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Hip Hop-portunity: A Pittsburgh Film Festival Gives Hip-Hop Its Due

By Brentin Mock

Pittsburgh City Paper | November 18, 2005

Hip-hop was once about public access to the creative cultural expressions of the city, but that element has become increasingly less accessible to the public. Nowhere is that truer than in independent hip-hop documentaries and narrative films.

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