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2011 Gems: Jackie Chain puts on for Alabama's SLAB culture
Let's face it: there's too much new music in a year for any one human being to digest. "2011 Gems" is a December feature on Midnight Sun where I highlight some of the tracks that might have flown under your radar. First up is Jackie Chain's smooth tribute...Tags: G-Side (music group), Music
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Rapper Kane Mayfield on new music, J Dilla tribute
He is one of the city's most promising rappers, but Kane Mayfield has yet to release a solo debut — because the 29-year-old and his label, Baltimore's Mania Music Group, "believe in quality control."
Mayfield says he submits six to 10 recordings to...Tags: Music Industry, Music, Percocet (drug), Tampa
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Rome Cee, Baltimore's most promising rapper, knows redemption first hand
Rome Cee is counting in German.
“Eins, zwei, drei, vier …”
It’s an oppressively humid July afternoon and the 29-year-old rapper, born Jerome Carrington Jr., is dressed in black and gray, sipping a hot cup of coffee in a Fells...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, Health and Safety at School, Hunt Valley, Fells Point
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Charlie Wilson spans the R&B generation gap
Charlie Wilson has been alive for 58 years, and has been singing for nearly all of them — first in his church choir and then in the Gap Band, the pioneering funk group he formed at the age of 14 with his brothers Ronnie and Robert.
That long,...Tags: Lollapalooza, The Gap, Prostate Cancer, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Minority Groups
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Justice delayed leaves time to die
Sun StaffEarl Rodney Monroe Jr. was 14 when police first arrested him. In a little more than a year, officers nabbed the boy 10 more times, lodging felony charges that pointed to one conclusion: Lil' Earl was dealing drugs on the streets of his West Baltimore...Tags: Police Arrests, Court Preliminary, Adults, Trials, Prisons
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Courtroom drama: Curtain going up on Ray Lewis trial
Sun National StaffTomorrow, on Ray Lewis' 25th birthday, characters will converge in an unfolding drama that mixes pro football, celebrity, money, politics, rap music, wild parties, street brawling and homicide. Performing in an Atlanta courtroom will be some of the city'...Tags: O.J. Simpson, Arts, Islam, Bars and Clubs, Sex
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Philly's Will Smith back in 'Men in Black 3'
It's been four years since Philadelphia native Will Smith was on the big screen, but he hasn't exactly been slacking off. In addition to producing his wife Jada Pinkett's television series "Hawthorne," he helped oversee the "Karate Kid" remake starring...Tags: Karate, Star Wars (movie), Will Smith, Music, Tommy Lee Jones
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Lil Boosie murder trial: Did his lyrics show an intent to kill?
Lil Boosie, a gangsta rapper of national renown, is facing first-degree murder charges in his hometown of Baton Rouge, La., and this week prosecutors introduced his own recordings into court. The musician's violent and threat-filled lyrics, they say, show...
Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Music, Murder, Poetry
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Serena Williams, rap star!
Serena Williams has won 13 majors and, on Friday, ousted defeated Maria Sharapova once again. In addition, she apparently has recorded a rap song as well. Several outlets are reporting the leak of a rap song featuring Williams and apparently recorded at... -
'Rack City' gets Sanford teacher in trouble
SANFORD — A Seminole County reading teacher who strayed far from Charles Dickens and Stephen Crane has been suspended for playing profanity-laced rap music to her high school class and won't be coming back next school year.
Heather Michelle New,...Tags: Stephen Crane, Music, Seminole County, Teachers, Charles Dickens
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Sanford teacher apologizes for playing rap song 'Rack City' in class
A Seminole County teacher suspended for playing lewd rap music in class apologized Friday, saying it was an accident.
Heather New, a reading teacher at Crooms Academy of Information Technology in Sanford, had intended to play a sanitized version of the...Tags: Music, Teachers, Sanford, Teaching and Learning
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Teacher apologizes for playing explicit rap song 'Rack City' in class
FloriDUHHeather Michelle New racked up a five-day suspension without pay and won't have her contract renewed for next school year after playing a profanity-laced rap song to her high school class in Sanford, reports the Orlando Sentinel. One of the songs New...Tags: Music, Orlando
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