50 years of hip-hop history: Houston : NPR
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Isolated at the bottom of the map, the Bayou City had to build its scene from scratch, and its influence inched ever outward. Today you can hear its pulse everywhere, beating slow and low.
Isolated at the bottom of the map, the Bayou City had to build its scene from scratch, and its influence inched ever outward. Today you can hear its pulse everywhere, beating slow and low.
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Here's why hip-hop's 50th anniversary is this week, in August 2023
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Turning 50: Writing Women into the Story of Hip-Hop, Five Decades
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Hip-hop is 50. Its formula for global domination? Staying local
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Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop (Group 6) – Black Music Scholar
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Free-of-charge hip-hop museum to make one-day stop in Houston next
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A history of hip-hop in Georgia: From Jack the Rapper to 'rap's
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All Rap Is Local: A city-by-city guide to hip-hop's first half
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All Rap Is Local: A city-by-city guide to hip-hop's first half
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Rapper Juvenile introduces new adult beverage to Houston fans at
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Hip hop music - Wikipedia
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50 years of hip-hop history: New York : NPR
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Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along