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Love the beats or hate them, there's no music more money-conscious than hip-hop. But between the rhymes, rap stars actually have some legitimate financial advice, say the experts. These tips, gleaned from hip-hop lyrics and interviews with rap moguls, can add Benjamins to your bank account.

? Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star and Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of the ground-breaking hip-hop musical, "In the Heights," will kick off Center's "American Songbook" concert series http://www.americansongbook.or/index.php/as-2012-lin-manuel-miranda January 11. Miranda and friends will perform songs from his work in progress, "The Hamilton Mixtape," a hip-hop song cycle about the life and death of Alexander ...

Kanye West's sixth studio album will be called "Yeezus." Really.

Hip-hop music grow from the streets of Harlem and the Bronx into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Dan Charnas chronicles how hip-hop producers and entrepreneurs changed the music industry and pop culture in The Big Payback.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Chicago rapper Chief Keef has been inescapable lately. Since Kanye West released a remix of the 16-year-old MC?s recent hit, ?I Don?t Like,? it appears that everyone is trying to get a hold of Keef. Even Cash Money Records co-founder Bryan ?Birdman? Williams (who recently ranked fourth in Forbes? shortlist of hip-hop?s wealthiest entrepreneurs) said ...

An album of psychedelic and folk-tinged pop songs jointly created by the celebrity French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and the cult US musician Beck goes on sale here Monday.Tracks including the duet "Heaven Can Wait" are marked by zany English lyrics and the surreal sound effects characteristic of Beck, who produced and wrote most of the songs.Gainsbourg, 38, is the daughter of the bad-boy sixties pop icon Serge Gainsbourg and the British actress Jane Birkin.