Friday, May 11, 2007
The Hip Hop Project (trailer)
Already covered by most of the more on-point hip hop bloggers, this Bruce Willis/Queen Latifah executive-produced documentary opens nationwide today. Here's the trailer:
Support this movie and show that hip hop is about more than the guns, n-ggaz, bling 'n' b-tches themes that are dominating this tired media "debate" about hip hop currently.
Online: Film Website | Studio Website | MySpace
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Support this movie and show that hip hop is about more than the guns, n-ggaz, bling 'n' b-tches themes that are dominating this tired media "debate" about hip hop currently.
Online: Film Website | Studio Website | MySpace
Labels: Bruce Willis, Don Imus, Queen Latifah, The Hip Hop Project
Friday, April 27, 2007
New 50 Cent - "Fully Loaded Clip"
"While Jay & Beyonce were hmm, hmm kissing, I was cooking 1000 grams in the kitchen..." - LOL. Post-Imus controversy with hip hop or not, 50 don't give fidduck! He's the same as he ever was:
50 Cent - "Fully Loaded Clip"
(zshare stream/download mp3 link via Young Global, MUCH props)
Online: Website | MySpace
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Bashing Hip Hop Post-Imus: the other side...
Image courtesy: NYT
Cos its starting to get a little crazy out there....
Kelefa Sanneh:
"[T]he anti-hip-hop fervor of the last few weeks has been extraordinary, if not quite unprecedented. Somehow Don Imus’s ill-considered characterization of the Rutgers women’s basketball team — “some nappy-headed hos” — led not only to his firing but also to a discussion of the crude language some rappers use.(click here for more from The New York Times)
Unlike previous hip-hop controversies [though], this one doesn’t have a villain, or even a villainous song.* The current state of hip-hop seems almost irrelevant to the current discussion."
Jim Farber:
"The way the protectors of the public good currently carry on about their favorite bogeyman - hip hop - you'd think popular music just reached some heady new peak of depravity in which the airwaves are awash in a non-stop bitch-ho spew.(click here for more from The Daily News)
Pardon me if all this strikes the music fan as more than a tad behind the curve. As someone who actually listens to all forms of popular music - as opposed to those who spend their hours just attacking it - I have to deliver some disappointing news:
Not only are we not submerged in some new Sodom, we're actually suffering through the most squeaky-clean phase in popular music since Pat Boone came in to shoo away all the sex and cool from the likes of Little Richard in the '50s."
Davey D: "Cheney, Rowe, Cohen, The Police - They Don’t Believe in Snitching so Why Should Hip Hop?" (click here for more)
* Other than, of all the rappers out there, MIMS and (not even a rapper) R. Kelly of course!
Labels: Davey D, Don Imus, Jim Farber, Kelefa Sanneh, MIMS, R. Kelly
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Hip Hop: no better than Imus?
It's already been discussed to death but after reading one of the daily press packs I get at work, which was basically 50% Imus & hip hop-related articles, I figured I'd link to some of the more notable articles I read...
Wall Street Journal: Hip-hop "artists" are no better than Imus.
NYC's Power 105 cracks down on hip-hop lyrics.
British PM Tony Blair blames spate of murders on black culture. Think about that for a minute.... (link via Cameron)
Imus rap takes Oprah inward.
War of words for Rev. Al & rap execs.
Time to clean house? HSAN Chairman Russell Simmons Calls For Closed Door Meeting To Discuss The Status Of Hip-Hop. I wonder if they'll have execs from Stones Throw, Rhymesayers, Fat Beats etc. there?
Meanwhile, rock CD sales are rollin' again! Hip Hop is Dead?
Previously on the Kitchen: Bigotry is Hip Hop's Fault??!
Labels: Don Imus, HSAN, Oprah, Russell Simmons, Tony Blair
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Busdriver on Freestyle 101
Following up on the Devin video from the "Freestyle 101" series on G4TV I posted a couple weeks ago, here's the latest episode featuring West Coast underground MC, Busdriver. Like I told a friend who I sent this video link to earlier today, this is the other side of the hip hop world that never gets talked about in the media when they throw hip hop into the middle of their Imus debates:
Online:
Busdriver - Website | MySpace
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Busdriver - Website | MySpace
Labels: Busdriver, Don Imus, Freestyle 101, G4TV
Friday, April 13, 2007
Bigotry is Hip Hop's Fault??!
Interesting past couple of days for race-related issues in post-Sean Bell America:
The Duke Lacrosse rape case charges are dropped!
From a supposed former Imus show insider: "what the media won't tell you about Don Imus" was gonna be the featured link in my Imus-related post 'til the dude got fired yesterday. (first link via Rizoh)
Of course no matter how repugnant people's actions and words are, it's always hip hop's fault!
Maybe no matter how big and "mainstream" it becomes, people will still hate (or is it fear?) hip hop culture.
Labels: Crystal Gail Mangum, Don Imus, Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, Michelle Malkin, Sean Bell
