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     Hip-Hop Was Born in New York City, But Its Roots Are in the Caribbean

     Time via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Chuck D attend Columbia University's Rap...

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     Grammys To Honor 50 Years of Hip Hop With LL Cool J, Queen Latifah, Questlove & More

     Deadline via Yahoo News· 8 months ago

     It’s been a half-century since DJ Kool Herc energized a West Bronx rec room and invented the most...

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     Documentaries celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop culture

     Mansfield News Journal via Yahoo News· 10 months ago

     Hip hop has something that most music can’t claim — a specific birthdate. Classical? Jazz? Polka?...

4. • WATCH: NYC residential, business building collapses

     WJW via Yahoo News· 6 months ago

     BRONX, New York (WJW) – A six-story apartment building in the west Bronx partially collapsed on Monday, according to the New York City Fire Department. According to the fire department, no deaths ...

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     Calling all MCs: Athens artists host open mic to celebrate hip-hop's 50th anniversary

     Athens Banner-Herald via Yahoo News· 1 year ago

     In keeping with the welcoming and inclusive qualities that have exemplified the Athens hip hop scene...

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     Man dies after NYPD sergeant hurls cooler, knocks him off motorbike; officer suspended

     USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months ago

     A 30-year-old man died Wednesday in the Bronx minutes after an undercover New York police sergeant...

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     WHEN HIP HOP WENT ULTRA

     SPIN via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

     Band Jury: ...Trail of Dead's Conrad Keely Defends Talking Heads' Naked In October of ’88, the venerable Ultramagnetic MC’s advanced first-generation hip...

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     THE SPIN INTERVIEW: DJ Kool Herc

     SPIN via Yahoo News· 11 months ago

     Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents admission for...

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     ‘It Turned the World Upside Down’: How New York City’s 1977 Blackout Jump-Started the Hip-Hop Era

     Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years ago

     In an exclusive excerpt from the new book The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop,...

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      ‘Learning To Swim At 24 Taught Me An Important Life Lesson’

      Women's Health via Yahoo News· 7 months ago

      After a frustrating island vacation left editor Naydeline Mejia eager to learn to swim, she signed...