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music and african american athletics have been connected since |
louis armstrong sponsered a baseball team. armstrons secret nine of new orleans 1931 |
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baseball was the |
repository of black style |
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high rollers go to |
sporting events |
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the synergy of black celebrities is powerful |
they are connected by the pressure of white scrutiny, black adoration, and dealing with sudden bewildering sums of money |
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band stand and dance floor |
have equal parralells in the intenstiy and fancy footwork of the african american sportsman |
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two contemporary definers of african americans |
hip hop and basketball |
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elgin baylor |
first man in the league to walk on air |
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earl monroe |
dribbled and shot as if hed turned thelonious monks piano |
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american basketball association |
wayward hild of a few self proclaimed millionaires and hustling liars -three point shot -multimillion dollar salaries for ninetten year olds |
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black street flair that was long suppressed by the ________ was unleased by the ________ and forever changed |
nba and ncaa division 1, aba |
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hawkins |
held the basketball like a grapefruit in his hands |
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haywoods deal led to a |
supreme court case |
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aba had |
alot of stories |
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dr.j erving |
legend -afro and goatee gravity defying dunks |
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1997 converse commercial |
evoked the right one majesty of ervings game with images of his aerodynamically impossibble dunks backed by stevie wonders higher ground |
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dawkins |
shattered backboards, naiming his dunks, and claiming birth on the plantent lovetron |
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dr j erving |
made converses' big |
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world b free |
streaky guard lloyd free |
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even the 76ers white boys were in hip hop parlance ill |
even the 76ers white boys were in hip hop parlance ill |
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in shue |
the 76ers had a coach who encouraged freelancing, fst break, and a game of reckless abandon tht suited dr j and his back board shattering off balacne shot taking high flying cohorts |
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76ers didnt win the title until |
1983 |
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erving was surrounded by players with sounder fundamentals |
which helped him become a more rounded better player |
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dr j appeared in |
coke commercials philidelphia distriubtor ship became a major sex symbol moved converse from canvas to leather |
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evelved from aba renegade to all american role model |
erving |
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in mid 80s ervings mantle as phillys airmaster was overtaken by |
round mound of rebound , barkley |
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barkley reveled in being |
player they loved to hate |
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barkley |
was agressive |
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barkley |
didnt tell people what they wanted to hear, he told the truth |
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barkley |
commodified rebellion for the consumption of the masses of the 80s |
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in 1992 |
barkley was traded to pheonix |
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the leaving of barkley |
left the 76ers with no identying presence which meant they took up alot of college kids |
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cash and skills |
afford celbrity for basketball players |
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players of the 90s invested in |
rap production companies and on occasion rap themselves |
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scott, shaw, and oneal |
had rap material in record stores |
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stackhouse |
good player which was 76ers first choice had no antiheroism |
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dc |
upset people |
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1996 |
6ers got a new stadium and recruited the best available b boy allen iverson |
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allen iverson |
despite small great player perfected crossover dribble |
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iverson was charged with |
maiming by mob |
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iversons charges were dropped |
true |
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thompson |
more than a agressibe coach, as a critic of how ollege basketball rules restricted the recruiting of blak student athletes. |
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thompson |
had been as resolute as his swuads playing |
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for iverson |
thompson changed his coaching style |
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iverson |
dominated the big east conference and established himself as one of the ages exceptional players |
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1996 |
with thompsons bleeings, ivrson became the first georgetown player to leave school early for the nba |
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iverson |
was number one choice for phily and scored a major sneaker deal with rebok |
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had a combative hip hop bred attitude toward the leagues elders |
iverson |
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said he didnt respoect anyone on the court |
was taken as a dis to jordanm rodmanm pippin |
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iverson |
became the living embodiment of hip hops boldness and taste for controlled rebellion |
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when a posse of his boys and stackhouses friends got into a scuffle outside a sixer practive. |
iverson defended them all . a sign of solidarity with hishomies central to the culture |
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iverson has formed his own production company |
crew thick |
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hip hop is not a political movement in the usual sense |
true |
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hip hop___________ present a systematic critique of white world supremacy |
doesnt |
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hip hop has not produced |
a manifesto for collective political agitation |
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hip hop has not |
produced no malcom x or dr. king nor has it spawned no grassroots activist organization on the order of the southern chirstian leadership conference, the black panther party, naacp, or even the country music association |
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Hip hop has acually had suprisinly little |
concrete long term impoact on african american politics |
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hip hop made its mark by |
turning its listeners on to real political icons,radical organization of the past, and self sufficient operation of the present. |
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hip hop has |
articulated and predicted the explosive rage that rocked los angeles in 1992 |
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hip hop has |
given two generations of young people a way into the entertainment buisness and and uncensored vehicle for expression |
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chuck d said |
he hope public enemy would spawn thousands of black leaders |
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public enemy |
probably affected many more young people than thousands |
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hip hops major problem is |
mcs are not political activists by trainng or inclination |
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public enemys ultimate strenth was |
making and selling records |
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public enemy made politics seem |
cool |
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hip hops values |
revellion identification with street culture materialism aggression .... flexible tool of communication ... adaptable |
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hip hop values are |
are easy to market or turn into a elemtn of a product |
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hip hop survives |
even the crassest commericalism |
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hip hop is the ultimate capitalist tool |
has literary, cinematic, fashionable, and political in ways that have nothing to do with black nationalism |
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the dichotomy between vibe and souce |
white merchandisers and grassroots ethic designers speaks to the multiple approaches and overall evolution of what may be the most multilaered aspect of hip hop ... its style |
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most multilayered aspect of hip hop |
its style |
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more than dancing , record production, and rhyming |
fashion has utated amazingly |
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in 1995 essay by sally fletcher |
piece on urban fashion by stating a "true hip hop spirit doesnt need or want a designer label on his jeans" his own name is the only commodity to promote. |
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flinker aruges |
a heightened sense fo identity of putting across ones personal image was essential to this post soul era aestheti |
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in hip hops firs phase |
flinker was right |
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gang mode |
dungaree jacket turned inside out with the name savage nomads or jolly stompers drawn on the back |
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gand mode |
was the origal hip hop fashion |
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original hip hop fashion was |
gang mode or hododed jackets or sweatshirt |
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original hip hop fashion |
gold chains , street tags on name plates, baseball and painters capts, worn sideways or painted, sweat suits, usually adidas, and shell toed sneakers with fat laces or no laces |
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personalizing the gear, use of clashing colors, or wearing clothes out of season |
was essetial |
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brand name gear |
tended to be inexpensive, utilitarian and low maintenance |
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leather ski parka with fur trim |
came out of hip hops early days and has not totally disappeared |
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was an imporivitional quality |
to style in the old school late 70s- 1983 |
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70-83 |
time when high fashion designers began taking these street style and the day glo colors used to tag subway cars seriously |
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first designer in hip hop game was |
wili smith who hired several graffiti aritsts to do a playful t shirt line |
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84 stephen sprouse |
integrated day glo colors and graffiti styled prints into his work |
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norma kamali |
gave using breaking and rap as a bacdrop for showcasing their lines of hip hop apparel |
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norma kamalis try in 1984 resulted in |
street beat. it was later reedited with chaka khan and became the video for khans hit single "i feel for you" |
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85 |
was when the athletic manufacurers began to see how the link between hip hop and their products could pay off |
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__________ made the concnection between hip hop and athletic wear real |
russel simons |
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michael jordan |
had a landmark nike deal |
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run was told |
he would have his own line of adidas clothing |
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most memorable event to run |
adidas line of clothing , until he became born again |
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run dmc and adidas colab |
signified that hip hop community was now having things made expressly for them by major manufacturers |
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whodini made a small deal with |
lacoste |
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ll cool j a large deal with |
troop |
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dapper dans shop |
one of the sites where the relationship between mainstream fashin and hip hop was altered |
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on dapper dans street that |
mike tyson on his way to pick up a custom made dont belive the hype leather jacked punched out mitch green in 88 |
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dans shop made |
faux gucci oufits for eric b and rakim for cover of follow the leader |
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dans shop |
were cut to fit hubcaps furniture large embelms of designers were ut |
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the appropriation of high fashion items began in |
late 70s with cazals |
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cazals |
line of designer glases frames that were wore just as frames |
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old school symbols of self identification |
nameplate belt cukcles and stenciled t shirts |
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old school symbols of self idnetification |
gave way to the cultures total immersion with expensive status gear |
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during the days bambaataa, hec, and flash were spinning in the bronx parks |
gang emblems were drawn and spray painted onto jackets and dunaree legs |
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raiders became another gang generated style |
true |
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when kings hockey switched to silver and black |
the logo quickly became essential to the west coast hip hop uniform |
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sunglasses |
locs |
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gangs and drug operations |
gravitated in different sports merchandise |
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sellers of athletic apparel began |
courting gang members |
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heavy winter obots (timbs) came from |
use by crack dealers |
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the manufacturere of tims was |
uncomfortable with the unexpected identification of its brand name with urbban youth |
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when the word of mouth was that that timbs didnt like the hip hop t |
tims dissapeared from the cultureonly ember left of timbs was |
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top vitginina based producer went |
by the name timbaland |
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tribe called quests 1tip |
requested for polo street wear and was rejected by reps for the ralph lauren affiliated company |
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regected for plo street wear because |
they were worried about how it would affect the comanys image |
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laurens reevaluation to embrace hip hop was |
influenced by the relationship between hip hop and tommy hilfiger |
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grand puba |
has always been a hipster favex member of masters of cerembony and sometime member of brand nbian and the possessor of an intriguing off kilter flow has always been a hipster favorite |
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grand puba remained a hipster fav bc |
he remained as much a cult figure as a record seller |
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puba started mentioning |
hillfiger in his work |
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andy tommys brother offered |
puba and his crew to get whatever they wished |
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urban prep |
prep clothes with larger logos and mroe colorful to appeal to hip hop |
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urban prep |
dressing that took prep school clothes and strtched them to fit the loose, baggy feel of the 90s |
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kadada |
jones daughter became a free loating asset for the tommy line |
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Rumor on hilfiger dissed |
black market on the oprah show |
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hilfiger |
was estrong supporter of vibe and was friends with simmons and jones butknew litle about hip hop |
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96 |
hilfiger was the 1 apparel traded on the ny stock exxchange bc hip hop and urpan prep look |
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hip hop driven growth of ddsigners like hilfiger and lauren didnot drive |
smart african american companies out of buisness |
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hilfiger |
expanded the market |
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larger brands made |
more adventurous dressers keep it real by seeking black designers |
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nlack and hip white consumers decided |
they wouldnt be caught dead wearing the fashion equivalent of a hammer rocrod |
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black run apparel enterprises ten to be |
more progressive in their choices of fabics, lgs, and colors |
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Karl Kai |
greatest hip hop african american fashio success story |
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karl kani |
carl wililams, a brooklyn native based out of los angelees made 50 m in 97 |
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91 kani pioneered |
eextra naggy pants and sweaters with his bold signature adorning each piece |
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kanis work was distrubuted in partenrship with |
threads 4 life (lla), cross colours line |
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cross colours |
brand known for baggy denim overalls highlightened by a ggaish red, yellow, and green logs |
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mismanagement and unpaid bills brought kanis line to a halt |
allowed hilfigers of the world to move in |
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around the country other innovative african american apparel companies |
folowed kanis lead |
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two conflicting trends in fashion that speak to battling aesthetics within the overall culture |
1- those whom dress to impress iwth high fashion names 2- do it yourself philosphy that created hip hop |
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designer just comes off as |
im paid consumerism with no subcontext now |
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chuck d |
had his own lothing line rapp |
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fred siegel boutique a |
and fat farm |
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the curiousity and ambition |
is no where near abating |
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barry michale cooper |
toughtful heaty laugh guy |
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barry like georges |
review of schraders amercan gigolo |
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barry michael booper |
a reporter forecaster on the emerging culture of drugs, gunsm, and sampled beats that exploded in tandem with crack |
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barry cooper |
gave the phrase new jack swing to tedd rileys sound |
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bary boopers signature piece of journalism |
kiss killing kids : new yak city eats its young ... detroits brutal drug scene |
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kids killing kids showed |
dealers and its youth culture as trailblazers in experiencing the possibilites and corruption that crack presented |
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alarms that the need to |
showand prove is that extreme when it comes to gangster style |
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barry was warned by local gangsters to |
stay out of detroit |
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barrys article attracted |
wo aggressive black film producers george jackson and doug mchenry |
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barry was then |
recruited by jackson and mckenry to write hollywood moldrama about new jack halem drug dealer fot the 80s |
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hip hop put a premium on |
authenticity |
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barrys title |
new jack city |
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barry |
put a personal samp on new jack city bysetting t in barrys hoo, and featuring a conflict between two brothers inth drug game who clash over limits of loyaltybarry also produced sugar hill and above the rim |
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sugar hill and above the rim 94 |
halem crime dramas featuring brothers in conflict |
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barrys movies |
are obsessed iwht grime andtroubled familiies of uptown new yrok |
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pup fiction is |
disdained by most educated folkss |
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barrys films have been derided as |
contempoary blaxploitation |
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nick pileggis gangsta scripts |
flow out of his days covering the mafia |
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barrys work |
is in the authentic pulp fiction tradition of icebe slim and donald goinesas are the gangsta rhymes of rappers such as krs one and ice cuve |
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96 ww nort a publisher began a line called |
old school books which spoke to the dark side of the soul era from 58-70s |
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old school books looked at american life |
harsh despairing eyes |
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old school books |
was under guidancec of pulp fiction fanatics gerald and vlumenfeld |
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himes and williams and the line has reprinted two of the ovscure novels |
williams the angry ones and himes the end of the primitive |
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two oldschool books that were famous |
the angry ones, willim and the end of th eprimitive, himes |
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heart of the line is dedicated to |
rescuing lost writers like clarence cooper jr, herbert simmons, and charles perry |
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worl dof the desperate and the deranged the doomed and the damned where the sn never worl dof the desperate and the deranged the doomed and the damned where the sn never shinesshines |
worl dof the desperate and the deranged the doomed and the damned where the sn never shines |
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payback pres |
uk uk counter part important in the states |
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paybak press like old school books |
links reality rap to forgotton hard boiled prose ... explorations of nihilstic racism a nd the nightmares of african americans are apart of an occasionally disreputable legacy that hsould not be ignored |
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post sould generation |
has more freedom |
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70s |
olde english 800 was on the rise |
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olt 45 was a r&b brew |
olde e was old school raps favorite libation |
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dmc wrote a poem |
on olde e |
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malt liquor was for |
roughnecks way before mc lyte popularized the phrase |
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mal liquor ads had long used symbols of |
black macho and music driven spots on theblck radio |
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fred wiliamson |
king coba spokesmand |
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st ides ignored |
mainistream rapstars and went right for the hard core |
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st ides |
collag with king tee |
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st ides was for |
roughneks like you |
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1 million bottle bags |
cuckd song o commented negatively on phenomenon of malt liquor and hip hop |
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chuck d sued st ides distributor |
mckenzie river corporation for 5 million and made an out of court settlement that reputedly provided the down payment on an atlanta home |
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st ides replace cube iwht d |
snoop |
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artist for st ides commerical was same artsits that did |
artwork for doggystyle |
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sprite |
specifically targeted the hip hop audience in the mid 90s |
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sprite |
firt tv spots iwht a trive called quest |
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sequences from the movie wild style were restaged using contemporary stars |
for sprite |
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lisa wiliamson |
great leader for afriecan america |
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lisa williamson |
wasnt integrationist but informed by commonsense black nationalism |
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lisa |
got a job from a reverend to build a network for youth activists |
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chavis's recognition of lisas leadership qualities suggested a progressive quiality |
that would later lead him to the presidency of the NAACP, where he did outreach with black youth gang |
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1997 chavis |
renounced christianity and joined the nation of islam as a deputy to louis farrakhan |
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Lisa wanted to |
take 100 of the the kids who lived in city subsidized housing to a abandoned black college campus in north caolina they could learn about curriculum as well as black hisory to personal hygeine |
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lisa made her firs real music buisness contract when she met |
bill sthney, th then def jam vice president |
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90 apollo theater even showased an allstar lineup of new york rap and raised 60 k |
to open lisas african youth survival camp |
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lisa was recruited by he new minister of information |
true |
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cuck d renamed her |
sister souljah |
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sister soulja was known as |
publi enemys female counterpart |
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sister souljah was signed to epic records in 1992 |
debut album ... 360 degreees of power slaverys still |
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slaversys still in efefct |
provactvie single bby sister souljah |
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clinton charged tht sister souljah was |
calling on blacks to kill whites and challenged reverned jsse jackson and his rainbow coalition to condemn her |
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clinton took sister souljahs |
statement in the post way out of context |
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hip hop is |
scapegoat |
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parents music resource center |
group that forces record industry to stiker is record with rations for ovscenity was inaugurated by al gores wife in 84 |
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sister souljah |
with the aid of times bbooks, became an author |
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sister souljahs |
no sirespect, a memoir of her romantic life tht jused her political activites as a distat backdrop for herown observation on love amog gneration x for h on love among generation x |
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lisa williamson is now working for puffy combs, |
runninghis daddys house charities |
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lisa went from |
antiapartheid ativist to angry nationalist rapper to relationship epert ack to do gooder |
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the most onsistent element of hip hop has been |
a captivating, yet ever mutating sense of self. |
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nelson george gave a talk at spelman all girls school on how |
lyrical violance toward women was a ugly compenstaion for their absence of rhyme skills |
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woman were fine with luke campbells |
negtive music as long as it was about hoes luke knew |
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luther campbell was |
kind of a cultural hero |
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nelson george thinks |
he was wrong for speaking poorly of a man putting street reality on record |
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it was _________ that owed its rhythmic unerpinning to electro funk like the soul sonic forces planet rock |
miami pumping bass, a kinetic, dance happy sound |
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2 live crew was the |
unofficial soundtrack of wet tshirt contests and other uplifting collegiate pursuits |
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many folks raised on hip hop have bought into a ver limited view of life one that |
deems that truth is defined by their perception of street dogma |
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2 live crew was |
subteranean battle of the sexes |
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an indirect yet high intensity cultural war between the african american sexes has |
spanned the post soul era |
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first shot in african american sex war was |
ntozake shange in the bicentennial year |
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colored girls who have considered suice/ when the rainbow is enuf |
tells storiess of females that have had evil done to them by the men they loved
- theater that captures years of black female frustration, confusion, and pain in one indelible image |
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michelle wallace black macho and he mth of the superwoman |
points out how exploitive of women black men often were during both the civil rights movement and the black nationalist era -highlights the sense of sexual entitlement that went along with visionary rhterric and leadership |
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black man is boogeyman phase |
black men were regularly depicted as rapists, muggers, and predators |
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black macho and the myth of the superwoman |
shed light on the machismo among the african american political leadership and altered views of the struggle for equality in ways some found traitorous |
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gayle jones correigdoras, alice walkers the third life of grange copeland, and the early work of toni morrisonscareer bluest eye sula |
evolved out of wanting to gie a voice t othe long suppressed experience of african american woman, a voice that inherently led to a critique of white racism and the pains inflicted upon african amerian women by the men in teir lives |
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zora hurston |
once restricted to black literary antologies, was anointed a patron saint of black womanhood -result of walker and washington |
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southern ritual influenced works like |
the color purple and disappearing acts |
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zoras revival made her |
valuable like men, black women were rethinking the past and writing themselves into the narrative |
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just as b boys were an emergin post soul force so was |
a national community of college educated, upwardly movlie, socially conscious, somewhat politicized black women |
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essence |
71 forum for empowering images, practical advice ad praise songs to sisterhood |
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male resentment towards black female asseriveness surrounded |
the color purple |
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criticism was aimed back at |
shange and wallace |
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the implication was that |
walker put black male misogyny on equal footing with white racism= many found this offesive |
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race loyalty displayed by prominant black woman |
was the cause of name calling, shouting, and general disrespect by men |
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proper negroes against jazz and blues |
women standin up for too live crew |
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the color purple and too live crew are both |
products of battle of sexes |
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getting paid justifies everything |
true |
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too live crew went to federal court in florida |
according to testimony this wasnt just a nasty rap group but a example of humor and satire |
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2 live crew |
first us recording group to have sales to minors banned on means of indecency |
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luke campbell became know as |
poster boy for rap raunchyness and the fight against censorship |
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91 2 live crew parody of rob orbinsons pretty woman |
attacked by publishers, Attuck-rose, yet supreme court ruled the 2 live crew in the ok for the fair use provisions of the copyright law |
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as campbell went bankrupt |
the country embraced his music but a more clean version of others |
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campbell then signedwith |
island in 97 |
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mr.mixx and brother marquis |
left over a dispute of money |
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campbell (captain dick) |
published black mens magazine and hosts x rated pay per view talk show |
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luther campbell as |
willie horton |
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the paranoia that people are being racially charged |
keeps facts from being brought up, people tend to pick side of colored individual |
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white plotting and black male foolishness |
can create a mess |
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the man who popularized the big black butt girl video as a vehicle for selling records |
campbell |
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campbell was |
nor a villian or a hero |
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at 85 rap battle for world supremacy |
roxanne shante ripped stetsasnics friutkwan and old school busy bee, she almost won mc of the year -memorable for woman because she was allowed to compete on equal footing |
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hip hops typical narrator is |
young, angry, horny male who is often distainful or at least uninterested in commitments of any kind |
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adult relationships are the backbone of |
blues and soul music -where both women and men tell stories of love hate infediaity and lust |
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latifah and lyte |
the genres most lyrically significant women |
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hip hops most comercially succesfull female group |
salt n pepa |
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female artists get their break through |
using sex |
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salt and pepa were supervised by |
hurby luv bug |
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ghettocentric view |
harsh, unsentimental, and antiwoman |
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disrespect towards woman had to do with |
crack |
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hip hop style made woman |
adopt a more b boy mentality and harsh mentality that didnt place much importance on female instincts |
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being an around the way girl |
was praised |
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there is a homoerotic quality to hip hop culture |
nurtured in gangs and jails, where woman are unneccsary other than for sex |
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90s is |
overcompensating for 80s style in woman |
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a landscape where woman were stereotyped and weakened of their values is the environment where |
2 live crew thrived |
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gold diggers started with |
kool moe dee's they want money |
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rap records articulate teh black men are |
under attack by white men and black woman |
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la di da di was |
first rap record to be cited by source to call a woman bitch |
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c dolores tucker |
always wore turbans |
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warwick and moore were |
supporters of tucker |
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tucker and her supporters were |
woman who resented the power hip hop gave to young african american males they didnt like that rap made it that a unworthy generation of entreuprenuers pushed past them |
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tucker was a |
veteran of the civil rights movement and long time liberal activist and civil servant. served as pensylvanias secratary of state from 71-77 |
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tuckers argument was that |
the rap that she and her advisors disliked was not popular on its own merits because white corporations sold it |
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tuckers goals was to |
clean up rap lyrics |
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tucker states that rap in its purest form was |
artform of prose and poetry which expressed life in the same sense that the spirituals did |
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3 bands that plyed crucial roles in creating raps rep for mysogny |
2 live crew, niggaz with attitude, geto boys |
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the self defeating view that tucker had was that |
black creators wouldnt succeed without white buisness men |
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knight offered tucker |
the rights to moores lift every voice and sing -she offered to set up a meeting between knight and fuchs |
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tucker was unwilling to take on the black artists directly so she |
blamed white faces |
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tucker got a lawsuit from interscope for |
tampering |
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tucker had an alliance with |
william bennet self serving alliance GOP |
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william bennett |
enemy of black america |
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tucker committed the same hypocrisy that she accused the hip hop community of |
making a deal with the white poer structure to further your own selfish ends |
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congresswoman water |
stood up for rap |
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tuckers acolyes were dissmissive of waters |
they said shed taken blood ojey, as if their liison with the gop gave the the moreal authroity to judge |
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august 97 tucker sued tupac estate for |
references in all eyez on me harmer her marriage, resulting in the inability of her and her husband to have sex for two years |
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starski wanted to be a mc |
but was a better dj |
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_________ has enjoyed the longest comercially viable career as an MC because he is remarkably versatile |
ll cool j |
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once a rap star falls |
they usually dont get back up |
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________ helped create alot of the contemporary rap vocab |
late cowboy of furious five, kidd creole, and melle mel |
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coke la rock |
pumped the crowds for kool herc, cited by some as a crucial creator of style |
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og |
pete dj jones |
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hollywood was |
one of the biggest stars of the prerecorded era of mcing, thrivedin disco and after hour clubs in bronx and harlem, and he created many hip hop signature phrases |
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hollywood released a 12 inch single |
in 86 on an uptown indie label, country toast |
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younger stars build upon |
older stars and add personality and eprspectives that make them stars |
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there is an aspect of the american psyche, one forged in this nations overheated furnace of racism and stoked by liberal guilt, that tempts us to romatnicize the often ovscure pioneers of afrcan american musical culture |
there is an aspect of the american psyche, one forged in this nations overheated furnace of racism and stoked by liberal guilt, that tempts us to romatnicize the often ovscure pioneers of afrcan american musical culture |
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survival of the fittest is a concept |
intergral to hip hops competitive nature |
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grandmaster caz states that |
big bank hank of rappers delight stole his lyrics and used it in rapeprs delight |
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beasties introduced caz at a concert |
caz wouldnt let go of the mic |
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kool moe dee |
bowed out gracefully |
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moe dee reinvented himself |
created doctor wich was a minor pop hit |
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moe dee dressed |
futuristic |
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moe dee didnt jump start his career until he |
got into battling |
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moe dee had rivalry with ll cool j |
bumped his music career |
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moe dee had a positive knowledge is king album |
true |
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kool moe dee |
began acting and started screenwriting |
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dee released |
2 albums in 90s |
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in 96 in partenership with maty rich |
moe dee sold himself to disney as a talk show host |
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ll released a song that said he took down |
cool moe |
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moe dee |
actually lived through hip hop and came out the other side |
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young black french record executive explains that |
hiphop in southern france is heavily influenced by african and arab culture, while the words are specific to frances uneasy ethnic mix |
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frances biggest rap star |
mc solaar |
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french bboys are |
usually stuck up |
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englands most imporant hip hop gatekeeper |
tim westwood |
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hip hop has |
funked the world |
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hip hop and its culutre has been embraced by young people as a conduit for informationa nd attitude that irritates the cdolores tucker of every country |
hip hop and its culutre has been embraced by young people as a conduit for informationa nd attitude that irritates the cdolores tucker of every country |
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bc hip hop has so many elemtns (dancing, clothing, musicm attitude) |
its essential mutability makes it adapbtable world wide |
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many european groups |
employ english as a univeral language |
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djs are respected |
more in other countries than US |
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young non american djs have |
helped popularize the phrase turntablistss |
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turntablists goals is to |
create sonic tapestries for listeners, showcasing the djs dexterity and library -disdain for commercial hip hop -more self conscious display of aritstry than rocking parties |
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us rhyme cadence and sample techniques are heard throughout |
south america |
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some of the worlds most heavily coded lyrics come from |
ireland |
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germanys biggest mid 80's group die fantastischenvier |
adopted a pop style anaologousto jazzy jeff and the fresh prince to overcome the harsh language problem |
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japanese are more interesting for |
style |
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japanese like raw rap |
like alkaholiks and large professor |
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new blackism |
in tokyo the fascination of hip hop -not always used affecionately |