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Blue Scholars are putting Seattle on the hip-hop map

By Ben Salmon / The Bulletin
December 7, 2007

Perhaps more than any other kind of American music, hip-hop is defined by regionalism.

Hip-hop started, of course, in the 1970s in New York City, where a long line of stars — Afrika Bambataa, Eric B. & Rakim, Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z to name but a few — built the genre....

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