The album is neatly utilitarian and bifurcated -- "Side One" for the hip-hop headz, "Side Two" for teenyboppers.

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And many of his fans now associate more with his spiritual side than his hip-hop beginnings.

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Juiceboxxx is doing his best to make sure the label lives up to its name: Just this month Thunder Zone dropped its first release, a seven-inch single from critically-acclaimed Alabama hip-hop duo G-Side.

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Because of the 20-mile limit, most of the Mexican trucks checked are short-hop rigs that pick up a load on the Mexican side and bring it across for an American rig to take onwards.

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The downtown fashion crowd looking for that edgy, experimental, or "old-school hip-hop" look head to the shops in the Lower East Side.

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Andre 3000 of hip-hop duo OutKast is to play Hendrix in a film entitled All Is By My Side, it was reported this week.

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Ms. ABIR: Both from the Israeli and Palestine side, like, DAM are the most famous artist now, today, especially when it comes to hip-hop.

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