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...enforcement. City authorities in Riviera Beach, Fla., passed an ordinance earlier this year declaring it "unlawful for any person to appear in public or in view of the public wearing pants below the waist which expose the skin or undergarments." The offending style, of course, was the hip-hop-influenced saggy-pants fashion, popular primarily among young black men who let their pants drop and expose a few inches of their boxer shorts. But the city fathers of Riviera Beach could have a hard time convincing the local judiciary that the ordinance is constitutionally valid...
...only has strained relations between young black men and law enforcement but it could also have a significant economic impact on inner-city residents struggling financially, says Tricia Rose, a professor at Brown University's Department of Africana Studies and the author of the forthcoming book The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop - And Why It Matters. The average median household income in Riviera Beach is about $10,000 lower than that in the rest of the country, and the city's per capita violent-crime rate is higher than the city...
KANYE WEST developing hip-hop puppet show...
East Asia's fledgling hip-hop scene could have asked for no better boost than the arrival of Jin Au-Yeung. The 26-year-old Chinese-American rapper relocated to Hong Kong from New York City this summer in a move either born of frustration at a flagging Stateside career or of a wish to connect more strongly with his roots (his parents are from Hong Kong) - or both...
...formative role in an Asian rap scene that yearns for someone of his experience will keep him content for a long time to come. "I might not have been the guy who sold a million records," he says, "but you can't accuse me of not properly representing hip-hop and Asian culture...