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Hummingbird - small but aggressive wise guy with over the top groveling voice which is parody of Polish actor Witold Pyrkosz.

The cast included Grzegorz Kwiecień, Krzysztof Szczerbiński, Joanna Pach and a famous Polish cellebrity actor Jarosław Boberek as the voices for various secondary characters, most notably the Peacock and the Hummingbird.


Aar Maanta

Maanta has since worked with various other artists including Algerian Raï singer Abdelkader Saadoun, UK hip hop group the Choong Family, and Somali musicians Maryam Mursal and Ahmed 'Hudeydi' Ismail Hussein.

Anti-Social Music

Inspired by the success of the Nitrate Hymnal, ASM has partnered with innovative composers working outside the classical and jazz traditions in a new DIY commissioning program called "ASM Sleeps Around." The first partnership was with experimental hip hop group Dälek; the second was with Warn Defever from His Name Is Alive.

Anybody Seen My Baby?

It features wide-ranging inspirations, including sampling of hip-hop artist Biz Markie, making it one of the few songs by The Rolling Stones to include sampling (Bridges to Babylon is the only Rolling Stones album to include sampling).

Attic Records

ATIC Records, Manchester, United Kingdom electronic / Hip Hop label, founded by Aim in 2005

Breakestra

The style in which the breakestra plays in the live setting & on record is much influenced by late 60s and early 70s funk & soul-jazz music and the respective samples that were used in late 80s/early 90s hip hop as The Live Mix, Part 1 and The Live Mix, Part 2 show.

Christylez Bacon

It takes traditional hip-hop elements and fuses live instrumentation and genres from around the world...From there, my executive producer/friend/mentor, Bomani Armah, helped me sort through the collection, discarding the fluff.

Craig Adams

DJ Assault (Craig De Sean Adams, born 1977), hip-hop DJ and musician

Crawford Hall

The facility's outdoor breezeway is also informally recognized within the UC Irvine community as the rehearsal space for hip hop dance team Kaba Modern.

Dance India Dance

The dancers are put through a battery of rounds which test their ability to pick up various dance styles (typically some of the more well-represented genres that will later be prominent in the competition phase, such as Hip-Hop, Bollywood Dance, Jazz, Bharat Natyam, Kathak, Mohiniyattam, Odissi and Contemporary).

Decon

Originally named Deconstruction Company, the company was founded in 2002 by Peter Bittenbender and Jason Goldwatch after the success of their award-winning hip-hop documentary and accompanying soundtrack, One Big Trip.

Dragon Fli Empire

Their music is inspired by classic hip hop beats like those of Pete Rock, Large Professor and Prince Paul.

Germaine Cousin

The miracles attested were cures of every kind (of blindness, congenital and resulting from disease, of hip and spinal disease), besides the multiplication of food for the distressed community of the Good Shepherd at Bourges in 1845.

Grace, Too

In 1995, The Tragically Hip performed the song on Saturday Night Live.

Haitian hip hop

The most well-known exports of Haitian hip hop are two members of the legendary Grammy Award-winning hip hop group, the Fugees, Wyclef Jean and his cousin Pras Michel (a.k.a. Pras).

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".

Hot Boyz

Hot Boys, an American hip hop group active from 1996 to 2001 then reformed in 2007 and currently on hiatus

House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute

The mansion comes with a platinum colored Mercedes-Benz 430 and, although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or have people over, Jon Jon wastes no time in doing both; Jon Jon is not only having an "entertainment party", but he's auditioning his hip-hop band (IMx) for a record executive.

Izzo

"-izzle", a slang African American English suffix used in pop-culture hip hop slang

Jonathan Emile

Jonathan Emile works with cellist Denis Brott to combine chamber music with hip-hop, in order to expose youth to classical music.

Juba Kalamka

He has been a speaker, panelist, and curator for numerous organizations and conferences, among them the San Francisco Black Gay/Lesbian Film Festival, GLAAD, Hip Hop as a Movement at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Burning Closets/Working Our Way Home at Oberlin College.

King Size Terror

Later Karakan became part of the first successful project of Turkish Hip Hop: Cartel.

Mac Minister

Mac Minister was profiled on an episode of America's Most Wanted, allegedly responsible for the murder of Anthony "Fat-Tone" Watkins in Las Vegas, Nevada, in retaliation for the murder of Bay Area hip-hop legend Mac Dre.

Mando Fresko

Currently, he can be heard on the nation’s biggest hip-hop station, Power 106 FM (105.9) Los Angeles.

Marcus Brosch

In the mid-90s, he founded the Hip-Hop group Aroma with Menzel and Philipp Grüthering which was the predecessor of the progressive group Deichkind.

Music of Ghana

The originator of this style is Reggie Rockstone, a Ghanaian musician who dabbled with hip-hop in the United States before finding his unique style.

New York City Breakers

Holman's close friend, legendary graffiti artist/pioneer Phase II created the flyers for these Hip Hop nights.

No One Can Do It Better

Most of the songs were influenced and sampled from funk artists such as Marvin Gaye, Parliament, and Funkadelic, but one track in particular was influenced by other genres, "Beautiful But Deadly", a rock-hip hop track, influenced by Run-D.M.C. with a heavy guitar riff throughout the song (it borrows from Funkadelic's Cosmic Slop).

North Dallas Vandals

Another notable appearance included Marc D of the hip-hop trio the GS Boyz, known for their hit single, "Stanky Legg".

Old Scona Academic High School

Numerous student-run clubs are available at Old Scona Academic, such as Multicultural Club, Speech & Debate Club, Go Club, Business/Finance Club, Hip Hop Club, Bollywood club, Reading Buddies, and Discussion Club.

Rajae El Mouhandiz

2007 "Conversations With Ice" by Sahr Ngaujah – Over 't IJ 2007. The question of Value (Who decides Who buys), within the context of the global diamond trade, Sierra Leone’s child soldiers, and it's links to the Bling sub-culture in Hip-Hop.

Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records

Rosa Parks v. LaFace Records, et al. was a lawsuit filed in March 1999 on Rosa Parks' behalf against American hip-hop duo OutKast and LaFace Records, claiming that the group had illegally used Rosa Parks' name without her permission for the song "Rosa Parks", the most successful radio single of OutKast's 1998 album Aquemini.

Rush Sturges

He has not yet released an album, but his songs have been featured in various kayaking movies, and he has opened for the hip hop groups Swollen Members and Subliminal Sabotage.

Rusty Ps

The Rusty Ps is a three time WAMI award winner for the Best Hip-Hop/Rap category, in the years 2000, 2001 and 2006.

Secure Mobile Architecture

Its central features were the use of the Host Identity Protocol (HIP), cryptographic identities, secure directories, and location to make policy-based information about users and the network available to applications, management systems, and intelligent network components.

Sharon Carpenter

Carpenter is also a co-creator and main cast member of the VH1 reality series, “The Gossip Game”, a show that follows the lives and careers of seven female media personalities reporting on the hip-hop entertainment industry.

Sociedad Latina

In 2003, The Boston Globe profiled Sociedad Latina’s Unique Rhythm dance team that performed salsa, merengue, hip-hop, and other styles, with participants receiving tutoring and additional support services.

Sökarna

The Swedish hip-hop group Infinite Mass gained public attention after their appearance in the movie with their controversial song "Area Turns Red", also known as "Shoot the Racist".

Stacked Up

The political background in Britain, and the impending passing of the Criminal Justice Act into statute paved the way for a series of politically influenced artists such as The Levellers, The Prodigy, Dreadzone, and Pop Will Eat Itself, and Senser fit into that group with a blend of aggressive hip-hop, thrash metal and psychedelic ambience.

Stalag version

The rhythm also influenced early hip-hop, and can be discerned on Public Enemy's hit 'Don't Believe the Hype' as well as on Too Short's Blowjob Betty.

Sureshot

DJ Sure Shot, stage name for the hip hop musician Mark Duffus of the group Blak Prophetz

Tefla and Jaleel

Tefla & Jaleel are a hip hop group from Chemnitz in Eastern Germany.

Thai hip hop

In early 1990s Thai hip hop is origins by pop/dance artists include Jetrin Wattanasin in album Jor-Ae-Bor (จ เ-ะ บ), and Touch Na Takuathung in album Touch Thunder (ทัช ธันเดอร์), the album mixed dance-pop with rap, also artists such as Raptor a duo consisting of Louis Scott and Joni Anwar mixed dance-pop with rap, and some success in song "Superhero" (ซูเปอร์ฮีโร่) from album Raptor (แร็พเตอร์).

The Giancana Story

Steve "Flash" Juon of RapReviews rated The Giancana Story at 7½ out of ten, noting "This album is not quite as strong as 1998's highly slept on Roots of Evil CD or seminal classics like Live and Let Die, but if you want to get your first taste of the Mario Puzo of hip-hop, it's a great place to start".

The Miracles – Depend On Me: The Early Albums

The Miracles – Depend On Me: The Early Albums is a 2009 double-CD limited release by Motown Records' original vocal group The Miracles, released through Universal's Hip-O Select imprint to coincide with the legendary Motown label's 50th anniversary.In addition, this collection's release also coincided with The Miracles' being honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 20 of that year.

The New Colossus

In the 2009 hip-hop song "The New Colossus" by Kinetics & One Love, rapper Kinetics loosely references lines from the Lazarus poem and raps about the Statue of Liberty as well as the Colossus of Rhodes, on which the poem is based.

The Way I Rock My Clothes

"The Way I Rock My Clothes" is a single released by Hip-hop artist/Producer Funkghost.

Tricksta

In 2001, Tricksta founded the UK hip hop mixtape series UK Runnings and since then as a DJ has also done mixtapes with a string of American artists including—but not limited to—Chamillionaire, Red Cafe, Papoose, Stat Quo, Sheek Louch, J-Hood, 40 Glocc and Spider Loc from G-Unit Records.

Varsity letter

During the 1980s, and again in the 2010s, Varsity Jackets have been adopted into Hip-hop fashion, with companies such as Avirex, Phat Farm and Rocawear making their own variations.

Youth Communication

Youth Communication counts many notable alumni, including the authors Edwidge Danticat (Breath Eyes Memory), Veronica Chambers (Mama's Girl), and Gina Trapani (LifeHacker), the hip hop writer and actor Bönz Malone, and the reporters Rachel Swarns (The New York Times), and Mohamad Bazzi (Newsday).


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