Hua Hsu edits the hip-hop section of URB Magazine and writes about music, culture and politics for Slate, the Village Voice, The Wire and various other magazines and weeklies. Hsu hails from California's Bay Area but he currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he is seeking a PhD in the History of American Civilization at Harvard University.
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