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| Introduction | |
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| I'm Audi | |
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| It Was a Wonderful World Biggie Smalls The Village Voice | |
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| Sensitive Thugs | |
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| The Family Man Eninem Rolling Stone | |
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| The Life of a Hunted Man (50 Cent,Rolling Stone) | |
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| DMX Drives Crazy, but He Loves You (Rolling Stone) | |
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| I'm Scared to Death, but I Gotta Live Biggie Smalls Rolling Stone | |
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| The Toughest Record Exec Ever Dick Griffey XXL | |
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| Big Willies Best Rapper Alive Puff Daddy The Village Voice | |
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| Hiphop's Biggest Kid Grows Up Russell Simmons Playboy | |
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| The Power of Radio Andre Harrell unpublished | |
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| Al Sharpton Has a Dream (Playboy) | |
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| Ships Passing in the Night Barack Obama Colin Powell Suedemagazine | |
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| Icaruses | |
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| Invincible Man Tupac The Village Voice | |
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| The Ivy League Counterfeiter Cliff Evans Rolling Stone | |
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| The Greatest Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of Al Parker Jr.,Tennismagazine) | |
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| Inherit the Wind | |
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| The Mystery of Lauryn Hill (Rolling Stone) | |
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| Almost Famous | |
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| A Woman Possessed | |
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| The Next Queen of Soul | |
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| Lauryn in Love | |
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| Kurt Is My Copilot | |
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| Get Up, Get Out, and Get Involved | |
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| Jay-Z Has Got Guts (Rolling Stone) | |
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| Do You Like My Jesus Piece? | |
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| You Can Call Him Prince | |
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| Wynton Marsalis Wants to Kick Your Ass | |
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| Just Jen | |
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| Microphone Fiend | |
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| "Crack Is Responsible for Hiphop" | |
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| Strange Fruit | |
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| Condoleezza Rice Is a House Negro (Suedemagazine) | |
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| Show Me the Money | |
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| The Five-Mic Personality, or Why I Hate | |
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| Somehow, There's Love in the Hiphop Nation | |
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| I Live in the Hiphop Nation (The New York Times) | |
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| Love Your Niggas (The Village Voice) | |
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| Are Gay Rappers Too Real for Hiphop? (Caushun,The New York Times) | |
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| Hiphop Famiglia (Junior M.A.F.I.A. and the Wu-Tang Clan,The Village Voice) | |
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| No Drinks in '96! (Funkmaster Flex,The New Yorker) | |
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| Boys Will Be Boys | |
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| Trainspotting (The New Yorker) | |
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| Night Moves (The New Yorker) | |
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| Bling-bling Makes the Dictionary! (unpublished) | |
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| An Invitation to Carnal Russian Roulette, or Memoirs of a Sexual Desperado (The Bastard on the Couch) | |
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| Who Do You Think You Are? | |
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| What's Inside You, Brother? (The Best American Essays1996) | |
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| A Funky Fresh Talented Tenth (unpublished) | |
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| The Blackest Tennis Club in the World (Tennismagazine) | |
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| I Can't Take It | |
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| At Jam Master Jay's Funeral (unpublished) | |