Hip-Hop Rhymer Nas Shares 'Street' Stories
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Whether hip-hop artist Nas discourses on street life, politics or love, you can always count on one thing: He is not going to pull any punches.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - When Nas and Jay-Z set aside their feud and joined forces last October, it was a great moment for hip-hop, but an even greater moment for Nas. Having been Columbia's staple rap artist for more than a decade, the acclaimed yet commercially unreliable MC seemed poised to reap the benefits of Def Jam's hip-hop savvy.
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A hip-hop style helps bring a generation gap into full view.
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Far from its roots in disfranchised U.S.  ghettos, rap music is proving a big hit as a platform for  social criticism in the Islamic Republic.
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ItÂs a book called Talking Songs written by Nasreen Munni Kabeer.
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Jin may have earned his hip-hop stripes on the street, but the rapper spent a recent afternoon copping a brand new street cred.
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Singer Kelis has married rap star Nas at a private ceremony in Atlanta, the rapper's publicist confirms.
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Under tents in Manhattan's Bryant  Park, disc jockey Javier Peral is mixing beats for an exclusive  New York gathering, but sweaty hipsters won't be dancing to his  soundtrack.
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Marshaling hip hop's influence on young listeners, a city official and youth activist joined celebrities of the rap and mainstream entertainment worlds Wednesday in announcing a nationwide initiative to foster community service and curb gang violence.
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Grammy-nominated rapper Busta Rhymes pleaded guilty on Wednesday to assault, two driving infractions and weapons possession, avoiding a trial and the yearlong prison sentence recommended by prosecutors.
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Doing the laundry has taken on a new meaning for New Yorkers who can now watch their wash and spin cycles while listening to poetry and prose.
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The Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard brought impressionism to rap. His rap style was a kind of scarily funny addict-talk. It verged on nonsense, but it was too familiar to be a joke.
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P. Diddy Takes Get-Out-The-Vote Drive to Swing States; Rallies Planned for Six Cities. NEW YORK Oct 24, 2004 - Hip-hop mogul Sean &quot;P.
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An independent label that was once a hip-hop laughingstock has become a second home to rappers, or even a first one.
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David Banner doesn't want to be just another rapper who strolls into movies, so the Mississippi rhymer has been spending the past few months in Los Angeles, studying acting in preparation for a movie career.
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To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title. The rapper told MTV News that he would indeed be naming his new album after the N-word. And he denied earlier reports that the album's title would be spelled "N---a," considered in some circles a less inflammatory epithet. He said the disc is due out Dec. 11.
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Hip hop artists Lil Wayne and Ja Rule were arrested Sunday evening after a concert in Manhattan on charges of criminal possession of weapons, each in separate incidents, a New York Police Department spokesman told CNN.