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CHRIS FARAONE

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Tanya Morgan | Brooklynati

Interdependent (2009)
Von Pea, Donwill, and Ilyas must have a master plan.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  May 06, 2009

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Hemp — the law, the musical

Dept. of Really Strange Bedfellows
When liberal congressmen like Barney Frank begin co-sponsoring bills with libertarians like Ron Paul, there must be something funny in the air.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 29, 2009

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Shuko + DJ Dutchmaster | The Foundation

Coalmine (2009)
It was inevitable that some of hip-hop's next great producers would come from Europe.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 28, 2009

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How the West was won

New book and documentary shine light on LA underground
Here’s how to familiarize yourself with the evolution of subterranean Los Angeles hip-hop.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 24, 2009

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Crips and Bloods: Made in America

The war at home
Stacy Peralta's new documentary Crips and Bloods: Made in America suggests how frightening it is to be born black and eight miles off the Pacific coastline.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 22, 2009

Casco Bay to Copley Square . . . via Hopkinton

Epic stupidity?
When Boston Marathon runners cross the Copley Square finish line next Monday and sponge the diarrhea off their thighs, Will Thomas and Seth Bradbury will have even more to celebrate than their fellow soiled athletes.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 15, 2009

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Review: For the Love of Movies

Why do some people get to watch movies for a living?
Like Trekkies and other documentaries that examine what makes particular nerd legions tick, For the Love of Movies beams viewers to a planet that outsiders only think they know about.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 15, 2009

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Amadeus the Stampede | House of Broken Mirrors

Leedz/Traffic  (2009)
For a shattered MC whose life story reads like Basketball Diaries, Kids, and Requiem combined and set in modern black Boston, the leather-throated hardcore rhyme horse has composed a focused solo debut.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 14, 2009

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Clik tracks

Buckshot and Black Moon get live
Hide your naughty daughters and aspiring MC sons: Brooklyn’s Duck Down is that kingly retrofitted, incomparably propped hip-hop label that all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to fuck with.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 13, 2009

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Another damn study

Timothy Jay, PhD, discusses words his colleagues won't
Some people argue that scholarly inquiry about profanity is pointless, and even laughable.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 13, 2009

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Crossing fingers

A long-time Downtown Crossing shopkeeper sees the neighborhood’s silver lining
When Red Sox World Series trophies need buffing, third-generation Downtown Crossing silversmith Mike Davis gets the phone call.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 08, 2009

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Quite Nyce & Raydar Ellis | Champs vs. the League

Brick (2009)
Boston's very own Brick Records is generally good for at least one of each year's most grounded desert-island-worthy rap releases, and Champs vs. the League fills the bill.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 06, 2009

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Will Brandeis lose its swagger?

Pass the Hat . . . Again
Ethnomusicologically invigorated Brandeis students and alumni are hoping for an outburst of criticism for the probable downsizing of Wayne Marshall.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 02, 2009

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Amnesty International liberates City Hall

The kids are all right
Old-school Jamaica Plain and Cambridge hippies had better step up their game.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  April 01, 2009

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Due Dilla-gence

Termanology bestows belated props on Jay Dee
Extraordinarily missed Detroit beat stylist J Dilla (a/k/a Jay Dee) was righteously benevolent.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 31, 2009

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Things fall apart

Hip-hop finds room to move at South-By.
As hipster, electronic, indie-rock, and rap cultures converge, MCs are taking cues from their other-genre contemporaries who rely on everything from stage props and antics to self-mutilation in the quest to entertain.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 25, 2009

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Get sprung

A bumpin' crop of spring hip-hop
Between the packages that turn up on my Jamaica Plain doorstep and the envelopes that stuff my Phoenix mailbox, I have enough music to start a mixtape spot in Downtown Crossing.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 18, 2009

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From your biggest fan

An open letter to Canibus (sans Dido interludes)
I e-mailed but you're still not calling. (I left my cell, my office, and my home number at the bottom.) You must not have got 'em; there must have been a problem with your servers or something.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 19, 2009

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Brother Ali | The Truth Is Here

Rhymesayers (2009)
My "greatest rapper" list reads differently from most. Ghostface Killah resides at the zenith, beside Rakim's throne, and Minneapolis truth agent Brother Ali.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 17, 2009

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Cheer of a black planet

Hip-Hop Worldwide: More Than a Nation conference
It's hip-hop week at Harvard University. And while that statement is far less ironic than it would have been 15 years ago, it's still relatively humorous.
By CHRIS FARAONE  |  March 11, 2009
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