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Obama embraces hip-hop -- to a point
Chicago TribuneBarack Obama was in his last year of high school in 1979 when hip-hop broke out of the ghettos of New York on its way to becoming a national phenomenon. He is in many ways a child of hip-hop, but sometimes a reluctant one. Even as the president-elect...Tags: Rap, Bill Clinton, Hip Hop, Ice Cube, Poetry
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DEC. 8 Yoga for lunch Take a healthy lunch break without changing out of your work clothes, and stay renewed for the rest of your day. Noon at the Living Well, 2122 St. Paul St. $12. 410-764-7322 or yoginilajah.com. John Legend Grammy Award-winning soul...Tags: Tony Kushner, Theater, Kenny G, Minority Groups, Classical Music
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Wildly eclectic party at LI Music Hall of Fame gala
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIn the packed Garden City Hotel ballroom, beneath the crystal chandeliers, amid the swells dressed in their formal best, Public Enemy's Chuck D and Run-DMC's DMC got everyone to put their hands in the air and wave them like they just don't care to the...Tags: Auction Service, Music Industry, North Babylon, Count Basie, Garden City Hotel
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Murs goes mainstream
He was thinking of a master plan.
For Murs, signing with a major label wasn't about "selling out," and he certainly wasn't about to compromise his art too much. The underground West Coast rapper, an acclaimed independent artist for more than a decade,...Tags: Government, North Carolina, Los Angeles, Hip Hop, National Government
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LI Music Hall of Fame recognizes local talent
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comIt's probably no surprise that Chuck D refused to be bullied when he was a fledgling rapper and a student at Adelphi University. "People used to come from the Bronx and from Brooklyn with a chip on their shoulders, thinking that just because rap...Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Rakim, Eddie Money, Aaron Copland, Busta Rhymes
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'Hip Hop Honors' with a Long Island beat
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comTHE SHOW "VH1's Hip Hop Honors" WHEN | WHERE Tonight at 10 on VH1 THE DEAL The fifth annual Hip Hop Honors - taped at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan last Thursday - recognizes Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick and Too Short....Tags: Everlast, Slick Rick, Chuck (tv program), Hip Hop, Fiction
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Honors for De La Soul come from the heart
glenn.gamboa@newsday.comDe La Soul told me once that helping out younger artists helps keep them young. "A lot of people who have got information don't give out --, and then they start to deteriorate and start to look old - look at a lot of today's youth; they look older than...Tags: Slick Rick, Long Island Sound, Hip Hop, Awards and Prizes, Michael Rapaport
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Shea Stadium lives on in memory
ryan.chatelain@am-ny.comSeaver. Strawberry. Gooden. Hernandez. Wilson. Carter. Franco. Piazza. Wright. All these baseball greats have called Shea Stadium home at one time or another. With the Mets currently locked in a tight race for the National League playoffs, fans are...Tags: New York Mets, Baseball, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball
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Mayfields music fueled an era
Special to The TimesIf asked to name the recording artist whose music came closest to serving as a soundtrack for the civil rights movement in the 1960s, most pop fans would probably think of James Brown, Stevie Wonder and Bob Dylan. But a new DVD makes a strong case that...Tags: Justice and Rights, Paramount, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Stevie Wonder, Andrew Young
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The Greene Turtle
It's hard to miss the original Greene Turtle. Driving down Ocean City's Coastal Highway, it's the bar with the giant green turtle decorations. But if you're from Maryland, the Turtle's reputation as a party spot precedes it. Where // 116th Street and...Tags: Jimmy Buffett, Maryland, Batman
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The Go! Team
Metromix StaffALBUM: "Proof of Youth" Backstory: This multicultural posse from Brighton, England first burst onto the global scene in 2004 with the amazing energy flash of their debut, “Thunder, Lightning, Strike.” Juxtaposing the childlike innocence of...Tags: Brighton Park, Television, Teen-agers, People
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