Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...

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(CNN) — Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at ...