Word: hiphop
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...blockmates have been waiting for arrives: “Diamonds” and “Party and Bullshit” represent the other half of Ratatat’s talent, namely, the remixing of ass-to-crotch grinding (his/her crotch grinding on your ass, that is to say) hiphop tracks...
Although Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop” is certainly a crowd pleaser, it may not capture hip-hop’s original spirit of activism, according to the Harvard’s Hiphop Archive founder and Executive Director, Marcyliena Morgan. “You get [radio stations saying] ‘let’s play these songs about someone’s butt,’” said Morgan, a professor of African and African American Studies. To exchange ideas and promote dialogue surrounding issues of global hip-hop, the Hiphop Archive...
Between working on a book about underground rap battles in Los Angeles, founding the Hiphop Archive, and playing out her own East Coast/West Coast rivalry, Stanford professor Marcyliena Morgan may just be too legit to quit. After ditching Harvard for California when then-President Lawrence H. Summers denied her tenure, Professor Morgan is due back in Cambridge this January as a tenured professor. FM chatted with Morgan by phone about Ebonics, sexual innuendo, and the future of Hiphop. 1.Fifteen Minutes: You’ve been called the “hip-hop” professor. Harvard isn?...
...Department of African and African American Studies said yesterday that an ad hoc committee and Interim University President Derek C. Bok approved the case about a week ago and a formal job offer was extended to Morgan, currently the executive director of Stanford University’s Hiphop Archive. It is not known whether Morgan has accepted the offer, and she could not be reached for comment. “I am overjoyed,” Professor of Anthropology and of Af-Am Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82 said of Morgan’s possible arrival...
...28th till 9th Avenue, wrapped around 9th, and then went down 29th all the way to that other corner,” he recalls.Surviving two days of grueling cuts, Oladehin freestyled and performed a solo of his signature popping moves—the sequential tensing of muscles to a hiphop beat—to beat out nearly 3,000 talented hiphop, lyrical, and ballroom dancers and become one of the 50 individuals to advance to the finals.While Oladehin was ultimately cut in the second round of the finals, he notes that he met a lot of strong dancers that were...