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They're hip-hop artists who weave public-health messages into their rhymes: From left: Sister Fa, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Ali A.K.A. Mind perform at the Skoll World Forum 2023. During this rap, McDaniels called out: "I'm not afraid of the dark anymore/because I am the light./I'll be there at the start of the war/Because I am the fight."

Hip-hop turns 50: Here's a part of its history that doesn't always make headlines

For decades, the genre has had a stealth mission: promoting public health. It started with Doug E. Fresh's "Stroke Ain't No Joke."

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  • Ari Daniel
Kidd Creole, the rapper whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, is arraigned in New York on Aug. 3, 2017, after he was arrested on a murder charge.

The rapper Kidd Creole is sentenced to 16 years over a fatal stabbing

Rapper Kidd Creole, who was a founding member of Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years in prison for stabbing a homeless man to death on a New York City street.

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  • The Associated Press