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...DeGraw, I have no idea who you are, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt). As for Wu-Tang, it’s not just that they’re artists with a powerful legacy of cultural and artistic relevance—as hip-hop??s uber-group (along with perhaps the Roots, for which Scott Storch played keyboard), they are the spring from which countless fountains of Five-Percenter slang-throwing rappers and chess-playing b-boys flow, not to mention the beginning of my own interest in hip-hop.I spent...
...such as Sugarhill Gang, Run-D.M.C., 2Pac, and DMX have replaced Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan as the new prophets of black anger and frustration, the definers of racial identity, and the proponents for social and political change.Reeves provides a systematic chronicle that takes the reader from hip-hop??s origins its current manifestations. He charts how DJs’ isolation of the breakbeat at huge New York block parties in the late 1970s evolved into the musical form that burst into popular consciousness with the Sugarhill Gang and Run-D.M.C. He analyzes how the violence...
...Dylan isn’t really black? And what of the claim that a black student who attends a Radiohead concert is betraying his race? While people may not be making these claims openly, the existence of these positions is well understood within the community. Some of hip-hop??s brightest stars, however, fail to even acknowledge the problem created by this kind of cultural isolationism and the musical inbreeding that it engenders. In a December 2007 Spin Magazine interview in which he discussed race and music, Kanye West said, “I play to the stereotypes...
...year when hip hop artists are applying their music to political speeches, the Black Students Association (BSA) in conjunction with the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted a panel last night to discuss hip hop??s political and cultural effect on the current generation. “Hip hop is important because of its influence; in that way, it has political power,” said co-founder of Roc-A-Fella Records Damon Dash. “There’s an awareness that can be brought from hip hop.” Last night?...
...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’t exactly the heart of hip-hop. Why study hip-hop here? Marcyliena Morgan: What happens with hip-hop is that someone will think about it from their own personal involvement instead of as a topic of study with many different disciplinary areas...