Word: hip-hop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Message" Grandmaster Flash Showed that hip-hop could be a commercially viable social critique...
...Believe the Hype" Public Enemy Any number of PE tracks could be counted as the most important, but my favorite is this one because it's a stunning preemptive strike on the inevitable media backlash against the band and hip-hop in general...
TIME: A major museum exploration of hip-hop acknowledges its rightful place in the annals of American popular culture. But doesn't putting something in a museum also imply that it's dead...
...dead. It implies that it is important, crucial, an important part of the human journey. The art of Basquiat is not dead, although he has been dead for 13 years. The art of Bearden, Lawrence and others is full of life because art is about life, not death. And hip-hop is urban folk art, period. And that urban folk art is about the lives of a very unique group of people, of how they made something out of nothing, and how that nothing has come to define an entire era in many ways, be it our language, our fashion...
...think the fact that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (the originators of this exhibition) and now the Brooklyn Museum of Art have taken on "Hip-Hop Nation" is a mainstream institutional recognition that hip-hop is the most important youth culture on the planet, bar none. And that has been the case for some time...