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- ↑ Brown, Timothy “‘Keeping it Real’ in a Different ‘Hood: (African)-Americanization and Hip Hop in Germany,” in Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle eds., The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Culture (London: Pluto, 2006), 137-150.
- ↑ NYTimes - The Saturday Profile; A Bold New View of Turkish-German Youth
