"Some rappers that may have been a little more conscious when they came out — they're a little more party-rap right now," he says. "We gotta let hip-hop grow. We gotta let it go through its different phases throughout the different places that's accepting it. But I feel: Certain places, like New York, we need to keep our integrity and make sure that it's doing that thing that caught the world's ear in the beginning." 'The God MC'NPR.ORG Read Full Story
African-American Male UnemploymentThe unemployment rate for all African-Americans is about 50 percent higher than the nation as a whole — and even higher for African-American males.
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Mark Obama Ndesandjo and President Barack Obama share the same father. Ndesandjo, who lives in China, has just released a semi-autobiographical novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen, which includes details about life with Barack Obama Sr., a brilliant but abusive man. Read Full Story