known as RJD2, emerged as an exciting new voice in hip-hop after the release of his 2002 debut album, Deadringer.
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.
Unlike Kilson, the best "hip hop intellectuals" dig deep into hip hop's rich traditions of expression to generate a criticism equal to the art that inspires it.
Hop Lun closed the building for renovations, said Walter Brennan, Hop Lun's Hong Kong-based director of compliance and communications, even though he said engineers found it to be structurally sound.
At the same time, within the big markets, a range of new genres hip-hop, trip-hop, lounge, acid house, acid jazz, and many, many more are growing at the expense of the mainstream.
Making full use of the nearby Motueka hop gardens, American expat Jim Matranga produces around a dozen beers, including the Seismic IPA hop-bomb, best enjoyed in the sunshine with a burrito in hand.
Seven buses with an open hop-on hop-off platform at the rear hit downtown streets on 20 February, running on route 38, between Victoria Station and Hackney, an east London neighbourhood.
The Super Bowl halftime has had hip-hop artists but never a solo hip-hop headliner, so there's history to be made there, and Carter has lots of experience playing major events Glastonbury, etc.
On the day of my hip hop tour of Gabon, the government sponsored a free streetside concert with Amenem, Tina and Ba'Ponga warming up the stage for Senegalese-born U.S hip-hop star Akon.
Such a gap, she argued, poses a problem for the very system the city has pledged to provide: a hop-on, hop-off network to shorten walking commutes and connect neighborhoods poorly served by mass transit.
So when we think about Hip Hop, I think that there would be some that would credibly argue that Hip Hop has really influenced and is the most influential component of popular culture today.
One person trying to nurture Chinese hip-hop is DJ V-Nutz also known as Gary Wang, a Chinese DJ who recently opened The Lab, a nonprofit music studio meant to help Shanghai develop its own hip-hop style.
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.
The global impact of hip hop is being studied by scholars like Deborah Wong at the University of California Riverside, who covers Asian hip hop, and Marcyliena Morgan at Stanford University, who researches hip hop in Cuba and England.
And so, I mean, I'll always write--I mean, even if it's, you know, behind the scenes or--I mean, because I most definitely don't want to be an older, you know, entertainer--hip hop entertainer because to me hip hop is all about youth, you know?
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.
By focusing on the rappers, producers and label owners including interviews with Lil Wayne, Gucci Mane, Big Boi, Scarface, Luke Campbell and other pioneers Westhoff makes the case for the cultural significance of southern hip-hop not only on its own, but as a driving force behind the elements of hip-hop currently working their way into mainstream pop music.
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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.
Black Wolf's singing is timeless, and the album, Noble says, takes its cues from hip-hop.
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