Rap awards to highlight positives
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Former Run-DMC star Darryl McDaniels creates an award show to challenge negative perceptions of hip-hop.
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It was all about R&amp;B and hip-hop at Wednesday night&#39;s Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas. Usher was the big winner with 11 awards, followed by Alicia Keys with seven, Outkast with five and Kanye West with four.
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Rolling Stone magazine claims to have the answer in a special issue hitting newsstands tomorrow. The list-happy music magazine, which has previously offered its rankings of the top albums of
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T.I. has wrapped up another slew of BET Hip-Hop Awards nominations. The Atlanta-based rapper received nine nominations for the second annual awards show, which will air on Oct. 17. Last year, the self-proclaimed "King of the South" garnered eight nominations, and won three awarads.
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Maybe they should call it the Rap & Roll Hall of Fame.
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An award show isn&#39;t really an award show without some sort of unscheduled controversy, is it? This year&#39;s Vibe Awards had its fair share yesterday (November 15) as one person got stabbed during a fight near
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The party&#39;s just begun, and Jay-Z and Outkast are already cleaning house, a fitting start for the first Video Music Awards to be held in the hip-hop haven that is Miami.
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Rapper Kayne West's debut album collected 10 nominations.
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It may be hard out there for a pimp, but for a group of   Oscar-winning rappers, life's not too bad.
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MTV loves its Video Music Awards. It gives the youth-culture channel an annual opportunity to strut its biggest stars and thumb its nose at the adult establishment -- maybe even moon it.
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Three albums that reached stores ahead of schedule will lead the next Billboard 200 chart and raise the profile of hip-hop and R&B.
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NEW YORK - Rapper-producer Kanye West received a leading seven Source Hip-Hop Music Awards nominations Thursday, while Ludacris got six.    West's nominations included best album, video, lyricist and producer of the year...
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The celebrity lure of the MTV awards was called a contributing factor to one event not being as flashy as promised.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - As rap and hip-hop experience an  unprecedented level of influence on American culture,  appreciation for the music is hitting a similar high-water mark  in the creative community.
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R&B singer Usher and hip-hop duo  OutKast each won three prizes by the midway mark at the  American Music Awards on Sunday, with Usher on his way to a  clean sweep of all four categories in which he was nominated.
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Kanye West, Usher, Alicia Keys and Ray Charles were about as hard to predict as rain in Seattle. But such choices reveal as much about the increasing relevance of the awards as they do about their continued blind spots.
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Hip-hip duo OutKast took top honors on Wednesday as the recording industry handed out its first awards for music sold through Internet-music services like Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes.