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Before the screening, Hurt told his audience “whether you love hip-hop or hate hip-hop, I think this film will get everyone talking...
Last Thursday, while most students were at Stein Clubs and Senior Bar, the true hip-hop fans filled Science Center D to see and discuss Byron P. Hurt’s documentary “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which analyzes manhood, sexism, homophobia and violence in hip-hop...
Students watched Hurt on-screen in his evolution into an activist whose post-college soul searching led him to challenge hip-hop artists like Mos Def, Fat Joe, and Busta Rhymes to contemplate images of manhood in their music...
...possible to love the music without embracing the unconstructive images that it undoubtedly creates? The answer is a resounding yes; it just takes some perspective. Sure, some say hip-hop demeans women, bashes gays, and perpetuates negative black stereotypes. But it’s not real life, and most people realize this. Besides, we do have a way to make the stuff we don’t like go away. In the same way a frustrated Congress has the power to alter an unjust war by adjusting the President’s funds, we as consumers can make hip-hop...
...course, I’m not equating the state of hip-hop with the state of Iraq. I realize that our country has bigger fish to fry, and I want my television news to address the stuff that matters. The majority of the people here aren’t too passionate against the music, and those that are can fight the powers that be. In the meantime, if you don’t like it, do what dead prez says: Turn off the radio...