What rapper is capable and willing to represent the righteous evolution that so many drug dealers, and those banging want to see? What Hip-Hop artist is going to have the courage to decide that while coke rap may be a subgenre that has artistic qualities and moves some units that what our people really need is not only an artist who tells stories and makes shout outs, but a leader who uses art, to build the community?

This week we worry a bit over the weight that Kenya’s constitutional referendum is having on the Nairobi Stock Exchange.

To me the talk about Hip-Hop artists making ‘dance music’ is about a search for greater sound creativity as much as business.

This week we worry a bit over a Cote d’ Ivoire (Ivory Coast) which continues to wrestle with national identity while its dependency on diminishing cocoa production continues. Despite a eurozone slowdown we explain why Egypt’s tourism sector will continue to thrive (it has a secret weapon)

Your expressed view I believe is indicative of what is both very right and very wrong with Black-Jewish relations today.

The masses are fiending for ‘Goose Bump’ Music.

Can anyone openly state that America’s relationship with Turkey matters more than its relationship with Israel without being labeled, ‘Anti-Semitic’?

With all due respect to the conspiracy theorists and groupies on one hand, and the established Hip-Hop and mainstream media on the other – in 2010, anyone’s analysis or critique of Jay-Z’s career has little credibility with me if it does not factor in the role that John Meneilly – his business manager and adviser has played in it. It is actually a supreme compliment to Jay-Z and John Meneilly and a discredit to the journalism profession that the most talked about celebrity in the history of the Hip-Hop culture and industry has the least talked about business manager.

(Cedricmuhammad.com) This week’s issue edition of the Africa PreBrief economic newsletter looks at South Africa’s publicly traded MTN Group; the business monopolies of Tunisia and Cameroon; the continued political stuttered steps of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai; and our suspicions of the excitement over ‘economic growth’ as measured in West Africa.
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Keeping those 5 ways in which we all learn in mind and are taught, I believe that while many others may have more overtly conscious or political content than Jay-Z none express it lyrically in more diverse, articulate, subtle, or penetrating ways.