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Princes among thieves: sampling the '80s - hip hop music I don't recall that the vogue lasted for more than a few years, but one of the things many of us did in the 1980s was to put a music sample on our answering ......(Continue Reading) Behind black music: two intriguing critical overviews - Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music - Race Music: Black Cultures From Bebop to Boogaloo: The Quintessence of American Popular Music by Arthur Kempton Pantheon, June 2003 $27.50, ISBN 0-375-40612-3 Race Music: Black Cultures From ......(Continue Reading)Black is back - hip-hop and rap music culture Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar [*] Vijay Prashad [*] Hip-hop's art of rebellion can trigger a battle against racism or raise the white flag to hyper-consumerism ......(Continue Reading)If hip-hop ruled the world - the gangsta music and lifestyle as presented globally by the current music of US Black youth culture should be changed to You know them well. You can pick them out anywhere. They are the homeboys. The B-boys. The hip-hop kids. We see them slouched against walls, hats pulled ......(Continue Reading)Music masters: a new generation of rap moguls is making the industry dance to a different beat: ownership - The hip-hop economy part 3 of a series - Industry SO SO DEF RECORDINGS CEO JERMAINE DUPRI has been cranking out chart-toppers from his Atlanta-based music factory for more than a decade now. The rap ......(Continue Reading)
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