Article By Michael Partis

If Hip-Hop wasn’t about marketing, advertising, budgets, labels, videos, spins, singles, radio, TV, magazines, Internet, sales, and record exec’s…this would be the Top 5.

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Every rapper says, “It’s more then music. This is a movement.” Oh yeah? Is America hip hop still a movement or has it been neutralized? And if it has been neutralized, by whom I ask?

According to www.dictionary.com, movement is defined as a progressive development of ideas toward a particular conclusion; a diffusely organized or heterogeneous group of people or organizations tending toward or favoring a generalized common goal; a group of people with common ideology who try together to achieve certain goals.

-Cornell Dews

Perfet timing for this editorial by Cornell Dews with Hell Rell & Big Joe shedding light on how The Dipset movement was run behind the scenes.
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And Still The Undisputed Champion of the World:
How The South is Still Hip-Hop’s Number 1 Representer

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Check out Q Da Kid on MTV September 19th @ 11:30 for, “VMA: Livin The Dream.”
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Where does Game rank against the hardest rappers of all-time?
Article by Michael Partis

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“People thinking MC is shorthand for misconception”

Talib Kweli-”Definition”

Maybe sales are down because nobody wants to hear what you have to say… read more »

For the brother who:

• remembers being a “Black Boy.”
• wanted to be “The Bad Nigga” like Jack Johnson
• feels like he’s America’s “Native Son.”
• is constantly reminded he is an “Invisible Man.”
• lived by B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”
• “seen Hoop Dreams deflat like a true fiend’s weight”
• is “Black on Both Sides”
• wanted to be “the coolest nigga”

CNN talked about us, now it’s our turn.

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