RADIO BROADCAST: The end of a hip-hop era

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National Public Radio, Weekend Edition, September 19, 2010

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Following the demise of Brooklyn’s Beat Street Records, the iconic — and even better known — Fat Beats has closed its last retail shops in Manhattan and Los Angeles. Fat Beats specialized in vinyl records and catered to influential DJs. Its fate symbolizes a cultural loss, as well as a commercial one for hip-hop. The beats and scratches struggle to live on, through a new generation of digitally oriented DJs.

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