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links for 2007-06-20

"Stop Listening To Trash," Church Calls Out Rappers In New Campaign Another example of the backlash against commercial hip hop (tags: hip+hop)

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links for 2007-06-11

Did Beyonce Kill Neo-Soul? Perhaps the problem was that there weren’t enough of these artists being developed to fill the gaps between albums by Erykah, Jill, Lauryn, D’Angelo etc. (tags: Beyonce neo+soul) Gnarls Barkley’s Label & Engadget’s Founder Launch Label 2.0 This sounds familiar because, well, didn’t someone else try this before? (tags: Gnarls+Barkley Downtown+Records [...]

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links for 2007-04-30

Lynne d Johnson || is rock and roll racist? Just came across some insightful work done by Lynne Johnson on the subject of Black rock (tags: disconnect)

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links for 2007-04-20

Cam’ron vows he’ll never help police – ever Unfortunately, this kind of idiocy is part of commercial hip hop’s alternate reality (tags: disconnect)

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links for 2007-04-12

Now they’ll see his face – BUZZ BANDS – Los Angeles Times – calendarlive.com Kenna’s electro-soul album–"New Sacred Cows"–was produced by the Neptunes. (tags: bands identity)

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links for 2007-04-06

Chicago Reader | Sharp Darts | His Not-So-Secret Identity: Ralph Darden comes out from behind his DJ handle to push the debut full-length by the Jai-Alai Savant. Ralph Darden, a genre smasher out of Chicago, both as DJ Major Taylor and as frontman for Jai-Alai Savant, whose new record hits April 10 (tags: bands)

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links for 2007-03-02

‘We are not members of a tribe. We are not linked by blood or soil. We are citizens of an idea.’ (Blipster.info) This is what I love: "We are citizens of an idea."  Great. (tags: identity)

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links for 2007-02-28

The Afrofuture of Rock by Kandia Crazy Horse Kandia’s review of the final BRC show at BAM (tags: bands Black+Rock+Coalition)

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GOOD READS: #TrayvonMartin Around The Web

So much conversation–and now maybe some justice–for this young man.

GOOD READ: Charles Blow on the Trayvon Martin case

Will an innocent black boy get justice?

What’s Race Got To Do With It?

The antidote to the country’s first black president

Why Is The N.Y.P.D. After Me?

A 23-year-old New Yorker talks about having been stopped and frisked by NYPD at least five times.

The Rise of the New Confederacy: How America-Hating Right-Wingers Took Over The GOP

Those on the extreme right are different. Here’s how and why.

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