1 May, 2012
by rgonzalezr
In its first edition (1984), Rap Attack documented the origins of hip-hop and its genesis in the South Bronx. Many old-school hip-hop and electro pioneers were interviewed, including Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Spoonie Gee, Double Trouble, Warp 9, Arthur Baker, and Bobby Robinson. Rap Attack 2 (1991), followed hip-hop into its mainstream phase of stadium tours, crossover records and Adidas sponsorship, interviewing Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, The Beastie Boys and De La Soul. Rap Attack 3 closes the circle by examining rap following the fatal shootings of Tupac Shakur and the Notorious BIG, gangsta rap overload and the resultant upsurge of nostalgia for old-school hip-hop and its now legendary Djs, Mcs, graffiti artists, and others.
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26 April, 2012
by rgonzalezr
Forged in the fires of the
Bronx and
Kingston,
Jamaica,
hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation’s worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.
Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop’s forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation’s rise from the ashes of the 60′s into the new millennium. Here is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.
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27 September, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (January 9, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0465009093
In this wide-ranging, academic anthology of essays, interviews and panel discussions, 2005 American Book Award–winner Jeff Chang (Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop) presents hip-hop’s past, present and future as seen by some of its founding figures, guiding lights, journalists and scholars. From a post–civil rights era grassroots phenomenon born in the streets of the Bronx, N.Y., hip-hop has become a global cultural movement whose stylistic impact and social perspectives clearly extend beyond popular rap music. Part manifesto, part apologia, the collection takes on such topics as the aesthetics behind hip-hop photography and graffiti, offers an informative history of hip-hop dance and assesses hip-hop’s effects on literature and theater, while pursuing debates about identity, sexuality and homophobia. Especially intriguing are pieces documenting hip-hop’s sociopolitical influence in Cuba (Chang’s interview with filmmaker Eli Jacobs-Fauntauzzi) and South Africa (an essay by Capetown natives Shaheen Ariefdien, performer/anthropologist, and Nazli Abrahams, an educator). Not surprisingly, amid talk about “keepin’ it real” and multiculturalism, multiple definitions of hip-hop emerge—ideas and values that are as varied and contradictory as the book’s attempt to critically scrutinize hip-hop in context.
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13 February, 2011
by rgonzalezr
- Audio CD (February 22, 2005)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Limited Edition
- Label: Definitive Jux
Amazing new 7-track EP with production by BLOCKHEAD, AESOP, and ROB SONIC plus vocals by EL-P and CAMU. Includes an 80 page, perfect bound book with all of Aesop’s lyrics from all of his records. Deluxe! Limited Edition!!
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8 February, 2011
by rgonzalezr
Saul Williams co-wrote & starred in the film Slam, was featured in the documentaries Slam Nation and I’ll Make Me a World, and rapped to Rick Rubin-produced tracks on his hybrid album Amethyst Rock Star. Following The Seventh Octave (1998) and S/he (1999), Williams’s third print collection (this time with no CD), is described as an “epic,” and begins with a chilling epigraph from Paul Robeson on the warped combine of Western values, creativity, star power and suicide. It prefigures the set of toxic contradictions Williams attempts to negotiate, moving quickly into big-fonted oracular mode, channeling “those ships that never sailed/ the ones with their seacocks open/ that lied scuttled in their stalls/ TODAY/ i bring them back/ HUGE AND INTRANSITORY”-simultaneously invoking thwarted ambition, sexual exposure, the Middle Passage, and attempts to “lie” (dissimulate as well as collapse) through it all. Throughout the book, Williams draws on messianic postures and pronouncements that are non-starters, dragging out the most shopworn heresies and tropes: “we will wait through the degenerate course/ of your repeated history/ we will wait for the past to die.” Yet such moments are repeatedly undercut by brief, understated bouts of lyrical intimacy and self-scrutiny: “i cannot make/ your past disappear/ only rabbits, my love/ only rabbits.” It is through their juxtaposition that readers glimpse the pathos of a poet struggling with a literally unspeakable historical past, and deeply unworkable present-as well as levity in the futility of trying to dispel it all with corporate-backed, art-based bunnies.
Publisher: MTV; Original edition (September 16, 2003)
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