by admin | Oct 10, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
One of my favorite students is in France right now and I asked her to send me some French hip-hop. This is what she dropped on me. I wonder if the man in the video is a stand-in for Sarkozy (or a supporter at any rate)? [kml_flashembed...
by admin | Oct 6, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture, The Mass Media, things that make you go hmm |
This is Mafia K1 Fry. The track is called “Pour Ceux” (“For Those”). The group reminds me a lot of the Wu. Even if you can’t understand French (I can translate on the written page ok, but I can’t translate from hearing it) you...
by admin | Oct 3, 2007 | Culture, Hip-hop, Pop Culture |
Picked this up through Open Culture: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/3zJqihkLcGc” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Needless to say…this is hip-hop.
by admin | Sep 7, 2007 | Culture |
I cribbed this from Warren Ellis. * Createspace.com: Amazon’s Print On Demand operation. Very interesting. For no money at all, you can create a book (or CD or DVD or whatever), get an Amazon Buy It Now badge for your website, and let them take care of...
by admin | Aug 22, 2007 | Culture, Sports |
The central meme that will define Vick’s circumstance is a simple one. He didn’t leave the hood in the hood. People make the same argument about Pacman, and used to make the same argument about AI. But here’s the thing. While there is a set of...
by admin | Jul 27, 2007 | Crime and Punishment, Culture, Pop Culture |
One of the issues that I’m currently trying to work my way through deals with the politics of black cultural production. More specifically what happens to genres like rap, techno, house, as they move across space and time? To an extent this relates to issues of...
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