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2008 may go down as the year when hip-hop culture finally learned to grow up and stop depending on corporate interests whose priorities are not really the well-being of the music and musicians. This year, political and economic conditions converged to create a perfect storm, giving hip-hop no option but to sink or swim. Sales of rap recordings, both offline and online, have been in steep decline. It's not about piracy so much as people simply refusing to buy what's being pushed on them. Sluggish sales have resulted in record-label executives being very selective about the acts they get behind, and the few performers and groups they have decided to promote are being nickel-and-dimed at every opportunity.
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Peace! It’s time to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the World’s first, largest and most legendary grassroots Hip Hop organization: The Universal Zulu Nation! For the events in NYC, simply bring in a flyer, print out a flyer or bring in your Zulu I.D. and get in for only $10 at the events from Thursday, Nov. 6 through Saturday, Nov. 8, 2008. Sunday’s Meeting of the Minds is FREE!!! See you there!
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One of the provisions of the FCC approval over the merger of XM and Sirius was the promise of leasing out a portion of the satellite spectrum to minority broadcasters. However, since the merger officially began, there has not been any word about the fate of the channels to be leased. According to Ars Technica, time is running out for the FCC to decide which broadcasters will lease the channels. As part of the merger qualifications, Sirius XM has four months since the merger to give at least one "qualified entry" from a minority owned broadcaster access to lease four percent of Sirius and XM's combined channels, which adds up to a dozen in all.
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Cornell University’s Ithaca, New York campus is set to host two days of performances and discussions with some of Hip-Hop’s pioneers next week, to mark the school’s historical acquisition of a collection of documents from Hip-Hop’s early days. The collection, titled “Born in the Bronx: The Legacy and Evolution of Hip Hop,” was recently presented to the school library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections as a gift from author and collector Johan Kugelberg. It consists of almost one thousand sound recordings, textile art, books and magazines, as well as the archives of Bronx photographer Joe Conzo, Jr. and more than five hundred original flyers designed by pioneering flyer designers like Buddy Esquire and others.
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