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The Atlanta rapper previewed his upcoming biopic and some music from his brand new album inspired by it. Click inside to check it out!

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Sue Kwon captured hip-hop icons during the genre's 1990s renaissance, photographing artists like Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Sue Kwon captured hip-hop icons during the genre's 1990s renaissance, photographing artists like Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Hip-hop repeatedly taught a community, then a nation, then the world, how to dream.

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“What the mainstream media at large now calls "hip hop" is a far cry from the creative culture that emerged following the gang truce between the warring factions of the South Bronx,” says Vikki Tobak, curator of ‘CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop’, a photography exhibition that runs in Abu Dhabi until May 31. The show run by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi features more than 150 images by over 60 photographers. The images are displayed alongside original cont...

Are shows such as this one a dream given the amount of pre-existing public interest? Absolutely, whenever there’s a unifying force like hip-hop culture that speaks to a universal audience, it’s a dream come true. But it also comes with a big responsibility to tell the right story and celebrate the complexity of the culture. Visitors see the story unfold from a voice of a community to a voice for the world. As a journalist what stories do you hope visitors take away from the exhibition? I wa...