Tuesday, May 23, 2006
About Me
Tara Henley is a freelance journalist in Toronto, Canada who specializes in hip-hop music, culture and style. During the past five years, she has published more than 350 articles in Canadaâs largest urban weekly, The Georgia Straight. Henley has also published with Vancouver Magazine, The Globe and Mail, DOSE, POUND Magazine, and The Guardian (U.K.). In 2005, she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, and spent much of the year traveling and doing research for her upcoming book, Global Beat: The Hip-Hop Diaries. Tara does a weekly hip-hop column at XXLmag.com called Northen Touch. She also has a regular column with Pound Magazine.
Previous Posts
- New column...
- You know my steez
- The week in review
- Be easy
- New XXL Column
- More on hipsters
- Press Clips
- Glum girl
- Monday
- MySpace
Recent Published Articles
MUSIC


- New Game
- Saigon
- 50 Cent
- Black Eyed Peas
- K'naan Reps African Hip-Hop
- Lloyd Banks Leaves the Thug Life Behind
- Williams Dissects Hip-Hop In Search Of Its Heart
- Roots Slowly Rising
- Belligerent Busta Goes Into the Early Hours
MOVIES
STYLE
- Hipstersâ Secondhand Ironies Start to Grate
- BBC Blings Out Inner Wealth
- Glamour of Bollywood and Main
- New Gangster Chic Gets Guys Mobbed Out
- Denimâs Big-Booty Bonanza
- Murses Make the Macho Man?
- Sneaker Freaks Find a Livestock Footwear Fix
POLITICS
- Hip-Hop Finds Its Political Beat
- Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Global Summit in Venezuela
- Hurricane Kanye Hits America
BOOKS
XXL COLUMN: NORTHERN TOUCH
- Freak in the street and a lady in the bed
- Method Man on an anti-press junket
- Jesus Raps
- Vegas hip-hop
- Hate it or love it?
- More MySpace Freaks
- The trouble with backpack rap
- Good morning, Iraq
- Mind playing tricks
- The week in review
- Drunk In Jerusalem
- Rappers vs. Internet Thugs
- Parents just don't understand
- Hip-hop doesn't care about George Bush?
- Word to your Mom
- The week in review
- Maestro Fresh Wes on hip-hop up top
- Women don't like music nerds
- Broke: the disappearing generation gap
- The Queen of Joburg
- Be healthy
- Trinity International Hip-Hop Fest
- K'naan wins Juno
- Male groupies: The real reason rappers need security
- A woman's real place in hip-hop
- Africa raps
- Real talk
- Why the South is on top
- Ms. New Booty
- Good girls gotta get down with the gangstas
- Where I'm from
Blog World
- Pop Licks
- Danyel Smith
- Jeff Chang
- Hip-Hop Blogs
- Jay Smooth
- Sasha Frere Jones
- Hattie Collins
- Different Kitchen
- So Many Shrimp
- D-Nice
- Nelson George
- Wes Jackson
- Scott Poulson-Bryant
- Nastack
- Jimi Izrael
- Media Chin-Check
- Pro Hip-Hop
- Bol
- Houston So Real
- Straight Bangin'
- Holla at a Scholar
- Status Ain't Hood
- Dirty South Perspective
- Ya Heard?
- Humanity Critic
- Laina Dawes
- Bomani Jones
- Hip-Hop Ruckus
- Nah Right
- Oh Word
- Cocaine Blunts & Hip-Hop Tapes
- Harambe Africa
- Rap News
- Lynne d Johnson
- The Couch Sessions
- Fresh
- Cowboyz 'n' Poodles
- Henry Adaso
- Hip-Hop Game
- MTV News
- Hip-Hop DX
- All Hip-Hop
- XXL

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