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Taking hip hop heads back to the days of the Native Tongue Collective, Slum Village delivers Trinity, an album which shows a marked improvement in lyrical skills since their debut album. The Detroit-based hip-hop group was originally comprised of two rappers, T3 and Baatin, and producer/DJ Jay Dee who produced head-bobbing beats for such legendary groups as A Tribe Called Quest. Jay Dee has since departed the trio, but appears on Trinity to bless the album with a few well-produced tracks such as “Let?...
Manchester, for those not fortunate enough to be acquainted with its sludgy canals and decaying factories, is a rundown post-industrial slum in the north-west of England. For two weeks in late July and early August, Manchester played host to the largest sports event to be held in England since the 1966 World...
...search to the city's North and South sides, she was forced to move her family in with her mother. "If it weren't for her, I would have been homeless," Brewster recalls. "I couldn't find a decent place. The only apartment I could find was in a slum area" suffering from "drug issues, gang issues and neglect." Brewster finally found a place close to her old neighborhood, but she had to empty her savings and borrow to scrape together the $800 a month and $1,500 security deposit...
Since last year, hundreds of al-Qaeda terrorists of Arab nationality, richer and better at blending in, have vanished into Karachi, the megacity of 12 million on the Arabian Sea. Diplomats say that the Qaeda fugitives who reached Karachi late last year "were not living in slum areas" but preferred high-rent districts where money buys high-walled privacy. Some were believed to have hidden in posh safe houses for much of the winter. But since then, they have scattered again. Says a senior Pakistani official: "They don't like to keep in one place. They're in lower-class...