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MTV x New Era – Snapback & Fitted Caps Collection
Tōkyō :: Japan | 4 months ago
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January 11th, 2013 For sometime now, the new generation of kids and trendsetters has been infatuated by the styles from 80s and 90s. MTV was an institution back in its prime, standing as the voice of the youth in the cluttered mainstream media. New
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VH1 – Yo!: The Story of Yo! MTV Raps – Documentary | Video
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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June 19th, 2012 Although rap music can be heard on radio and television on a daily basis these days, back in the 80s it was almost unheard of. All of that changed when young Ted Demme convinced the executives at MTV to introduce rap music by
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Hip to be ‘square'
New York City :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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May 21, 2012 The game is old, but remixing what already exists into something fresh and exciting is the very basis of hip-hop. Tonight at 11 on VH1, Hip Hop Squares hijacks the Hollywood Squares format and gives it to hip-hop artists and
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Intrepid Blogger Determines Ice Cube's 'Good Day': January 20, 1992 [Video]
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Intrepid Blogger Determines Ice Cube's Good Day': January 20, 1992 Is it too late to give a Pulitzer to Murk Avenue's Donovan Strain? Because if figuring out the exact day on which Ice Cube had a good day (as described in his 1993 classic "It Was a
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People Love Nostalgia, So Why Doesn't MTV Go All In?
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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The retrospective, scheduled for December 4, is a half-hour-long look back that will air after a newly minted awards show honoring present-day hip-hop, and it'll air not on the maiden channel but on its slightly less music-video-hostile sister, MTV2.
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Yo! MTV Raps! To Return For One Night Only!
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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From 1988 through 1995, there was a show on MTV that literally launched the careers of some of the biggest names in rap music. Ice-T, N.W.A., A Tribe Called Quest and Public Enemy were among those who got their start on Yo! MTV Raps! and now, a new
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Opinion: Can we still trust MTV?
Hackensack :: NJ :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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The Record MTV, which used to stand for Music Television but now stands for whatever combination of youth-oriented programming the network is airing at the time, turned 30 the first of this month. There are grown people who will not remember a world
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MTV celebrates its 30th birthday but stays forever young
Jacksonville :: FL :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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There are grown people who will not remember a world without it, who will not recall Madonna and Bowie and Boy George exhorting them to demand I want my MTV, a line that Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler later put into a song about hating rock stars.
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MTV at 30: From Interrupting Kanye to Nirvana unplugged, our favorite moments
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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On Aug. 1, 1981 MTV aired its first music video and television was forever changed. Turns out that wouldn't be the last time the upstart cable network-turned-media titan would change the TV game. Below, we've gathered what we deem to be the most
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MTV celebrates 30 years of music, reality and drama
Orange :: NH :: USA | almost 2 years ago
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MTV launched the music video revolution on Aug. 1, 1981, and so we'd be remiss to let its 30th birthday pass without looking back at the past three decades of music, videos, reality TV and more. You'll find 30 memorable images in the slide show above
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