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People.com: Alicia Keys Clarifies Her Rapper Conspiracy Remarks

Alicia Keys is clearing the air on her statements that gangster rap was a government "ploy to convince black people to kill each other" and that the government and media were responsible for the drama between slain rappers Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G.

Time.com: LA Times Apologizes for Rapper Flub

The Los Angeles Times has apologized for an article on the 1994 assault on rapper Tupac Shakur that was based on apparently phony documents

Time.com: How Phat Conquered Palestine

Young Arabs are turning to hip-hop to express their feelings about conflicts in the Middle East

Biography: Ice Cube

"It's boyz in the hood, it's toys in the hood Y'all wanna know why there's noise in the hood Cause there's drugs in the hood, thugs in the hood Nigga killed a Crip and a Blood in the hood" - Ice Cube, "Why we thugs"

Los Angeles: City overview

A vast, decentralized urban sprawl, Los Angeles challenges conceptions of what a city should be. It's the ultimate monument to America's love affair with the automobile, where even the food is fast -- four wheels good, two legs bad. These days of course the freeway ain't so free. The 16-lane snarl-up is an occupational hazard for L.A. commuters who reputedly total up 99 million miles a day between them. Autopia has become autogeddon, complete with a sub-culture of car chases, car-jackings and drive-by shootings. Built as far west as geography would allow and hemmed in only by the Pacific, LA is a crazy town where manifest destiny has been given free reign, where anyone can turn up and claim to be someone -- if their agent is any good. It's a city of angels and demons, where a thin sheen of plastic surgery perfection barely conceals a seedy underworld of hustlers, dealers and movers on the make. That side of the city has long fascinated crime writers from Raymond Chandler to James Ellroy and, more recently

Artists see jazz's future going global

The leader of one band taking part in the 48th Monterey Jazz Festival says his collection of rock stars sets out to create improvised "chaos" on stage -- with the possibility of a "train wreck."

EW review: '90s set? Eh, 'Whatever'

Last year, in this very section, I griped that in the face of rampant '80s nostalgia, I was prepared to prematurely revisit the decade that followed -- anything to ward off those inane old Poison videos that had returned to haunt us.

Hip-hop violinist infects Billboard charts

Violinist Miri Ben-Ari studied Beethoven and Bach as a child, but her passion followed the rhymes of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac.

Rap mogul 'Suge' Knight out of jail, back at work

Rap music mogul Marion "Suge" Knight went back to work Friday after spending 10 months in prison for his second parole violation in two years.

Fortune: January The FORTUNE Business Calendar "Everything you need to know about what's going on, and a whole lot you don't."

For more information on these events, see fortune.com/calendar.

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