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Next door, 14-year-old Jaime Adriano is waiting, too. He was only two months old when his mother abandoned him, overwhelmed by the prospect of raising an Amerasian child on her own. Jaime lives with a foster family, sleeping in a coffin-sized bedroom where he keeps his hip-hop clothes and prized hair gel. Neighbors whisper that his foster father beats him, but there is nowhere for the 14-year-old boy to go. School is out for the former honor-roll student: his foster father recently lost his job and Jaime's $10 tuition was the first...
...incident began around 11 p.m. with a dispute between Paul Solet, 21, of Boston, and a New York man attending a hip-hop concert in the basement of the popular Central Square club...
...with a bodyguard, that means police is watchin'/And I only use his waist to keep my Glock in," hip-hop star JAY-Z declared on his last album. That claim sounded eminently plausible last week, when police allegedly found a loaded Glock in the waistband of Jay-Z's bodyguard Hamza Hewitt after stopping a car containing the rapper, Hewitt and two other men. All four were arrested and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Jay-Z's lawyer stated that his client was not guilty, helpfully adding that "other celebrities have often used armed security...
...music-industry conventions. Or maybe it would take the shape of a crooked smile. Or perhaps there's no single symbol that can stand for what DiFranco is all about: she's folk and she's punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over her 10-year career, all on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, based in Buffalo. Her most popular album, Dilate (1996), sold more than...
...incident began around 11 p.m. with a dispute between Paul Solet, 21, of Boston, and a New York man attending a hip-hop concert in the basement of the popular Central Square club...