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...screen. The video begins in silence, with a shot of a classic black-and-white notebook labeled “Nas Rhymes” opening up like a fairytale book. Scribbled on the ruled paper inside is the declaration, “This is the story of hip-hop??s greatest poet...” Following this humble statement, a mysterious hand inserts a cassette tape into a car stereo, and the music begins. Nostalgia remains the dominant theme throughout the video. “Surviving the Times” presents a scrapbook-style montage of images...
...Golden Age of hip-hop: Roughly 1986-1994. Rapid creative innovation spurred hip-hop??s rise to mainstream success. Signature artists: Run-DMC, Public Enemy, the Beastie Boys, and De La Soul...
...fits perfectly with our goal as musicians. He is an artist before he is a DJ,” Elrick says. With Shiftee in tow, Awkward Landing mixes the boom-bap sound of hip-hop??s golden era with “some shit from Jupiter...
...years, they’ve told me that I should make it my personal mission to improve the image of black men in this country. The NBA openly embraces this assumption. Realizing that large, black men covered in tattoos and wearing “hip-hop?? attire only serve to remind their fan-base of the negative things associated with that group (and thus the NBA), the organization implemented a business-attire dress code for all public appearances. On our own campus, the Black Men’s Forum (BMF) is similarly aware of image...
...hearing rappers talk negatively about women, about their babies’ mothers and sex,” he writes, “there’s been a real change in the patterns of teen pregnancy. Teen pregnancy in the black community is down, and I believe hip-hop??made girls smarter about premarital...