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...error occurred while processing this directive] may be a bit of a cliché, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Café in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local hip-hop, ragga and soul. It's a young, mixed crowd - very cool. Palesa Madumo, advertising executive First hit the Design Quarter, Jo'burg's newest and hippest shopping mall at Fourways in the north. You can eat or have a drink at the Kitchen Bar, which is divided into a restaurant...
...with its characteristic swivel screen, is a lot easier to use than a BlackBerry, Windows Mobile PDA or even a Palm Treo. It can pull off most of those other handhelds' e-mail and messaging tricks, and has a carefully crafted allure that even the famed Crackberry would envy (hip-hop styling + high demand + limited availability + Paris Hilton = must-have). Rather than burn out, this four-year old phenomenon is getting hotter with the Sidekick...
After a Cristal exec said he views the high-end champagne's popularity with hip-hop stars as a "curiosity," JAY-Z felt dissed and decided to boycott, neither drinking it nor serving it at his chain of lounges...
...President has betrayed them by signing bills fattening Medicare and the Department of Education. Though the students embrace small businesses built on enterprise, they criticize big ones for knowing no borders and observing no national loyalties. And while he is fringe even among those students, 40-year-old hip-hop entrepreneur Reginald Jones--who says the Iraq invasion was unconstitutional because Congress never declared war and who decries post-9/11 security measures as infringements on our freedoms--has become one of the most popular figures among the young right. His raucous seminar on the evils of abortion, taxation...
...During the mid-1970's," Chang writes, "most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix...