Eight Mile Road

 Kidz In The Hall and Reebok have joined forces with Reebok to create The Classic Remix Collection, an initiative that allows emerging Hip-Hop talents re-interpret timeless rap records.
The effort has produced a remix of “I Got It Made,” an iconic 80’s record by rapper Special Ed.
The latest version of the 1989 song will only [...]

Gawker

Finally, The Jake Gyllenhaal/Ron Howard Hip-Hop Video You've …Gawker, NYHere, then, is a hip-hop video that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Ron Howard for some reason. You're welcome! The music video they appear in is the Hype Williams-directed "Blame It" by Jamie Foxx, who is now firmly at the "Waiting for Tonight" phase of his …Jaime [...]

Next month, Roots frontman Black Thought will star in actor Mark Webber’s anticipated independent film Explicit Ills.
 
The drama revolves around characters in four interconnected stories trying to succeed in Philadelphia amid struggles with love, drugs, and poverty.
 
Black Thought (Tariq Trotter) plays the role of Kaleef, a fledgling entrepreneur who labors to get his health store [...]

Hip-hop legend returns to Hollis for openingQueens Chronicle, NYby Matt Hampton, Editor Hollis residents were visited by a ghost of hip-hop past last Thursday, when Darryl McDaniels — better known as DMC — paid a visit to his old hometown. McDaniels was there to help open the new Hollis Famous Burger, …

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Christian Science Monitor

Hip-hop's Arabic-language kinChristian Science Monitor, MAA short sample of the Lebanese hip hop group 'Rayess Bek' performing '3am behkeh bil sokout.' Used with permission. Beirut, lebanon – The unusual sound of a hip-hop beat and a funky bass line thudded out of a sandwich shop in a trendy Beirut …

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Diversifying Hip-Hop 2Bay Area Indymedia, CAby Leroy Moore/Illn n Chilln/PNN In 2006 I asked the Bay Area’s Hip-Hop community and media with a mono microphone were they ready for diversifying Hip-Hop event. Through this event Hip-Hop artists and Poets with disabilities took the stage at LA Pena …

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McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota is introducing a new Hip-Hop Studies Diploma program, which will start with the September, 2009 semester.
 
The program, which spans three semesters and can be completed in one calendar year, will be the nation’s fist accredited, college-level diploma.
 
The courses will be taught by “leading hip-hop practitioners, including [...]