Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...difficulty doesn't stop the students from riding the bus regularly. It can't. The appeal of leaving campus is so strong that most feel the urge to hop on the bus sooner or later. And many of these women say they ride the bus once a week, either Friday or Saturday night...
...company eventually issued an internal memo instructing its employees to ensure "that none of our recordings promote bigotry." But Public Enemy and its supporters remain unapologetic. "This is Chuck's point of view as an African man living on this planet," says Harry Allen, a self-described hip-hop activist. "The notion of saying things to Europeans to make them comfortable is not part of the game...
...clubs. Suburban teens, on the lookout for something new, have carried it out to the shopping malls. Fashion designers have picked up on the baggy pants and dark sunglasses of rap couture, while advertising executives have copied its semantic style ("Reeboks let U.B.U.," declares one ad in fluent hip-hop...
Over the past few years major record companies like Columbia and RCA have < scrambled to hook up with rap labels. MTV, once criticized for ostracizing hip-hop videos, gives Yo! MTV Raps 30 minutes on its daily schedule. Master rappers D.J. Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince have appeared on the David Letterman show. The Grammy Awards got into the act last year when it created its first rap-music category. Meanwhile, mainstream musicians like pop producer and jazz trumpeter Quincy Jones are including rap tracks on their new albums...
...epicenter of rap still lies in black urban communities, and it is from such communities in Los Angeles, in Seattle, in Miami, that the new talent is rising. "Hip-hop is a black thing," says Fab 5 Freddy. "But if you want to get with it, come on over." Yo, home. Listen...