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.
Yet such is the power of film -- and the supportive power of this film's pounding hip-hoppish sound track -- that "Tsotsi" dispels most misgivings as its hero works his tortuous way toward redemption.
It's good political hip-hop music, it's really empowering music.
Well, whether it's hip-hop, country, whatever, what life lessons have you leaned from your music?
Videos on YouTube reveal a rapping Ali Bongo bouncing on stage with Gabon's hip-hop community.
The corporation said 325 viewers complained about footballer Robbie Savage's hip-thrusting performance to the Michael Jackson hit Bad.
As a child, Chestnut was more interested in the music composed by Vince Guaraldi on Peanuts cartoons than Presley's hip-shaking antics.
It's like hip-hop was before there was a bunch of money being made, because we aren't making a bunch of money.
But as he came of age, the city's blossoming hip-hop scene exerted its own gravitational pull, drawing him away from the classroom.
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Once one of the performers on Kenya's emerging hip-hop scene, his brand started to shine when he made clothes for his musician friends.
It also features rap mogul Sean Combs, otherwise known as Diddy, who finally agrees to listen to a demo of the actor's hip-hop music.
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.
"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.
The DJ Grand Wizard Theodore took me for a drive through the neighborhood while he described the mid 1970's world of hip-hop.
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.
Pryce is facing a three-month lay-off with neck surgery, while Eastmond has been ruled out of Friday's game after aggravating a hip injury in Saturday's 40-30 win over Castleford.
Greg Mack co-founded the station KDAY, one of hip-hop's few L.A. radio outlets during the late 1980s.
Rather, it's a 4.0-liter that's essentially like two tight V-4 engines joined at the hip (V plus V equals a W).
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.
Kevin Youkilis (34) was brought in to play third base while A-Rod's hip heals, and Vernon Wells (34) was added in the final week of spring training to fill a corner outfield spot while Granderson's broken forearm gets better.
While Rodriguez rebounded from right hip surgery in March 2009 to help the Yankees to their first World Series title since 2000, Dr. Bryan Kelly said recovery from his operation on A-Rod's left hip this month will be more complex if for no other reason than it receives more stress because Rodriguez is a right-handed hitter.
Considering that these guys were probably in actual grade-school halls when some of those works emerged, it makes Naledge's claim to be "so hip-hop" sound a touch calculated.
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.
There's a new documentary film, Web sites devoted to the roots of hip-hop, and there's even a map of key spots in the neighborhood's musical past.
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.
On a muggy afternoon in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, a brunette in a tight-fitting black top and hip-hugger jeans strides into PJ's Coffee Shop for a cup of praline-flavored joe.
That's the only way you really expand the music and let kids who are in love with hip-hop know that it's okay to try something new.
Many of hip-hop's biggest names have yet to weigh in on the 2008 election.
Today, Straight Outta Compton is a reminder of brighter days in hip-hop's most notorious left-coast 'hood.
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