 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Basketball's appeal starts on those neighborhood driveways.(Sports Extra)
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Byline: Bob Frisk
There was one easy way to boost your popularity in my neighborhood when I was growing up.
If you had a basketball hoop in your driveway, you were the envy of everyone. You suddenly had more friends than you knew what to do with.
I had a friend in the neighborhood who had a classy hoop over his garage and a driveway big enough to accommodate several players for a game. He even had the free-throw line marked 15 feet from the rim.
Where I lived, the driveway was too small and the houses too close together to encourage adding ...
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Rap Hip-Hops to Head of the Grammy Class.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...dollars make. In 1989, many of the hip-hop artists nominated in the first...Academy body. "Until members of the hip-hop music community started becoming...inside the system." Of course, hip-hop's inarguable mainstream appeal...
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Hip-Hop Summit Implements Strategies To Foster Its Growth, Strengthen Its Impact.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Jet
; Hip hop has become one of the most influential...large. During the first "Hip-Hop Summit: Taking Back Responsibility...came together to examine hip hops impact. "Were not here to clean...Industry Adoption of Hip-Hop Mentoring Programs Def Jam introduced...
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VH-1 hip-hops through genre's surprising past surprising past.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; ...WORTH, Texas _ And they said it wouldn't last. Hip-hop's takeover of the pop marketplace has not only...anything, "And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop" explodes the myth that hip-hop's a fad, a break-dancing b-boy blip...
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Farm Crew hip-hops to a different groove
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...wanted a name that was as far from hip-hop as possible, and then we threw 'Crew" on the end, because everything in hip-hop has 'a crew.' " So, Farm...d make anything even close to a hip-hop classic, but "Some Other Now" is...
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Smooth Bilal hip-hops over to flip side of soul.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...Maybe the only one not surprised that hip-hop/neo-soul upstart Bilal will be...game. Now everybody's correlating hip-hop with bebop. "It seems that every...something that sounds a little bit like hip-hop. Those influences are definitely...
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Fairview teacher hip-hops kids through ABCs
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune
; ...week!" students respond. This is Hip-Hop Scholastics. Garcia, who teaches...founded the program as a way for hip-hop music to serve as a bridge between...remember the words to these garbage hip-hop songs, then I'm making a mistake...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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VOICES OF YOUTH DOCUMENTARY `RHYME & REASON' HIP-HOPS ACROSS A CULTURE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...Who's it for? Those interested in hip-hop music. If you don't know the difference between rap and hip-hop and you're unsure about where...person in the projects. For many, hip-hop provides a way of earning respect...
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Hip-hop's biggest stars descending on Miami
Newspaper article from: Miami Times
; ...2003 This year's Source Hip-Hop Music Awards have found a home...burgeoning mecca for hip-hop culture. The star-studded...some the Super Bowl of hip-hop, the Source Awards are an annual nod to hip-hops best and brightest. The show...
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Excellent Novel Questions Hip-Hop and Explores Its Origins
Newspaper article from: Los Angeles Sentinel
; ...2001 Excellent Novel Questions Hip-Hop and Explores Its Origins...origins with the origins that hip hop manifested. Using oral tradition...Freedom" Huson is the hottest hip hop producer in New York City that...drum being a key element to hip hop music. In Africa the ...
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Hip-hop, hype ... and hope NBA players know it's all about image
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...highest-paid entertainer in the hip-hop industry. That may not sound...defying image tied in with the hip-hop (read young, urban, African...was like," says Boozer, whose hips- -not hip-hops--are ruined from hoops. Everywhere...
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