The East New York brothers on their block sipping brew charging visitors $20 to take a picture of a Banksy stenciled rat were just charging a tax. Can’t knock the hustle. When Banksy announced on his website that he was selling his stencil painted canvases in Central Park, it seemed like everyone knew except New Yorkers. He was selling original signed canvases. He himself (or they) calls his stencil paintings cheating. Graf writers aren’t exactly loving this dude, but he …
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The World Famous “Wake Up Show” went unplugged on September 21st with a live band in the basement. Co-founders and hosts Tech, Sway and DJ Revolution curated a unique showcase of talented spitters that included Crooked I(Slaughterhouse), Audible Doctor (Brown Allstars), J Terrible, Bishop Lamont, Chris Young, Gilligan Gatsby, Jasiri X, Nessasary, Thesarus, Mitch Littlez, Senica Da Misfit, Roqy Tyraid, R-Mean, and Bishop Lamont. According to the Wack Up Show site, the event was improvised. Allhiphop.com said the grammy award …
In New York City heads in the hood are getting hip to Banksy’s work. They covered up one of his pieces and started charging visitors $20 to take a picture of it. Banksy is in New York for a month doing a man on the street artist residency. Stencil paintings are popping up in the most unlikely places and it’s causing an unlikely clash between the hood and “the art world.” The incident surrounding the painting is in East New …
India comedy crew All India Bakchod do a bit about India’s rape culture. Are you working the late shift and walking home alone? Are you not fighting back? Do you hate yourself? Are you wearing clothes? Don’t you know men have eyes? Rape? It’s your fault. As the video goes on the women are increasingly bruised and bloodied. Is this ok? Sarcasm and rape as a tool for social commentary is seemingly effective to some and offensive to others, but in …
The spark that let the Civil Rights Movement rolls around San Francisco followed by a film crew in 1963. The documentary Take This Hammer first broadcasted in 1964. Writer James Baldwin’s freestyle rhetoric lights firestorms. Check it here. The American Dream and the American Negro By JAMES BALDWIN I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to …
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