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HIP HOP IS DOPE, AND AMERICA IS A DOPEFIEND HOOKED ON THE FRUIT OF ITS OWN BRUTALITY

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONG STORY SHORT: The Original Beatnik Chick I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but ...
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As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip-hop professor explains what the word 'dope' means to him

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hip-hop culture brought graffiti art, breakdancing, emceeing and DJing to prominence. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images After I ...
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Hip-Hop Card Game University of Dope Brings Beats and Bonding

The journey of University of Dope began with a casual question about the Wu-Tang Clan. In celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary, a groundbreaking card game has hit the scene, transforming lively ...
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Central Ohio’s Mekka Don is Back in the Rap Game and He’s ‘Still Dope’ / WATCH

*(Via WSYX) — It started with a beat and then new inspiration. That’s what marked the return to music for Central Ohio’s own Mekka Don, the former Buckeye, turned rapper, turned entrepreneur. That ...
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HIP HOP IS DOPE, AND AMERICA IS A DOPEFIEND HOOKED ON THE FRUIT OF ITS OWN BRUTALITY

I’m driving with Truth, a friend who is a music producer. We both make rap music, but he makes beats, too. I’m an undergraduate at the small, private university in my hometown, Decatur, Illinois. He ...
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As the global musical phenomenon turns 50, a hip‑hop professor explains what the word ‘dope’ means to him

After I finished my Ph.D. in 2017, several newspaper reporters wrote about the job I’d accepted at the University of Virginia as an assistant professor of hip-hop. “A.D. Carson just scored, arguably, ...