Growing up hip hop: atlanta articles
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Jelly Roll Performs Hip Hop Hits at Country-Themed Stagecoach Festival
Jelly Roll put a new spin on the country-themed Stagecoach Festival Friday night, cranking out a few rap songs while also bringing out T-Pain to add even more spice to the performance. The country music star hit the T-Mobile Mane Stage in Indio,…
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Iran sentence hip-hop star Toomaj Salehi to death over protest support
Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death (Picture: Robert Deyrail/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi has been sentenced to death. An Iranian revolutionary court sentenced the well-known hip hop star today (April 24) for charges linked to Iran’s 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told the Iranian newspaper Sharq. Salehi was initially arrested in October 2022 after voicing support for the nationwide Woman, Life, Freedom protests. Salehi showed solidarity for the...
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‘Reagan gave us something to rap about’: how hip-hop has interacted with US politics
New documentary Hip-Hop and the White House looks back at how presidents have rejected or embraced those within the genre, from Reagan to TrumpAt the 1985 presidential inauguration ball, a made-for-TV black-tie affair that was something in between a concert and a roast, an expectant Ronald Reagan looked on from the dais for Jimmy Stewart to bring up the next act. “And now,” a grizzled George Bailey intoned, “to present the excitement of youth, the sights and the sounds of a big city, here are...