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The mid-late ’90s felt like a crisis point for hip-hop: the deepening rift between mainstream and underground rap, along with the lyrical focus on high-budget conspicuous consumption from platinum-selling artists, felt like breaking points that supposedly compromised what hip-hop was supposed to remain true to. Whether hip-hop needed to look back to its party-music roots […]
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Missy Elliott: Surprise For Little Mix Fans
submitted by Nick Apr 19th 2013 12:01 pm (www.antimusic.com)
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U.K. pop group Little Mix surprised fans this week when they decided to bump up the release date of their new single 'How Ya Doin'?' featuring Missy Elliot
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Rihanna: Missy Elliott and Billy Joel in US royalties fight
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Up to 125 musicians are campaigning to stop online play royalties being slashed
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Billy Joel: Rihanna fight Pandora over compensation
submitted by Nick Nov 14th 2012 08:00 pm (news.yahoo.com)
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(Reuters) - Some of music's most notable names including Billy Joel, Rihanna and Missy Elliott have signed an open letter to Pandora Media Inc opposing the online music company's push to change how artists are compensated. Pandora is currently lobbying lawmakers in U.S. Congress to pass the "Internet Radio Fairness Act...
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A Tribe Called Quest: Watch B.E.T. Hip-Hop Awards 2012 Highlights: Kendrick Lamar, Missy Elliott, A Tribe Called Quest, E-40, T.I., A$AP Rocky
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Last night, BET aired its annual Hip-Hop Awards, and there were a couple of notable moments at the awards show proper. Kendrick Lamar got a solo-star showcase, performing “The Recipe” and “Swimming Pools (Drank).” And as a tribute to the recently-deceased rap-star manager Chris Lighty, a deeply fun and ran...
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Missy Elliott: – “9th Inning” & “Triple Threat” (Feat. Timbaland)
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Back in the late ’90s and early ’00s, Missy Elliott and Timbaland got together to make some gloriously weird and revolutionary pop music, essentially grabbing rap radio by its neck and turning it into a safe place for stranger, more personal visions than anything you’d hear at your local indie rock club. It̵...
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