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Hip-hop culture has given me too much for me not to defend its honor. I’ve spent the last year and a half of my life documenting the power in hip-hop music because it was this aspect of the culture, this unique art form that spoke to me like nothing ever before. As I’ve matured, I’ve realized that we can all learn from the culture that grew from the concrete.

So I’ve collected, extracted, and explored words of wisdom and motivational mantras in my new book, THE MESSAGE: 100 LIFE LESSONS FROM HIP-HOP’S GREATEST SONGS (Thunder’s Mouth/Running Press), which dropped October 25 and is available in bookstores and online. THE MESSAGE is named after the song performed by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (”Don’t push me, cause I’m close to the edge…) which many consider to be the first commercially successful socially conscious rap song and which happens to be celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.

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Very good idea to look at what lessons can be learned from Hip Hop instead of always focusing on the negative effects. I’m sure we have all learned a lot from Hip Hop, good and bad. What lessons has Hip Hop taught you?

- Never trust a Big Butt & a Smile
- If they Hate, then let them Hate and Watch the Money Pile Up
- When them tops come down, chicks tops come down

Lol, I’m just playing, maybe I will make a more serious post about lessons learned later this week.  If you any questions for the author of the book, Felicia Pride, feel free to post them here.

In vintage fashion, JAM’N 94.5’s annual concert blowout sported no-shows and surprises. Fabolous didn’t make it. But Jay-Z did, turning up, appropriately enough, during the climax of Kanye West’s “Big Brother.” The place erupted, and the pair of powerhouses teamed up on a double-strength performance of “Encore,” as well as a dark, driving number nobody knew but everybody seemed to love, perhaps from Jay-Z’s soundtrack for the upcoming film “American Gangster.”

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Waiting for some youtube footage to pop up.

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My people over at Street Knowledge TV hit me up with their exclusive interview with Jadakiss. You can check out all their videos @ their youtube channel.

Mario’s new album, “Go,” is set to be released November 27th. An AOL interview is below.

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