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MLK Day – Obama Inaguaration Jan 21st 2013

Join the millions who will witness the swearing in of Barack Obama for his second term as President of the United States on Monday, January 21st 2013. Related PostsThe Experiment: A Brief History of Willful Ignorance Japanese Funk Edition Funk

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Blackout Radio 2012 Playlist

Kurt NiceKurt Nice aka Kurtiss Jackson is a behind the scenes pioneer in the Hip Hop Kulture, creating the first nationally distributed video mix tape series, Shades of Hip Hop, in the late 1990s. Since touring the country with the

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Skillz 2012 Rap Up

Skillz treats us to another year end rap up. What words got life and which ones died in 2012? NEW LIFE – Ratchet, molly, goin ham, turnt up, off that DIED – swag, post it on my facebook page SKILLZ

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Kurt NiceKurt Nice aka Kurtiss Jackson is a behind the scenes pioneer in the Hip Hop Kulture, creating the first nationally distributed video mix tape series, Shades of Hip Hop, in the late 1990s. Since touring the country with the

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MCA – Adam Yauch dead at 47

August 5, 1964 – May 4, 2012 Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47 By Michael Pearson, CNN updated 5:34 PM EDT, Fri May 4, 2012 Adam “MCA” Yauch of the Beastie Boys performs in 2004 at

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Youtube goes after “fake views”

YouTube cancels billions of video views after finding they had been ‘faked’ – but were hackers working for the music industry? Major record labels stripped of more than two billion video views Biggest hit taken by Universal, which alone lost

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What Rap Missed in 2012

What’s the message in 2012? part 2 So much transpired throughout the World in 2012, and for the most part, mainstream rap music missed it all. For the past several years, pop-rap music has been dominated by figures who have

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What’s the message for 2012? part 1

As a new year begins in the world of rap music, what have we learned from 2012? Many promoters of the rap industry will have you believe that everything was all good. In an effort not to knock the next

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The World Didn’t End!

Predictions that the World would come to an end December 12, 2012, as prophesied by the Mayan calendar, were grossly mistaken. December 22nd and not a peep from Nibiru… funny how that works out huh? Kurt NiceKurt Nice aka Kurtiss

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2012 Mayan Prophecy

  New Beginning _Documentary Dec 21, 2012 is on everyone’s mind. What will it bring? Is it the end of the world? A new beginning for mankind? Or just another year on the calendar? 2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning

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