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Combining forces for a tag-team assault on wack MCs and lesser showmen, Tah Phrum Duh Bush and Coole High stage a small but energized concert, boldly going where few rappers usually go. Even the most cynical hip hop head would have been pleased by the result.

A new crop of NY\'s finest are marrying the home of hip hop\'s traditions with a bold look toward the future. Here\'s a quick playlist of names you either should know by now or need to know in 2012.

We’re back with another installment of \"10 Must See Videos by NY-area Hip Hop Artists,\" a semi-regular series where we take time to collect and deliver recently released, entertaining visual displays from hip hop artists and filmmakers in the New York City area.

Freestyle Mondays, NYC’s longest-running weekly, live band, open mic, freestyle rap series, celebrates 10 years, starting 2012 in a new location, but with the same winning formula and eager participants that continue to rank Freestyle Mondays as one of our favorite reasons why New York hip hop doesn’t suck.

In 2011, actor and director Michael Rapaport’s ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest’ made its way to movies screens and DVD. He spoke at a CMJ Film Festival screening of the documentary, providing deep insight into the film, the members of the group and the seemingly unending drama that almost derailed the entire project.

Georgetown Professor and author Michael Eric Dyson is teaching a course studying, from a sociological view, the lyrics and life story of rags-to-riches rap success story Jay-Z. While this isn't the first time a hip hop artist has become the subject of a collegiate course, the course is drawing mixed reactions.

Nicki Minaj is immortalized by toy maker Mattel, as a "Minajesty"� Barbie Doll has been created, to be auctioned off with proceeds going to benefit Project Angel Food, which provides food to those afflicted with HIV and AIDS.