Daara J: Facts

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rapper T.I. is starring in T.I.'s Road To Redemption, an upcoming reality television show?
Los Angeles-based hip hop group Black Eyed Peas have released two number one albums in both Australia and Switzerland, but have yet to achieve the same on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100?
Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?
Flocabulary is an educational New York City-based project that uses hip hop music to teach SAT-level vocabulary?
Paul Kodish, best known as the current drummer for drum and bass band Pendulum, performed in 1986 with Brooklyn hip hop act Whodini?
rhymed prose has been popular in various cultures, ranging from medieval Arabic maqamat to modern rap?
former Motown Records president Skip Miller began his career as a stock clerk and has been credited with helping to develop the rap genre?
the 1999 hit song "Tomber la chemise" ("Take Off Your Shirt") was part of a sudden popularity trend by rappers of North African immigrant origins in France?

Senegalese hip hop group Positive Black Soul's name abbreviation, PBS, is a play on that of the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais, PDS?

Canadian actor Kevin Durand, who plays antagonist Martin Keamy in the fourth season of the television show Lost, is a former rapper and stand-up comic?
labor leader Victor Kamber created playing cards with public figures in 1968 and the "Rappin' Ronnie" music video depicting a rapping Ronald Reagan in 1984?
Electric Picnic 2010 is expected to feature Leftfield, Roxy Music, Public Image Ltd. and a rap duo who perform wearing plastic bags to cover their heads?
New York City rapper Coke La Rock is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop?
members of the Senegalese rap group Daara J were hired by campaigners in the Senegalese election of 2000 to edit their speeches?

cellist Felix Wurman founded the Church of Beethoven, described by NPR as "a church for people who don't go to church," in an abandoned gas station off Route 66 in New Mexico?
Jake Warga was an assistant cameraman on Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway, The Prophecy 3: The Ascent and Mimic 2 before becoming a story contributor for National Public Radio?