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Vibe: the Hip-Hop Years

Angus Batey, The Times, 23 October 2003

For more than 20 years, hip-hop culture has shaped the face of popular music, fashion, even political debate. And for the past decade, Vibe magazine has been its chronicler, cataloguing the musicians and the moguls, the guns and the gangsters, the DJs and the deaths. Here, we present the hip-hop portfolio: portraits of a cultural revolution in the making 

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