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...Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London hip-hop. It's spoken in schools and clubs, on street corners and all over the Internet - anywhere, in fact, where kids enjoy mastering a language that excludes parents and other authority figures. Until now. The two dictionaries cited above unlock some of the secrets of the new lingo, as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There Will Always Be a Blingland | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...film—beyond how the director failed to incite a sexual spark between the gorgeous leads—is why Robert “The RZA/Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah/ Rzarector Prince Rakeem/” Diggs was cast as its moral center and tragic antihero. The hip-hop MC, best known for his work in the East Coast hardcore crew the Wu-Tang Clan, has also composed film soundtracks, including those of both “Kill Bill”’s and “Blade: Trinity.” While his musical skill...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Derailed | 11/11/2005 | See Source »

...Harvard. We hope that by increasing our communication efforts with the student body, we will ensure the success of future HCC events.The goal of the HCC is to foster a sense of community through campus-wide entertainment events. Recent initiatives have included rock concerts in the Gordon track, free hip-hop events in Lavietes Pavilion, and comedy shows in Sanders Theatre. After each of these shows, we received positive feedback from students.Three years ago, administrators believed that students could not produce a concert. Now, they are more supportive than ever, but we still face many obstacles in bring a concert...

Author: By Samantha H. Fink, Tyler O’brien, and Zak Tanjeloff, S | Title: The HCC in Wyclef’s Wake | 11/10/2005 | See Source »

...black admissions officer at a private school told me it has got harder to recruit qualified black students, in part because of hip-hop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race, Gender & Work: You Got to Have Guts | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

...about hip-hop. The truth is, because of hip-hop, you can be all you can be, and we've created a culture [where you can go] from thousands of dollars to tens of millions of dollars. People think they can have everything now, so they don't have to work 40, 50 years. We've got to learn to work hard. It's now up to us. But it sounds like you're trying to say, instead of the Establishment embracing [African Americans], I can't go there unless I'm of a certain status. That is Big Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Race, Gender & Work: You Got to Have Guts | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

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