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unusual facts about Hip hop culture



The Urbz: Sims in the City

Hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas provided several music scores for the game, which have also been translated into Simlish.

Wisconsin Area Music Industry

Other notable artists to receive awards include alternative rock group Garbage, rockers Fever Marlene and Verona Grove, hip hop/rap group Rusty Ps, and polka artists Verne Meisner and Louis Bashell.


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Conversation games

The Dozens – A popular game originating from Hip-hop culture where players verbally spar in an attempt to entertainingly insult one another.

Their popularity has gained in part due to the hip hop culture and TV shows like Wild 'N Out and Yo Momma.

Homie

Manthia Diawara, author of the article "Homeboy Cosmopolitan", writes, "Hip-hop culture gives aesthetic pleasure through ironic and parodic play with mainstream images of black people".

Imposs

For 2 consecutive years (2008 and 2009), rapper Imposs won the prize for "Best francophone artist of the year", during the Quebec Sounds of Blackness Awards (S.O.B.A) specializing in urban and hip hop culture.

Native American hip hop

Melle Mel, the first rapper to ever use the epithet MC, is Cherokee and Ernie Paniccioli, a famous photographer of hip-hop culture who grew up in Brooklyn, is Cree.

Pan-Africanism

In his article “Hip-hop Turns 30: Whatcha Celebratin’ For?,” Greg Tate describes hip-hop culture as the product of a Pan-African state of mind.

Shamako Noble

Shamako has also written for many different websites and magazines, and in 2001 became co-editor (along with long-time collaborator Emcee Lynx) of H2O: The Hip Hop Observer, a monthly on-line and print journal of hip hop culture and activism which produced 3 issues before collapsing due to a lack of funds.