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...Essential Selection show on BBC Radio is now into its ninth year. He has deftly pulled off the precarious task of threading the line between hosting a national radio dance show with a listenership of two million, while keeping up with the latest trends in house, hip-hop, jungle, funk and soul. His Essential Selection compilation albums and his work with London's famed Ministry of Sound club have also kept the average music listener up to date with the latest tunes...
Over the years, Jostrom continued to build a resume in other music styles. In high school, he played for local funk rock and blue-grass bands...
...NASDAQ has been in a serious funk, shedding nearly 400 points, more than 10 percent of its value, until suddenly a sliver of sun peeked out on Wednesday. Some credited Oracle, which lifted the index after some good news for the software maker. Others pointed to the day, the third day of the quarter, in which portfolio managers supposedly come out of their meetings and dump some investment money on the table. But for most, it seemed this cute little rally was like a flower pushing up through the tundra - not a full-blown spring yet, but hopefully a sign...
Gangsta rap, with its narrative tales and its cinematic funk-driven sound, offered a distinct alternative to the tricky bebop gymnastics of the freestyling East Coast. But hip-hop came close to destroying itself in the mid-'90s when that bicoastal rivalry almost turned into a shooting war, as Tupac Shakur - between surviving shootings and spells in prison - threatened the life of Brooklyn rapper the Notorious B.I.G. and both men, former friends, were by the end of 1997 dead in as-yet-unsolved drive-by shootings...
...THOSE PARTIES in the "Boogie Down" South Bronx where hip-hop's founding fathers - Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaata and Grandmaster Flash - first began delivering spoken rhymes over the break beats on funk and disco records sometime in the mid-'70s. Today the signature beats-and-rhymes combination of the musical art form they created is as ubiquitous in America's tony suburbs as in its forgotten housing projects, and has kids in distant parts of the world whose first language may be French or Japanese or Wolof chanting choruses inviting their friends to "get at me, dawg...