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February 16, 2017

How Jay Z and Hot 97 Combined Forces to Take Over Hip-Hop

FROM PITCHFORK By:Thomas Golianopoulos In the ’90s, the alliance between New York’s most influential rap radio station and the ultimate ...

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November 19, 2014

Hip Hop: The Billion Dollar Industry that Criminalizes Black People

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:30 AM

In 2006 Nas declared that "Hip Hop is Dead." So anything that appears to be Hip Hop now should be thought of as the music indust...

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September 2, 2014

Chuck D teams up with Mavis Staples for “Give WE the Pride”

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:00 AM

Chuck D has teamed up with legendary soul singer Mavis Staples on a song that direct attacks today’s rap music and its lyrical content t...

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July 30, 2014

All Hip Hop founder Chuck Creekmur Open Letter to Nicki Minaj

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:47 AM

Perhaps the founder of All Hip Hop.com should familiarized himself with the phrase "chickens come home to roost." The consequenc...

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June 24, 2014

Why Iggy Azalea’s music is so popular and problematic

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:23 AM

If Iggy isn’t a great rapper, why is she so popular? Is it her whiteness? And is her reign part of a larger industry plot to whitewash bla...

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September 16, 2013

Charlamagne @CthaGod Comments on Hot 97 Mister Cee

Urban Radio Nation Staff 4:00 AM

Charlamagne Gives 'The Donkey of the Day' to the Hip Hop Community and their Homophobia Charlamagne calls out Hot 97 for exploit...

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August 14, 2013

Twitter Loses It's #@*&^% Mind Over Kendrick Lamar, How Could Radio Let This Happen?

Urban Radio Nation Staff 9:25 PM

"Girl, I'm Kendrick Lamar, A.K.A. Benz-is-to-me-just-a-car, That mean your friends-es need be up to par...

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December 12, 2012

Hot 97 PD Ebro Darden Has a Message for New York Rappers, now Rosenberg Fires Back at his boss!

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:00 AM

Not Since Summer Jam's Nicki Minaj Dis Has Hot 97 Generated This Much Buzz on the blogs Ebro Darden , the Program Director at HOT 97...

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July 11, 2012

How Mixtapes Are Killing Black Music

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:29 PM

If Lil Wayne comes out tomorrow and states that the Mixtape game is dead and he will no longer deal with it, then watch how many rappers fol...

MTV’s Hip Hop POV with Power 105.1's Charlamagne Tha God (Full Episode 1) [VIDEO]

Urban Radio Nation Staff 7:58 PM

Here is the first episode of MTV’s new weekly show “Hip Hop POV” which will give viewers an inside look into the world of Hip Hop. The first...

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February 27, 2012

Dr. Boyce Watkins: Black People Must Take Commercialized Hip-Hop to Task

Urban Radio Nation Staff 5:39 AM

Tyler the Creator is destined to become the most popular Tyler in the country, if what is now called hip hop is left in the hands of corpo...

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December 16, 2011

Common Releases His Entire New Album “The Dreamer, The Believer” on YouTube [Listen Here]

Urban Radio Nation Staff 12:00 AM

We grabbed the full version from YouTube and you can listen to it below In the world of marketing and promoting new music the rules for dist...

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December 12, 2011

Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall Concert Received Too Much Media Hype?

Urban Radio Nation Staff 10:00 AM

Maybe not. But definitely for the wrong reason. Jay-Z will perform two shows at Carnegie Hall in February to benefit the Shawn Carter Schola...

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October 18, 2011

David Banner visits Occupy Wall Street and questions Hip Hop and "Our Culture"

Urban Radio Nation Staff 6:00 AM

Rapper David Banner made a recent appearance on BET's 106 & Park and ranted on Black music, culture, and men putting on dresses in t...

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