Tupac is proof that being young, marginal and Black does not necessarily mean being powerless.
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50 Cent possessed the authenticity so important to hip-hop. He wasn’t just posturing about the ‘gangsta’ lifestyle – he had lived it.
Since rap music emerged in mainstream culture in the late 1980s, politicians have derided its lyrics and imagery as violent. Over the years, rap has become an easy target to blame for violence.
Since rap music emerged in mainstream culture in the late 1980s, conservatives have derided its lyrics and imagery as violent. But hip-hop artists argue those images reflect urban realities.
What if the current cultural context is informing the production of mumble rap? In the contemporary western world, daily life is fuelled by widespread consumption of both products and images.
Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
In a gloomy year filled, a number of artists with an Afrofuturist perspective gave hope with inspired works of art.
There is a muscular, tattooed man holding a machine gun. He is in front of an expensive sports car, with gold chains around his neck and what looks like a Rolex on his wrist. The man is standing proudly…
Why is this film being released now? Is it in response to the Black Lives Matter movement spreading across the US via social media, in turn a response to racist police violence in Miami Gardens, Ferguson, Baltimore?
Some pain might have been avoided (and probably less money made) if a simple basic fact had been acknowledged from the beginning: Fuck tha Police is meant to be funny.
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Assistant professor in Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel
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Research Lead at Rhythm Obscura / Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth
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Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Honorary research affiliate, Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town
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Piano Performance Fellow, The University of Queensland