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Hip Hop History: A Remarkable Journey From Humble Beginnings
From its humble beginnings from the poorest of the poor to the far and wide stages worldwide, hip hop has grown into one of the world’s most popular music genres. It has inspired significant cultural influences spanning several generations. It is an artistic movement that had a substantial impact on the music industry. Hip hop is music with a heart-thumping beat, spinning dance moves with a cyclone’s speed, machine gun lyrics timed to the rhythm of the tune, and art forms that defy common logic and speak to the soul. These are the four elements of hip hop. But we’re getting a bit too far and far too fast. To…
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Busta Rhymes is Back! All his tracks are fire
Thank fuck. I haven’t blogged here for 3.5 years, because for various reasons, and one of the bigger ones was not being inspired by a lot of music out today. I’ve grown to appreciate some newer artists and go with how hip hop music is evolving, and I feel I’m in a more positive place to write here again. Shoutout also goes to one of my lifelong friends who will just send me a link to watch after months of not having chatted to each other, because that’s the kinda tight relationships I have with my besties. He was spot on with the BET Cypher 2020 that I blogged about earlier and…
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BET Cypher 2020 H.E.R, Erykah, Teyana, Brandy
It's so good to see females being represented more frequently in hip hop for their musical talents and nothing else, so props to the people behind the BET Cypher 2020.
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The Get Down Part 2 – Now Streaming on Netflix
The Get Down – Part 2 Official Trailer Buy The Get Down Soundtrack (Part 1 & Part 2) After 8 months of the release of The Get Down Part 1 on Netflix, we finally have access to the rest of the 5 episodes of the most comprehensive dramatised show about the evolution of Hip Hop. It’s one of the most expensive television series to make alongside Game Of Thrones and Lost, costing an average $10 million per episode. The first part of the series takes us through the lives of characters symbolic of varying elements that contributed to the birth of Hip Hop (emceeing, djing, graffit and dancing) during the phasing…
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[Video] – All Eyez On Me Movie Trailer (Tupac Biographical Film Coming 16 June 2017)
Finally! The highly anticipated visual biography of the late Tupac Shakur, ‘All Eyez On Me‘, will be released on June 16 this year, on what would have been his 46th birthday. Newcomer Demetrius Shipp Jr plays the coveted role of Tupac and takes on a huge responsibility in bringing the infamous rapper’s story to the big screen along with director Benny Boom. Boom’s previous credits includes over 200 music videos for a variety of hip hop and r&b artists and a few television episodes including one for Empire. A life documented very well by the media in such a pivotal time for hip hop in history, it will be interesting to see how much new…
