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Hater in the House, Part 2

My problem with the New York Times article on the hip hop scene in China (discussed here), is that there's no reason for that article now. There is no sudden love of the music (despite hiphop.cn site views) or anything in 2009 that's popping off that... ...full story at Modern Lei Feng

from Modern Lei Feng on Fri, Feb 06 2009

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