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...rapping, and graffiting. These elements collectively comprised an alternative form of entertainment and self-expression for inner-city youth, while creating a burgeoning impetus for social change. At the center of this cultural maelstrom was Grandmaster Flash, né Joseph Saddler, who, along with fellow DJs Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata, formed a veritable holy trinity of hip-hop. In the 30 years since Saddler’s heydey, however, the genre’s rough edges have been whittled down to reveal a slick, commercially malleable force to be reckoned with. With his first studio album in 20 years...
...Chang writes, "most of the youthful energy that became known as hip-hop could be contained in a tiny seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American...
Students and activists from around the world gathered at Harvard this weekend in a unique effort to use various mediums of art to challenge contemporary misconceptions of the African continent and embrace the cultural richness of their “sweet mother Afrika.” The first-ever annual African youth empowerment conference, entitled “Youth and the New Pan-African Renaissance,” was hosted by the Sweet Mother Tour (SMT)—a global project of artists and activists dedicated to using pop culture to spread positive images of Africa...
...school pioneers and Native Tongues Posse founders Afrika Bambaataa turn the shiny Teutonic synthesizer lines from Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” into the electro funk-rap beauty of “Planet Rock...
...First game with an old-skool rap sound track. Thrasher: Skate and Destroy boasts Run DMC, Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa and the Sugar Hill Gang...