Posts Tagged ‘hip hop’

Five interesting lessons from Jay-Z interview with Terry Gross

NPR Fresh Air host Terry Gross interviewed rapper and cultural icon Jay-Z last month and it proved one of the more interesting episodes of one of the best, longest-running radio shows around. Jay-Z was promoting his new book Decoded (about which Amazon has an interesting video interview). You should go ahead and listen to the [...]

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PW: College rapper Asher Roth from Bucks County to hip hop star

I helped profile upcoming rapper Asher Roth in the cover story of today’s Philadelphia Weekly. If there’s any truth in Revolutionary Road, American Beauty, Mad Men and the writing of John Cheever—that everyone in suburbia is secretly miserable, living life with crushing boredom or a crippling secret that’s killing them softly—you wouldn’t believe it on [...]

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