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State legislators debate the lyrics to a rap song.

Certain kinds of music are supposed to make white people "racist."

"Nipsey Hussle" was set to perform.

Riots broke out after a rapper was rumored to be making an appearance.

At one point they even confiscated a rocket launcher.

After a verbal dispute.

Black professor believes Jay-Z lyrics "reflect incisive social commentary."

It's only about sex now.

Black fetus gets excited by sound of hip hop music; white fetus "grimaces."

No surprises here.

The First Lady reveals her idea of high culture.

Looks like the jig's up for Gadhafi.

Are there any other reasons a Holiday Inn might not want gunfire in the restaurant?

Top figures bring in more than $100 million each.

Black blogger thinks students would like blacks better if there were more at their school.

Rapper wishes Obama would do more for blacks, even at the expense of another term.

Rap "mogul": Oprah "can't have a network that appeals to just vanilla audiences."

Rappers make money by degrading blacks.

They sound just like American rappers.

Album's already been released; rapper gets released this week.

Foisting rappers on people who like country music.

It's time for rappers to get "political."

"Citizen peacekeepers" will be "Educating Neighborhoods to Obey Those in Authority."

Hip-hop awards given off the air. Any guesses why?

What could go wrong?

Army says hip hop "song" threatens "good order and discipline."

Will there be a dress code?

New York City mourns talented youth.

New "Barbie" dolls are still not black enough.

Black dolls come with bling, fancy sneakers, and straight hair.

New Fox analyst a "leading hip-hop generation intellectual."

Another black celebrity behaving badly.

Hip-hop and congressional politics--a natural mix.

Not a member of the Hip Hop Caucus.

You don't get to be a name in the rap world by studying Shakespeare.

Not you, whitey.

It must have missed the artists who rap about Socrates, Descartes, and Hume.

"It's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg."

Another Amy Biehl.

In Pacific Northwest, hip-hop increasingly a white thing.

Black Floridians like showing off their boxer shorts.

"In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue."

In the world of hip-hop, better to have been a criminal than a teacher or a chemist.

Rap declining "because they can no longer fool the white kids," says band manager.

Aspiring rapper charged with planning VT-style "murderous rampage."

Swapping refugees.

Major record labels reluctant to jeopardize profits by cleaning up rap.

Korean homies dress, strut, and rhyme in street fashion.

Rapper simulates rape of underage girl; crowd cheers, girl blamed for provocative dress.

Author: "Ghetto is no longer where you liveit’s how you live."

Sharpton says he’s not going to send "mixed signals" about gutter rap.

Rapper/firefighter song: "I’m gonna turn pigs into bacon bits."

"Go back to your mamas and ask why you were raised to act like hooligans and hoodlums!"

UCLAsia.

NAACP in a tizzy over "Thug Day" at white high school in Dallas.

Black murdered white police officer under influence of "gangsta rap."

Non-white French rappers believe France is a "whore."

Rapper who said President doesn't care about blacks is "filling a void of leadership."

Education professor believes studying rap is an "empowering, liberating pedagogy."

Muslim who rapped about overthrowing government worked at American airport.

Black murderer in Britain celebrated his crime in a rap song.

Beanie Sigel is another 'gangsta' rapper who practiced what he preached.

New children's movie features soundtrack by gangsta rappers.

Hip-hop is the new fashion in children's toys.

Inmate escapes while rap video is filmed at black-run jail.

"He’s a gangsta corridista."

The gangsta vote.

Our debt to Liberia?

Mayor Hip-Hop.

Blacks good, whites bad.

No love lost.

William Clinton — black superstar.

Comes another rapist.

No penis, no peace.

Zimbabwe on the brink.