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A White Man’s Look at Race and The Hip-Hop Industry

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Other People's Property
“Other People’s Property” is a very good book that is at its best when its author acts like a DJ. But don’t get it twisted: [Jason] Tanz sees hip-hop as text more than as sonic phenomenon or, for that matter, stone groove. “Other People’s Property” is made up of nine journalistic pieces, each a mix of reportage and personal reflection about race and the industry of hip-hop. It’s freaky, equally in love with Western philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard and the classic albums from hip-hop’s golden era. In a very hip-hop effort to get his shine on, the author mashes up his prose, cutting in and out of reportage and confessional styles.

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A Look Into ‘Infamy’

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Cover of 'Infamy'
This cutting edge documentary not only unmasks the faces of seven individuals addicted to graffiti, but it exposes their thoughts, feelings, faults and fears — an avenue unrivaled by any graff film to date[…]”Graffiti is like the United Nations. There is a representative from all corners of the earth. Black, white and the many shades in between, man or woman.”

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Hip Hop 101 With KRS-One

Posted on Monday, February 27, 2006

The Hip Hop Congress on the campus of UC Irvine put on a highly successful event on Feb. 22, hosting Hip hop legend KRS-One

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Hip-hop is part of Palestine’s cultural intifada

Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006

Palestinian musicians have embraced hip-hop as a means of protest and self assertion

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Speaker, Bakari Kitwana, examines conversion of white kids to hip-hop gospel

Posted on Saturday, February 25, 2006

Bakari Kitwana, an author and expert on youth culture, hip-hip politics and activism spoke at Ohio University’s Walter Hall Thursday night, touching on racial and political issues and the effects of hip-hop culture on modern society.

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DEADLY LINKS: Ins, outs of gangsta rap

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

gangsta rap cds

Critics claim violence rooted in music genre that glorifies hatred

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E-40 - The Ambassador of the Bay

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

E-40

At one point or another, the Bay Area held it down with mob music, but since then, it’s struggled to attain the national spotlight it once enjoyed. These days, the Bay Area’s way of life known as “hyphy” is plowing through state lines with the potential to prove what audiences in Northern California have always known: quality music is all the Bay has ever produced.

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“Bridging the gap”- Hip-hop life under the microscope

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

brideing the gap

Does hip hop perpetuate black oppression, or is the music a tool for ending it?

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Hip Hop artist wanted for rap murder

Posted on Wednesday, February 15, 2006

mac minister

Bay Area hip-hop rapper Andre “Mac Minister” Dow is very well known among the hip-hop and rap community. He now is also well known by law enforcement officials. In November last year, he was indicted in connection with the murder of Kansas City rapper Anthony “Fat Tone” Watkins, 24, and his friend Jermaine “Cowboy” Akins, 21.

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