ARTICLES BY DOMINIC TUNON
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 GINGA FEVER
Favela Girls Pull Off Fashion CoupYou might think that the Brazilian favelas are no fun. The houses are built from rubbish and it smells of diarrhoea and deprivation. Then there's the urban warfare between drug gangs and police death-squads, which kills ten times more kids every year than in Israel and Palestine combined. But don't be fooled. Bloody carnage and socio-economic destitution doesn't stop the locals from ...
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  THE DOWNSIDES OF COCAINE
Are Many And TerribleA few weeks ago I got a call from my dad saying my cousin had been murdered in a Colombian cartel slaying. He was found in a jeep abandoned on a highway, its engine still running, along with two other bodies. ...
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 SAY WHAAAT?
Deaf Raves Tear Rap a New EarholeAurally frustrated, some deaf hip-hop DJs in East London have started setting up their own parties. The deaf kids went mad for it, and soon deaf raves were drawing hundreds of people from all over the country. ...
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 KILL WHITEY
Undergound Jihad rapI met one of the chief radical Muslim clerics in Londonistan, Sheik Mohammed Al-Massari. He's like the Suge Knight of Muslim hate-rap. Just like the Death Row CEO, Al-Massari's always got beef with 5-0. Deported from Saudi Arabia for his radical political views, he claimed asylum in London, where he...
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 SO DEF!
Yo. The UK hip-hop scene's always been hotter than Skinnyman's kitchen knives, but sadly it's been a totally GAY-FREE ZONE...until now! Step forward QBoy! He's London's premier gay rapper and he's got something to say to all you haterz who ain't down with the down-low brothers or rappers who like gi...
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 AMERICAN HISTORY X'D
Correcting the Lies You're ToldAs Howard Zinn, Chuck D, and Zack de le Rocha have said countless times before, all that shiznit they taught you in school about Columbus and the earth being a sphere and all that other Eurocentric shit are nothing but a bunch of lies. So was most of that "math" crap (when we supposed to use that...
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 THE VICE GUIDE TO BANGLA METAL
Five Things About Four BandsBy focusing on the poverty associated with Bangladesh, seldom do we pause to consider and appreciate the rich cultural heritage of Bengal.
To the outsider it may look like a smelly bolthole of a cesspit, but actually the region has been a melting pot of diverse cultures, with generations of...
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 WHAT’S WITH ALL THE WEIRD DISEASES?
When I heard all about how SARS was a "zoonosis" virus that could be caused by eating unclean, disease-ridden exotic animals, I suddenly thought back to the news of Mad Cow, when experts had linked its most basic origins to an expensive Chinese restaurant in London that was serving illegal tiger mea...
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 BLACK-MARKET ARTISTS
10 Things You Didn't Know About the Underground EconomyWhere'd all the money go? We know it's still there somewhere, but where'd it go? Economists disagree as to exactly how much of our economy has gone underground, but they do agree on two major points: it is a fuck of a lot, and it's never been more. Back in the 70s only 3-5 percent of the economy was...
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 KILL THE FOXES
Animal Rights Ain't Street Innit?British animal rights groups and rich people are always in a tizzy about country foxes, but it's their tough urban cousins, the city foxes, that are actually causing all the fuss. Hardened by a life where food is found by going through supermarket rubbish bins and domestic waste units, the urban fox...
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