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...Protection Program, an instrumental-hip-hop band. He spotted their potential in the backyard of the Fox his sophomore fall. “They needed a keyboardist,” he says. “When I started doing stuff with them I started basically composing a lot of hip-hop beats and just a lot of music in general. Composing was something I had done when I was a kid, just for fun, but I never really approached it from a serious vantage—that fall I sort of set up a studio in my apartment...
...describing life in Kirkland with Olegbenga ("Gbenga") T. Okusanya ’05. Yet is has its perks too—blockmate Brooks R. Powlen, ’05, gets free dance lessons from Okusanya, who has been a director of Expressions, an on-campus hip-hop dance group, since his sophmore fall. “It’s kind of his community outreach, to teach a white guy how to dance,” says Powlen...
...Beastie Boys for Tibet Move over Richard: the hip-hop trio set up the Milarepa Fund a decade ago to support "the Tibetan people's nonviolent struggle to regain independence." Since then, the boys have organized more than 10 Tibetan Freedom concerts around the world...
According to the entry, which was taken off the site yesterday afternoon by site creator Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06, Fonseca liked hip-hop music and his favorite books were Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and Mario Puzo’s Fool?...
David Banner lives in a world where the marks of oppression are still clear as day and hip-hop never scaled the heights of marketability. It’d be a mistake to slot his music alongside more pedestrian bids for mass appeal. Last year’s Mississippi: The Album would have sounded curiously wrong to heads raised on boom-bap, full of blues chords and unearthly bass tones grafted to low-riding drums so nuanced they bordered on expressionistic. But with Outkast as crunk music’s ambassadors, few probably listened anyway. Suitably, Banner makes jams above...