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• The event was attended by several top music industry executives, artists, songwriters, and publishers including Bryan-Michael Cox, Dixson, Papiyerr, Dontae Winslow, and Kenyon Dixon, among others.
• Jack Harlow was this year's top honoree for the third consecutive year, taking home both Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year with his smash hit "First Class".
• "We are honored to celebrate our songwriters and publishers across multiple genres," shared Sam Kling, Chief Creative Officer, SESAC Performing Rights.
• SESAC Performing Rights is a division of SESAC Music Group , a global multi-line music company.

• I didn’t grow up surrounded by books, and I spent many more hours in childhood dissecting hip-hop and shooting hoops than doing schoolwork.
• It was my first love, and its beats and rhymes schooled me in things closer to home.
• Hip-hop turns 50 this summer, and throughout its history, Latinos’ experiences have been important threads in this music’s cries for justice.

‘Latins goin’ platinum’

• Their body language flipped the prevailing narrative about our battered neighborhoods, turning them into places of pride rather than shame.
• Latinos beyond the U.S. borderlands were also very much part of hip-hop’s history.
• While there is no doubt that its inventors were Black Americans, Latinos added new colors to the prevailing palette of hip-hop.
• When it came to emceeing, rap in Latino circles started experimenting with Spanish words and slang by the 1980s.

La nueva religíon

• One of the most-streamed artists in the world today, the Puerto Rican hitmaker Bad Bunny, is representative of this new style.
• He named his first major tour “La Nueva Religíon,” a fitting name for the eccentric combinations of spirituality, sexuality, dance and pan-Latin motifs in his music.
• He’s not alone: Many of today’s rappers are sampling some of the more righteous trends in the history of hip-hop.
• She wields her words like incantations to summon Mapuche ancestors and defend the dignity of Indigenous lives throughout the Americas.

Romp and grace

• For my brother and his breaking crew, hip-hop was a lesson in grace: how the body can find the still point in the midst of spins, leaps and flying arms and legs.
• For me, always drawn by the rapping, it was also a lesson in grace: the emcee’s adroit arrangement of syllables and syntax, the way they sculpted their bars, making language bounce, dance and romp.

• 's debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released for the first time ever as a standalone CD with extensive liner notes by the original producer Mitch Easter (Let's Active).
• 's Chronic Town was an anomaly a record that didn't quite fit into the constraints of what was played on the radio.
• "One might fancifully say that Chronic Town was the sound of an expedition, ready for anything, setting forth," says Easter fondly about the EP.
• sound, Chronic Town is the sound of a restless band, chock full of ideas, operating on a post-collegiate budget.

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