Word: hip-hop
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...realize that hip-hop is disrespectful to women, and we need to do something about it,” said Margaret C. Anadu ’03, a member of the group...
West’s lecture on Wednesday focused mostly on the Sept. 11 attacks, commenting that hip-hop music is also a music “rooted in struggle...
...ARCO Forum lecture on Oct. 10, Fletcher University Professor Cornel West ’74, arguably one of the most electrifying figures in academia, illuminated the connections between recent events and hip-hop culture. As one of the most influential forms of black art, hip-hop can be surprisingly relevant to the sentiments of many Americans in light of current events. “A blues people [African-Americans] can teach Americans now that everybody has the blues,” said West, who argued that America is now experiencing what it feels like to be displaced...
...that African-Americans already have embedded in their conciousness? African-Americans have been so fascinated and acquainted with death in all of its forms, “physical, social, spiritual and civic,” and West’s lecture, which was originally supposed to feature his new hip-hop album Sketches of My Culture, used excerpts from the album in an attempt to answer those questions...
...surprisingly, the house was full, nearly beyond capacity. The eager audience fell quiet as West began to unfold his elusive definition of hip-hop, enthralling the audience with his powerful and moving dialectic and, as the hip-hop heads say, dropping science on the folks present. He is known for his signature style of speech, which creates a hospitable and communal atmosphere. In listening, we were brothers and sisters, regardless of race, nationality, political affiliation, religion or any social construct. The lecture was refreshing in that it was not, by any measure, didactic. At the same time, West...