Steve gangster rap alive and well with many artists maintaining their ties to street gangs, this is not just east coastwest coast feud we knew of in 9s. They reflect what they see on streets, they personalize it, lisa evers with break it down. Allison. And antwan, hiphop has grown. Now some wonder if line between gangster rap, and gang afilliated with too blurred. You dont have too look too hard for gang colors or tattoos in hiphop, lil wayne makes no secret of his assessiation with bloods in atlanta, in los angeles the game, havent r b Singer Chris Brown is seen in red, all hiphop to the come ceo, said that when you are a easy target. I dont think that have is pressure on rapperring to join gangs but i think that rappers get in the game it is like jail or something, where whether you get in you have to find an association that is stronger than you as an individual. Reporter for many gangs are what they see of day in their neighborhood, said big by from brownsville, finding that rap ga
The suburbs. Wow. We are moving deeper in the fall season so every week we could be saying that, the coolest temperature of the season. Yeah, yeah. This saturday kicking it off. Nice finish to september, Beautiful Day to day with sunshine, comfortable temperatures if you like fall weather, love to take, great football weather too planning to head to the eagles game in problems there weather should not impact the game as well. A lot of sunshine. The pretty much full sunshine. Tough to find clouds in the skies this morning live look at center city, up to 55 now. Sun starting to warm things up, and they will happen rapidly over next few hours. North breeze at 8 miles an hour and upper 40s in allentown and mount pocono. The mount pocono down to the upper 30s earlier this morning. The low to mid 50s a cross south jersey and delaware. But still in the suburbs chilly. Pottstown, quakertown, mid to upper 40s at this hour. Wind direction out of the north. That wind is coming from canada bringin
Doing the things they were before. Langston hughes and others, dont forget wendelin books and all of the individuals. I say this. You can jump on and if you want to and i am making a point here. We wrote this to our sister lee matt and i might have been, we were accused of being romantic because we were sisters and brothers and kings and queens and so forth and insisted this and insisted that. But someone recently pointed out that they spoke with Young High School sisters and they said that they are not hearing any love songs. And that is shocking and im not saying its true, i hope its not. The people who call you these names cant call you my sister and how i love you. They can call your mother because there is only one way in this world and you cant allow the way you came in. [laughter] the last panel of the day from the National Black writers conference is entitled shifting identities in africa. Starts now on booktv. Jeffrey allen is here and those in transit can join us other jeffre
A show of defiance following last weeks immigrant violence. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes germanys think about Organ Donation thousands of people meet new organs but few and few are willing to donate for a controversial law change may be the onset of. Time twenty years of google having already come could be internet will look at the tech giants search for the next big idea. Im phil graham welcome to the program. Japan is being battered by its strongest typhoon for twenty five years of a version a Million People in western and Central Regions to leave their homes and move to temporary shelters typhoon gebbie made landfall in japan southwest hitting the cities of kobe osaka and kyoto with torrential rains and violent gusts well one point five million households are without power the typhoon is also causing serious disruptions to road rail and air traffic. You get the latest from but journalist michael pan who joins us from tokyo welcome michael. B. Has just made landfall talk