On TV: Film is tough viewing for hip-hop heads and foes (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

To love hip-hop means you have to take a stand for it when it gets attacked, and that`s been harder and harder to do in recent years.

Trouble Downtown: Hip retailer, venerable club close (BizJournals)

Downtown Albuquerque`s business community took two major blows this week. Retailer Ruby Shoesday is leaving Downtown for a Menaul Boulevard location and the Albuquerque Petroleum Club went out of business.

Talib Kweli, Madlib team up for a hip-hop revolution (The Mac Weekly)

A new year is about new beginnings. Hopefully, Madlib and Talib Kweli`s collaboration will liberate hip-hop from the shackles of monotony.

Hip-hop`s mid-life crisis (The Mac Weekly)

The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented drought of quality hip-hop across all styles.

New hip system wins nod from FDA experts (CNN Money)

FDA advisors gave their nod to a new hip resurfacing system from the British company Corin, placing it one step closer to regulatory approval.

A white man`s look at race and the hip-hop industry (San Francisco Chronicle)

Other People`s Property A Shadow History of Hip Hop in White America By Jason Tanz BLOOMSBURY; 254 PAGES; $24.95 The title of Jason Tanz`s book about white America`s use of hip-hop culture, "Other...

Sarnoff: Old industrial sites get hip (Houston Chronicle)

In recent years, the Washington corridor has been transforming from a scrappy industrial area to one with hip restaurants, lofts and shops.

Singapore lawmakers show off hip-hop dance moves in street parade (Arizona Daily Star)

SINGAPORE — Clad in military-style pants, bright T-shirts and dangling chains, 12 Singapore lawmakers grooved to hip-hop music in the city-state`s largest annual street parade Saturday, part of the ruling party`s efforts to ditch its authoritarian and conservative image.