Tag Archives: hip-hop

WorldStar’s Chicago Hip-Hop Documentary “The Field”

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WorldStarHipHop’s new documentary on Chicago hip-hop and violence is essential viewing. Just keep a critical eye open. Earlier this week, WorldStarHipHop released the 40-minute documentary The Field: Violence, Hip-Hop, and Hope in Chicago, which you can watch above. Link

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Artists, ex-drug dealer warn of ‘poisons’

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November 21, 2010 BY LISA DENEAL, POST-TRIBUNE CORRESPONDENT GARY — Thanks to modern tecnology, “Freeway” Ricky Ross spoke at Indiana University Northwest after all, even though his probation officer wanted him back in Los Angeles from Chicago. Through a Skype connection, convicted drug trafficker Ross told the small crowd in …

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Oddisee, Traveling Man, Spotlight on Indie Hip-Hop

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“Traveling Man,” released Jan. 26, 2010, is Oddisee’s new instrumental album. Let me be the first to say that “Traveling Man” is one of the coolest hip-hop concept albums I have heard in a long time. The concept behind “Traveling Man” is best explained by the creator himself– The album …

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