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Branford composer Kenneth Hampton scores with SyFy's 'Island'
New Haven Register
... a like-sounding project will quietly debut on Syfy network nationally that bears the musical score of a Branford composer. Kenneth Hampton, a former hip-hop artist who now scores films from the studio in his Branford basement, composed the score ...

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Hip-hop gets good rap in Alberta Theatre Projects' musical Ash Rizin
Calgary Herald
What do you think about when you think about hip-hop? Gangbangers? Violence? Thug lives? Worse misogynists than the Taliban? How about words? That's what Patrick McDonald, the director of Ash Rizin, the first hip-hop musical produced by Alberta Theatre ...

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Conservatives' secret language and Obama's hip-hop omission (read-this roundup)
Washington Post (blog)
Elsewhere, our colleague Chris Richards finds a gaping hole in the campaign-song playlist that President Obama's campaign posted. Apparently, there's soul and rock and country... but no hip-hop. Richards reports that the president didn't make the picks ...

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