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Dizzee’s video is a welcome reprieve from the conspicuous consumption, macho posturing, and glib misogyny of too many hip-hop videos. With “Dream,” Dizzee proves that you can kick it on an old-school (or maybe pre-school) tip and still bring...
...hitting the Hispanic sweet spot isn't just politically correct, it's a business necessity. Even as big companies like Hershey's, Citibank and Proctor & Gamble roll out products just for American Hispanics, advertisers already see the next frontier to be Latino-centric mainstream marketing, the same way hip-hop, urban culture has pervaded the general ad market in the past decade. Crest, P&G?s flagship toothpaste, has just named 5-year-old Cuban-born girl Enya Martinez its new ?Crest Kid,? the all-American advertising icon represented in the 1950s by kids drawn by Norman Rockwell. "For anyone...
...unlike some others, Grinda thinks there's still plenty of room for growth even within ringtones. Record labels have only recently embraced fully licensed ringtones that actually sound like music, he says, and Zingy is racing to sign up the most popular hip-hop acts to exclusive ringtone deals. (His roster already includes 50 Cent, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.) Grinda says the only thing holding the content back is handsets: just some 15% of cell phones in use today support the best-quality ringtones. Of course, Americans typically replace their cell phones every 18 months. "Give me two years...
...factor is that, in general, teachers at the high school level tend to be tougher on boys than they are on girls,” Lamont said. “Minority boys who come to school in hip-hop fashion are more likely to be perceived as disruptive. Teachers’ perceptions of codes of femininity lead them to reinforce academic achievement for girls...
...whispers along with her acoustic guitar, barely singing songs about being in Montmartre when she wants to be in Manhattan. She's precious but hypnotic, too. M.I.A. Arular The child of a Sri Lankan Tamil rebel leader, Maya Arulpragasam moved to London at age 12 and discovered hip-hop. Now 28, she has produced a mini-masterpiece that merges Jamaican dancehall patois and Missy Elliott's stuttering rhythm with a political viewpoint entirely her own. She's not so eloquent in her anger as Public Enemy or so tuneful as the Clash, but it's a pretty impressive neighborhood...