Category: Hip-Hop
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Keep DC Wal-Mart Free! Head-Roc ft. DJ Munch and Jared Ball
"Keep DC Walmart Free" by Head-RocWatch this video on YouTube
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The Black Power Mixtape Remixes Black Power
It would be difficult to argue that the filmmakers of the recently-released documentary Black Power Mixtape did not intend the irony that…
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The Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication
I Mix What I Like! In Defense and Appreciation of the Rap Music Mixtape as “National” and “Dissident” Communication in the International…
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Beyond the Beats: Towards a Radical Analysis of the State of Hip-Hop
NCMR 2011 – Beyond the Beats: New Perspectives in Hip-Hop CultureWatch this video on YouTube Dr. Chris Tinson, Rosa Clemente, Mariama White-Hammond and Jared Ball participated…
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Drawing Some Political Lines: Ideology in Hip-Hop
Rosa Clemente and Jared Ball addressed the topic of “The Rap on Politics” during the second annual “Is Hip-Hop History?” conference at the City College…
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Sponsorship Matters! Of Name Drops and Memorials: Dr. King Gets Love from Hip-Hop
According to Thomas Conner and the Washington Post, you know, that veritable clearinghouse of Black history, radical politics and cultural expression, hip-hop…
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The Assata Taught Me Mixtape
Featured Emancipatory Mix! From DJ Plant Bass: Assata Shakur is a soldier for community, a Black Panther who waged revolution for a…
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Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? by Greg Thomas
Mi Say WAR: Hip-Hop vs. The Bourgeois West … and ‘Hip-Hop Studies’? (A Review of Tricia Rose’s The Hip-Hop Wars, For Example) by Greg Thomas …