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You Failed Hip-Hop
Feb 25, 2004
Jay-Z and Andre 3000 might abandon rap for good. Are their fans to blame?
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Black Like Me
Sep 3, 2003
John Walker Lindh's hip-hop daze.
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Hip-Hop’s Cadaver Capitalism
May 28, 2003
How hip-hop glorifies -- and exploits -- its dead.
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