This is an interview KRS One did recently in Switzerland, conducted by johnSF88. He talks about Hip-Hop’s ancient origins, knowledge of self, the current state of Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop in corporate environments, and new ideas that he’s currently spearheading. He asks Hip-Hop heads to question him, and not take him at his word, it’s his “Philosophy.” You gotta check it out to see if it matches your’s (gnosis/scientific). Me personally, KRS talks here about free education being important (I concur) but he mentions this …
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Rapper, singer, mother, artist and controversial figure M.I.A had a show in New York last night and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was the opening act and “Epic guest speaker” via Skype. Assange is still living out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London. He’s hosting “The World Tomorrow,” a TV show that M.I.A produced the opening music for. Her album, Matangi, out November 5th. More to the point, here’s a hypnotic video portrait of said rapper by Erik Sanchez. M.I.A’s “Bad Girls” never …
Detroit native Danny Brown recently put out his latest album Old and it’s been well received. He’s obviously a writer, but his voice is a cat getting its head twisted off by a half conscious heroin addict. Not my cup of craft beer, except “Guitar Solo.” In this Frames episode, Brown tells a story about getting ripped off by a crack head. …
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 …
Jamel Shabazz is a street photographer that captured the early days of hip-hop and Spray Can Art or what came to be known as (Graf)fiti. His incredible photos are held as evidence of the early days of hip-hop culture. His life and work are a testament to the phrase, “something from nothing.” Recently Shabazz became the subject of the recent documentary, Jamel Shabazz The Street Photographer, directed by Charlie Ahearn, the man behind the hip-hop classic movie, Wild Style. Jamel …
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