By Dan Leroy
A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end lists should be subtitled "Ten More Albums You've Never Heard of and Will Never, Ever Hear," plenty.
Technology has made the world smaller, and in response, we've found smaller and smaller worlds to
​Here's another new surefire dancefloor jam from Philly MC and Spank Rock buddy Amanda Blank. "Make It Take it" is the latest single off Blank's upcoming record I Love You. The tune laces Blank's intrepid bravado with cool, atmospheric interludes. So while the straight-talkin' lyricist may threaten to make a girl "take it back," she comes off as having more brains than bark, flipping and flexing her verbal muscles until halfway through the song, when she retreats into a refrain of cool e