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'The Rap Map' Plots Hip-Hop Origins With Google

by Matthew Zuras on August 20, 2010 at 01:47 PM

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Hip hop historians will be delighted by The Rap Map, an interactive Google Map that plots the geographic origins of rap lyrics -- from NYC and Atlanta to Chicago and LA. From Cam'ron, 'Bout It Bout It,' referencing East Harlem's Taft housing projects: "Then if you walking through Foster and Taft / Flossing that cash then gangstas put the torch to your ass."

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