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Major Hip-Hop Icons Embrace New Movement; New Social Media Platform StreetCred.com Empowers Hip-Hop Culture
StreetCred.com, a new 'Movement' within hip-hop, was announced today with the support of several hip-hop icons, including T.I., Diddy, Snoop, Common, and T-Pain. StreetCred.com is a hip-hop centric, interactive social media network that aggregates the hip-hop culture onto a single global platform. The site has multiple new features and has already logged more than 2.5 page views from more than 100 countries around the world since its soft launch in mid July.

ModernBeats.com Announces Hip Hop Beat Contest
ModernBeats.com announces Hip Hop Beat Contest with a $1,350 total in cash prizes up for grabs.

Hip Hop Group Launches Redesign of its Popular Music Website
Archryval announced a major redesign to its popular music website archryval.com in anticipation of the upcoming album release of Southern Hostility.

'We Love Hip-Hop: a Celebration of Hip-Hop Music' Only On Music Choice in April -- Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Jay Z, Jim Jones, Rick Ross, Flo Rida, a
Music Choice, the award winning, multi-platform video and music network, announces its slate of thematic video programming for April. "We Love Hip-Hop: A Celebration of Hip-Hop Music" will premiere on Music Choice's On Demand network and its broadband music site in April with Music Choice Originals and a music video catalog that features today's hip-hop megastars. Rapper, singer, producer and actor, Snoop Dogg, the Music Choice Artist of the Month, is featured in two Originals - "Snoop Dogg: Does Starkville" and "Snoop Dogg: Naked." Jim Jones hosts "Hip Hop Style 360;" Flo Rida is featured on Fresh Crops; and Tha Corner showcases Rick Ross. In addition, a "5 Boro Tour" video playlist highlighting Jay Z and popular hip-hop artists from each ...

Hip Hop and Education -- Educating Through Music
"Hip hop is inherently political, the language is political. It uses language as a weapon -- not a weapon to violate or not a weapon to offend, but a weapon that pushes the envelope that provokes people, makes people think." - Todd Boyd, Professor University of Southern California's School of Cinema-television.

Flocabulary's Educational Hip-Hop Music Helps Teachers Connect with Today's Students
Flocabulary's growing line of music-based educational tools puts words and academic information to hip-hop music to help teachers connect with today's students. This non-traditional approach to teaching makes it easier for teens to memorize hard-to-remember information such as SAT vocabulary words, lines from Shakespeare's plays or historical facts. Flocabulary's teaching programs are available on audio CD with a supplementary workbook. Go to www.flocabulary.com and learn why Flocabulary's groundbreaking teaching tools are being used in thousands of classrooms nationwide.

SRC and BeatPhone Broadcast Exclusive Hip-Hop Music Over the Telephone
Hip-Hop "Hotline" lets fans preview new tracks with a local phone call.