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Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2015
Twenty-seven years after Straight Outta Compton, can political hip-hop reach white listeners?

The success of recent releases by Run the Jewels and Kendrick Lamar suggests that, commercially speaking, the tide may turn for political-activist hip-hop.
- By Tanner Howard
- Tags: $$$, Music, Politics, N.W.A., Straight Outta Compton, political hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, Kendrick Lamar, To Pimp a Butterfly, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, M.K. Asante, Solomon Comissiong

Film, Movie Review Aug 14, 2015
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Straight Outta Compton plays it safe by sticking to interpersonal drama

The N.W.A. biopic devolves into trash talk and diss tracks.
- By Tyler Daswick
- Tags: Movie Review, Straight Outta Compton, F. Gary Gray, N.W.A., Ice Cube, Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, Yella, Jerry Heller, Paul Giamatti, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Matthew Libatique, Jonathan Herman, Andrea Berloff, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2013
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Reader exclusive: Album stream of Mines' Just Another Thing That Got Ruined

Plus a Q&A with front man Bill Satek to learn more about the band's beginnings, his career as a pipe fitter, and his youthful days spent waiting for Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Whoa, Music, Mines, Just Another Thing That Got Ruined, Sen Di Na, Jake Acosta, Brian Sulpizio, Lake Paradise, Ryan Scanlon, Teen River, Jeff Milam, Appetite for Destruction, Straight Out of Compton, N.W.A., Will Smith, Lechuguillas, Andrew Scott Young, Tiger Hatchery, Bill Satek, Video

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