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  Jay-Z, Beyoncé and the art of putting parenthood to music

  10 Jan 2012:

  Touching or toe-curling? As Jay-Z releases an emotional rap about his newborn daughter, Laura Barton takes a look at the songwriters who have been overcome by parenthood

• The Met police are stigmatising hip-hop with the 696 form

  10 Jan 2012: Lowkey: The 696 risk assessment form seems to rely on the assumption certain demographics and genres are more prone to violence

• Is Rihanna's crotch-grabbing really so gross?

  10 Jan 2012:

  Nell Frizzell: So what if the singer simulates masturbation in her new video, You Da One? The boys in pop have been doing this for years

• Police accused of discriminating against urban music scene

  8 Jan 2012: Industry figures claim risk assessment is based on ethnicity and complain that police can cancel gigs at short notice

• Azealia Banks and the charge of the women MCs

  5 Jan 2012:

  Watch out Nicki Minaj, there's a host of feisty, eccentric female rappers on your trail – and not all of them are here to pay their respects, discovers Paul Lester

• Why blogging strikes a chord on Tumblr

  5 Jan 2012:

  Tom Ewing: It's heartening that with Tumblr a strain of music blogging has thrived - where sharing music isn't as important as sharing stories

• Promoter 'kidnapped' after Nas no-show

  5 Jan 2012: Patrick Allocco claims he was kidnapped and held for ransom after Nas failed to appear at a New Year's Eve concert in Angola

• Mike Skinner announces Streets memoir

  4 Jan 2012: The Story of the Streets to be published in March and will include, er, old snaps of Skinner as a schoolboy

• New music: Scissor Sisters – Shady Love ft Krystal Pepsy

  3 Jan 2012:

  Michael Cragg: Featuring Azealia Banks on vocal duties, Scissor Sisters have ditched their trademark sound to thrilling effect

• Music Weekly podcast: tips for 2012

  Audio (25min 33sec), 30 Dec 2011:

  The Guardian's music team, headed by Alexis Petridis, offer their tips on what to look out for in the year ahead

• The arts in 2012: pop

  29 Dec 2011:

  Alexis Petridis picks his highlights of the year ahead

• The best music videos of 2011 from the Guardian

  29 Dec 2011:

  From vintage Amy Winehouse performances to exclusive new songs from Ray Davies, here's the best of the year's videos from Guardian Music

• Rapper Heavy D died from pulmonary embolism caused by DVT

  29 Dec 2011:

  Coroners say the hip-hop star was killed by a blood clot that probably formed during a flight from London to LA

• Somali hip-hop band fighting al-Shabaab for hearts and minds

  26 Dec 2011: Waayaha Cusub remain defiant despite bearing the scars of the Islamist group, whose reach has extended to Nairobi

• The best mixtapes of 2011, plus club names of the year

  24 Dec 2011:

  Forget albums old man, the new thing is giving away a collection of tracks digitally for free. It's completely different, honest!

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