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HIP-HOP/RAP: Hip Hop, SPOKEN WORD: With Music



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Some believe Hip-Hop is dead and that the culture needs to break away from corporate control. Others say real Hip-Hop is in a cocoon, and that something stronger and more beautiful will emerge at the right time. Then there are those who have given up on it altogether.

Well, there's a buzz coming out of Baltimore about a new hip-hop / spoken word duo that are changing peoples view of the genre across a wide range of ages and lifestyles.

"Precise Science: Everybody's Not Gonna Make It" is being heralded as the benchmark standard of the new evolution in conscious hip-hop. Can Hip-Hop be political but not preachy? Spirtual but not sappy? Educational, edgy, ecclectic - yet still pleasing to the ear, musically? Hip-Hop lives.

"The album is fire!"
- Sparlha Swa

"Very nice, indeed I love it, we need it!"
- Dionne Farris

"The piece on Marcus Garvey is for all to hear "
- Faruq Muhammad, Counsel General, UNIA Legal Defense Committee

"Everything they say, every word, is precise science"
- Phil Valentine, World Renowned Metaphysician

"...like a splash of cold water, refreshing."
- Speech of Arrested Development

In a time of shock jock media hype, corrupted radio staions and notions of censoring lyrics, here comes an inspiring response in the form of a melodic journey through the hearts and minds of the Afrikan Centered Conscious Community. Check these brothers out!

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