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Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com Tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees. Violence erupted as thousand of protesters battled police and stormed the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party. Over 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters demonstrated against plans to raise the cost of [...]

There’s a record shop just down from Notting Hill Gate tube station in London. If you dig through the racks (‘Hip-Hop/Rap, section P’), you’ll come across a particular marked-down seven-inch record. It shows a bemused-looking Pharoahe Monch, dressed up in an Elvis jumpsuit and stunner shades, rocking a spectacular afro. The fabulous Pharoahe Monch! blares [...]

Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), also known as Saartjie Baartman or the Hottentot Venus, was an African woman who became a sideshow in London and Paris. She was almost completely naked and had a very large behind, even for the part of Africa she came from – near Cape Town in South Africa. Those who paid more were allowed to [...]

Download Video or MP3 -Iamnotarapperispit.com From W.A.R. (We Are Renegades.) Pharoahe Monch took to the London airwaves on Kiss 100s, Hip Hop Show on Sunday, hosted by Shortee Blitz and DJ MK, with a spontaneous live in-studio premiere performance of his new song, titled ‘Clap’. Produced by M-Phazes and featuring Showtime on the chorus, “Clap” [...]

Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and morally unfit should be sterilised. Professor David Marsland is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Buckingham. He argues that the only way [...]

Scientists now admit that emissions from aircraft are forming artificial clouds that block out the sun, precisely what geoengineering advocates like top eugenicist and White House science advisor John P. Holdren have called for, but the article tries to insinuate that the effect is caused by natural “vapours,” when in reality it can be attributed [...]

Astonishingly, as Wall Street reform enters its final hours a tired, generic corporate refrain against regulation is gaining traction. As bigwig bankers and their lobbyist brethren fight to defeat tough new rules on derivatives—the crazy casino that brought down AIG—all their sloganeers can come up with is the trite wail that serious rules will send [...]

M.I.A., the provocative British-Sri Lankan rapper, is famous for supporting righteous warfare in her highly-political lyrics. Now, she’s engaged in a pitched battle with a celebrity journalist over an unflattering profile that appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This weekend, she hit back by posting to the Internet two secretly-made recordings of the interview [...]

Jay gave The Most Influential an interview when he was in London at Spine’s headquarters. Jay Electronica is the rapper’s rapper- the modern hip-hop avatar. Beyond the confines of real vs. fake, street vs. studio, he simply exists as an example of what happens when you apply pure skill, intelligence & perseverance to the music [...]

  A You Tube clip shot by an eyewitness near the Times Square car bomb incident on Saturday night highlights why many people who were caught up in the bomb scare thought that the police were running a drill at the time of the botched attack.  Eyewitnesses, including those who comment on the video on [...]

There are many screens in our lives today – the TV screen, the computer screen, the mobile screen and now the tablet screen. But when it comes to delivering video clips to those screens, each one has to be treated differently, scaled to handle not only the different connection speeds but also the variations in [...]

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