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Giant in Internet Radio-Pandora May Soon Close Its Doors
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Pandora is one of the nation's most popular Web radio services, with about 1 million listeners daily. Its Music Genome Project allows customers to create stations tailored to their own tastes. It is one of the 10 most popular applications for Apple's iPhone and attracts 40,000 new customers a day. Yet the burgeoning company may be on the verge of collapse, according to its founder, and so may be others like it...
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Rick Ross Sued For the Beat Down of DJ Vlad
DJ Vlad filed a $4 million dollar lawsuit against Rick Ross in Federal Court in New York on Friday (August 15), claiming that the Miami MC orchestrated a "brutal attack" on Vlad (born Vlad Lyubovny) at the Ozone Awards in Houston last Sunday. The suit alleges that Ross orchestrated a brutal attack upon DJ Vlad, carried out by his accomplices, in retribution for media coverage of Rick Ross' prior life as a correctional officer....
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Can Hip Hop Help felons Restore Voting Rights
Moreover, if people who have completed a sentence from felony charges are still not voting because they continue to live with the stigma of the past, it is not good for humanity. We are living in a country where 67 percent of young people ages 18-29 who have not gone to college do not believe they can make a difference in their communities....
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Kool DJ Red Alert Celebrates 25 Years on the Radio
Not enough can be said or written about Hip Hop's premier radio deejay Kool DJ Red Alert.
He's been on the scene from day one. He came up under Afrika Bambaataa and is cousin to the legendary Jazzy Jay. Red was also recently honored for holding it down on commercial radio longer then anyone else. He started wrecking turntables back in '76-'77 at many of the early Hip Hop block parties...
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