GURU

Guru, the mellow-voiced half of hip-hop vets Gangstarr, has a new baby. Matter of fact, he has two: Keith Casim Elam, who was born at the end of July, and his Jazzmatazz: Street Soul project that arrives in stores October 3. He's clearly hyped about both and talks about them animatedly during an interview in Virgin Records' New York headquarters.

GURU

Where do you put an accomplished singer/ songwriter/
pianist with a vocal range spanning six octaves of both beauty and power, and who has managed (on the success of two albums alone) nearly eight years of international touring? Where do you put a woman who's shared company with such jazz greats as George Duke, Quincy Jones, and the immortal Dizzy Gillespie, while receiving much praise from contemporary r&b stars like Deborah Cox, Angie Stone, and Isaac Hayes? Where do you put Rachelle Ferrell?
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Shaggy 's music defies easy categorization. One thing for sure is that it is reggae influenced. He sees himself as being in a privileged position to be able to do a song that can cross many borders and be readily accepted. He concedes that there is a conscious deviation from the pure dancehall/reggae format that his music takes and it works.
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Mastermind has always dreamed of exposing new music to the masses both American and Canadian hip hop. That dream carried him from his own campus radio show over 13 years ago at York University's CHRY 105.5 FM to Energy 108 where he now hosts The Mastermind Street Jam, Canada's first urban mix show on commercial radio. Later this month, he will release a highly anticipated mix-CD as a recording artist on Virgin Music Canada.
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 This self-taught progressive 35-year-old, one of the Council of Fashion Designers of America's most promising designers, stands squarely up against other cosmopolitan creators with much to say when it comes to urban fashion. It's a tough world out there but Malone has been doing it his way from the get-go with the constant support of loyal buyers who loved his style.full story

Friendship, loyalty, beatdowns, death, dispair and a healthy distrust of the outside world has been the glue that kept M.O.P members Billy Danz and Fame together. In fact it has been a means to their survival. Check the concrete jungle that many of America's inner cities have become and you'll find the seeds that have created M.O.P. For this Brooklyn-based crew, hip hop is seen as one of the few legitimate ways out with a very high premium on being hardcore.
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