Rap record upsets gospel groups
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Gospel acts complain after rapper Kanye West's debut LP is put forward for a best gospel album award.
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Some of Johnny Cash's most  memorable gospel performances have just been issued on the  24-track CD "Cash -- Ultimate Gospel."
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The Polyphonic Spree may look like a  New Age gospel choir, with all those young white Texans in  multicolored robes hopping, swaying and beaming beatifically as  they sing and play blissed-out mantras, but bandleader Tim  DeLaughter says it's just pop music.
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With the genre's sales plummeting, rap and its entrepreneurial artists are looking for a turnaround strategy
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SILVER SPRING, Maryland  - The makers of "What Would Jesus Buy?" have a problem -- how do you sell a film documenting performance artist Rev. Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a guerrilla U.S. tour against consumerism?
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - High-profile albums from rappers  Eminem and Snoop Dogg will be released ahead of schedule  because of piracy concerns, their distributor Interscope Geffen  A&M Records said Thursday.
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The groupâs big win at the Grammy Awards exposed ideological tensions between Nashville and Hollywood.
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Many people in religious circles say it's one of the biggest problems facing families and congregations.  Yet:  It can go undetected.  It has no outward signs.  It is barely discussed.  The culprit? Pornography.  The Rev.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Kanye West has increased his lead over 50 Cent in the much scrutinized battle between the rap stars, according to preliminary sales data issued Friday.
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When news surfaced over the weekend that 50 Cent, Wyclef Jean, Timbaland and other rap stars had been implicated in a steroids investigation, some hip-hop fans were shocked, but to many in the industry the accusations seemed inevitable.
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Rappers Eminem and Snoop Dogg bring forward the releases of their new albums because of internet piracy.
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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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To some, it's a hurtful racial epithet. For Nas, it's an album title.
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TVT Records, long ranked as a top independent label, was hit last year with a $9.1 million court judgment over the release of old recordings of the rapper Pitbull.
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Gay-killer reggae lyrics spark outrage
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LOS ANGELES  &#151; When veteran Christian rockers Third Day won the Grammy for best pop-contemporary gospel album, they rushed to the stage at the Staples Center minus one member &#151; guitarist Mark Lee.
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Newspaper is criticized for writing that recording industry wants to criminalize copying music to a computer. RIAA and even some of the group's biggest critics say Post got it wrong.