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ArtsMan · **Joined:** Sat Aug 03, 2002 11:01 pm **Posts:** 591

In the Miami Herald:

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Hip-hop's welling up in Mexico barrios
BY SUSAN FERRISS
Cox News Service

If Americans think their rappers have a lot to rant about, they should hear angry young Mexicans. more

Azlan · **Posted:** Mon Dec 30, 2002 9:25 am

Hip-hop saves lives:

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Break-dancing pioneer kicks down barriers

Marian Liu, San Jose Mercury News

Hip-hop saved Aiko Shirakawa's life.

Now the San Jose teacher and activist is using hip-hop to save others.

Azlan · **Posted:** Sun Jan 05, 2003 12:12 pm

Sure, why not:

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Muslim Hip-Hop Group Raps for Allah, With a Message of Harmony

BY WAYNE PARRY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Salt Lake Tribune

This is one hip-hop group that puts The Prophet before profit.
Native Deen, named after the Arabic word for "religion" or "way of life," is a trio of young Muslim men who sing only about their faith.

Malcolm Tay · **Joined:** Fri Aug 31, 2001 11:01 pm **Posts:** 962

Busta moves
March 21 2003
By Catherine Keenan
Sydney Morning Herald

Benji Reid
The Studio, Sydney Opera House
Tuesday and Wednesday, 7.15pm; Thursday to Saturday, March 29, 8.15pm
How much: $15-$25
Bookings 9250 7777

Reid is one of the champions of the form, the UK's "king" of popping, a former dancer and choreographer with Soul II Soul. And he is about to bring his movement-based theatre to the Sydney Opera House.

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Azlan · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2003 1:36 pm

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Asian beat hip-hopping to America

BY CARY DARLING, Miami Herald

Bend it like Jay-Z.

On his latest single, Beware of the Boys, the American rapper busts his rhymes over East Asian rhythms called bhangra, the infectious, electronic updating of India's Punjabi folk music. <a href=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/entertainment/5738656.htm target=_blank>more</a>

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Thu Jun 12, 2003 12:12 am

Hip Hop dance teachers young, experienced
From Mt. Shasta News (California)

Hip Hop dancers Trent Brookshire, left, and Dylan Olson will teach a day-long workshop at Siskiyou Dance Company in Weed on June 20th.
Hip Hop dancers Trent Brookshire and Dylan Olson will conduct an all-day workshop at Siskiyou Dance Company in Weed on June 20th from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The class will feature jazz technique warm up, jumps, turns, leaps and the latest Hip Hop moves. It is open to anyone age 10 and above. Younger dancers with at least two years of experience are also invited to participate.

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Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Thu Jun 19, 2003 1:42 pm

Dancer puts his body to work
By AMANDA KYNE for The New Zealand Herald

Stardom is tapping on Richard Cesan's window.

The 17-year-old urban funk tapper is somersaulting into the world of professional dance - the only career he sees in his future.

"It's what I do best. I get a lot of enjoyment out of it so I might as well make it my career."

Dragged along to dance classes at four, Cesan spent his afternoons with girls doing ballet, tap and jazz lessons.

Sissy? Definitely not. He did get some lip, but his desire to be faster and better helped him waltz past the peer pressure.

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Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Wed Jul 09, 2003 1:34 am

Oakland hip-hop dance troupe advances to world finals
Club One dancers 'did everything off the skin. By Shadi Rahimi for The Argus

OAKLAND -- It didn't matter that they didn't have the clothes, transportation or money to compete. Members of a nonprofit Oakland hip-hop dance troupe knew that if they could just make it to Los Angeles, they could win at the second annual USA Hip-Hop Crew Championships.
And they did. At their first competition together, dancers in three groups led by instructors from Club One Fitness in Oakland beat 20 teams to place second in all age categories at the May championships. They will compete against 25 to 30 teams in the World Hip-Hop Championships in Miami on Aug. 2-3.

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Azlan · **Posted:** Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:36 am

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Innovators show off their legendary twists and turns of hip-hop

Paloma McGregor
Cleveland Plain Dealer

Back in the day - the 1970s and '80s, that is - select groups of urban youth battled for glory by creating the most innovative and daring dance moves they could: spinning on their heads, isolating body parts as if they were rusty robots and catapulting themselves through the air with Olympic flair. <a href=http://www.cleveland.com/artsandevents/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/entertainment/1059471457151032.xml target=_blank>more</a>

Stuart Sweeney · **Posted:** Mon Sep 22, 2003 6:53 am

Hip-Hop Revisits Dance-Floor Success
R&B and hip-hop acts are returning to the dance floor. By Michael Paoletta for Reuters

Led by such influential producers as the Neptunes, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Mark Ronson, R&B/hip-hop artists are scoring successes on the Billboard dance charts.

Among those expanding their audiences with new beats are Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Beyonce and Kelis.

"Musical hybrids are happening all the time," Ronson says. "Look at how many people are attempting to clone the Neptunes' progressive club sound. We're seeing more and more hip-hop artists and producers play around with funky electro grooves -- and the tempo is increasing."

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:18 am

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Lil' Romeo will do a lil' Shakespeare on the screen

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Lil' Romeo will do a lil' Shakespeare on the screenIt was inevitable that rapper Lil' Romeo, as the namesake of the doomed lover, would star in a big-screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic romantic play.

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:20 am

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Quick-footed crews gather for third annual UNITE battle

MARY BROWN MALOUF
The SaltLake Tribune

This weekend, crews (teams) from all over Utah will be fighting it out with spray paint and fast feet at the third annual UNITE battle today and Saturday in Salt Lake City at the Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, 440 S. 900 East.

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Fri Oct 03, 2003 7:53 am

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This town's really rappin' -- or maybe not

By DAVID OVALLE
The Miami Herald

Brimstone127 is Miami hip-hop. And he isn't./---/

He is because, in the early 1990s, he and his crew, Plan Be, bolstered the local scene by performing with respected out-of-town acts such as Fu-Schnickens, Positive K and Das EFX.

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Sun Oct 05, 2003 9:56 am

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Why hip-hop works as registration´

The Philadelphia Inquirer

There is good news, however, concerning an evolving trend. That trend involves voters between the ages of 18 to 30. They are registering to vote in record numbers in major urban centers. In the past this demographic has been referred to as Generation X or Generation Y. In hip-hop culture, we refer to the 18- to 30-year-olds of today as Generation E: the Generation of Empowerment, Energy and Excellence.

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Sun Oct 05, 2003 11:03 am

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A local hip hop dance event is all about unity, organizers say

By MARY BROWN MALOUF
The Salt Lake Tribune

The third annual UNITE, a celebration and competition of Salt Lake City's hip-hop culture, started Friday afternoon with a graffiti painting contest and culminated at 10 p.m. Saturday evening with the final break dancing competition. The Kiwanis Club Boys and Girls Club gymnasium in Salt Lake City was packed, mostly with teens and twenty-somethings, performers and spectators.

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