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The Colorado-based, hip-hop centric band Flobots has completed a new album, No Enemies, that will be released in early 2017. Having spent a lot of time in…
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As we take another look into the New American Songbook, KMUW's Zack Gingrich-Gaylord revisits an example of how the poetry of hip hop is a lot more broad…
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Ninety percent of what I know about New York City comes from hip hop. My personal map of the Big Apple bears very little resemblance to the Rand McNally…
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What happens when hip hop gets weird?This is a group called Anti-Pop Consortium, just one of many hip hop groups that are exploring the outer edges of hip…
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This week in the New American Songbook, KMUW's Zack Gingrich-Gaylord looks at how one building block of hip hop can reach a lot further than you might…
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The process of making a song radio-friendly seems pretty straightforward: Replace an offending word with either a euphemism or simply nothing at all.But…
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Dark and desperate, Summertime ‘06 is the new double-disc release from Compton rapper Vince Staples.It’s a study in American dystopia. The tone of the…
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A common critique of hip hop music is to point out the violence and vulgarity in the lyrics as a sign of its lack of quality. I’ve always found this…
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Our American identities are largely formed around the concept of work, both the noun and the verb, and as our national music, hip hop is no different.We…
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Hip hop’s early appeal had to do partly with its hyper-localism—the lyrics and musical tastes were originating from particular neighborhoods in New York…