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Rap

• July 9 -- Rapping a Pro-Israel Musician
Ben Sisario attends an unusual hip-hop show in Brooklyn featuring Israelis and Palestinians rapping against the Israeli "occupation." A Palestinian rapper who describes the Israel army as terrorists is called "blunt;" a pro-Israel rapper describes Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat as a smoker and is said to spread "incendiary nationalist imagery."

• November 17 -- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Thug
A.O. Scott reviews a documentary of Tupac Shakur and gives a posthumous makeover to the "open-hearted" and "sensitive" rapper, who died as he lived--violently--in a drive-by assault in 1996.