Y’all don’t love the Jungle Brothers enough

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CMJ Presents: Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

The artist’s life is a colorful source of inspiration necessary for the music that will become the conduit between their persona and the world that accepts it as their own soundtrack. A Tribe Called Quest has played in that very

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French Film about 90′s Hip-Hop (via @chairmanmaonyc)

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Bodega International: The Dialects of Hip Hop

Crossing one of the few tree-lined streets in the city, shifting my laptop higher up on my side to keep it from slipping, I think to myself — I should have probably swung on a backpack. But nobody I know

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Hip Hop Promotes Reading

From HHP On Saturday, August 14, 2010 Mississippi will host its next Hip Hop and Books Rally to promote the importance of reading, but the special guests are joining the event from California’s Oakland area. Founder Cyrus Webb is pleased

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Hip-Hop As Educational Tool for Algebra

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The class of eighth graders at a Los Angeles middle school tap their rulers and nod their heads to the rhythm of the rap video projected on a screen. It’s not Snoop Dogg or Jay-Z. It’s

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Take A Listen: Flying Lotus

From npr The first time I heard Flying Lotus, I was watching the Cartoon Network, eating Cherry Garcia and waiting for the next episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, when an 8-bit fireball came bouncing through my TV speakers. I

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Esperanza Spalding: Blending Jazz, Brazilian Music and Hip-Hop

From npr When bassist, composer and vocalist Esperanza Spalding released Esperanza in 2008, she was widely praised for her blend of mainstream jazz with jazz fusion, Brazilian music and hip-hop. Spalding began performing in her hometown of Portland, Ore., while still in her teens,

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Monks, Alcohol & Hip-Hop

Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Outside the 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple, Kansho Tagai, dressed in his traditional monk robes, paused and began a sutra. He bobbed his head and then broke into a lyrical rap. “This is an old, old story, a

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Bill Cosby: Social Networks & Hip-Hop

From NYT At the end of the first decade of the third millennium, it is not unexpected that a veteran comic would plant a flag on the Internet: Shecky Greene has a Web site, and Shelley Berman has a Facebook

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