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- <text id=90TT1771>
- <title>
- July 09, 1990: Rap It Up
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- July 09, 1990 Abortion's Most Wrenching Questions
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GERMANY, Page 86
- Rap It Up
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- <body>
- <p>By Emily Mitchell
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- <p> Having fled over the Wall in 1976, Nina Hagen discovered the
- brave new world of punk music. Hagen, 35, learned her craft by
- singing along to tapes of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin,
- "although I couldn't speak a word of English." She got started
- in East Berlin's jazz circuit and has since emerged as an
- international rock star. Meantime, she has made more changes
- than Madonna, festooning herself with chains and wearing metal
- bras, wild wigs and ghoulish makeup. On her latest album, Hagen
- pounds out a number titled Gorbachev Rap. After all, she
- explains, it's important to encourage Mikhail.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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