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LOS ANGELES, April 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- S&H Public Relations is having a hard time finding artists who aren't fixated on themes of sex and over-the-top materialism. Last month, the agency launched a campaign to find the next great female rapper.

NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and Walmart will convene the national Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment entitled "Get Your Money Right" in Houston.

A POSTGRADUATE student who uses his love of hip-hop to make science easier to understand has been commissioned by NASA to write a rap. Jonathan Chase was asked to come up with the "Astrobiology Rap" for the latest edition of NASA's Astrobiology Magazine.

By D.S. Crafts For the Journal Just what dance craze would attract a fashionable European circa 1700? A sexily sultry saltarello? Perhaps a craven ciaccona might raise some disapproving eyebrows.