The current global dominance of Canadian music on today’s Billboard charts obscures the difficulties many early rap artists faced in garnering local support for this country’s hip hop music.
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“The Magnificent Seven” was a slice of daily life, a class struggle song framed by the sound of funk and the emergent hip-hop in New York.
Hip-hop may benefit from a return to the crew and collective mentality, where the DJ once again is valued and plays a central creative role.
At one of his shows, rapper Kendrick Lamar asked a white fan to refrain from rapping the n-word. A video of the incident has reignited a controversy: can white people ever rap the n-word?
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.
The Beastie Boys’ Ill Communication closed out hip-hop’s Golden Age with a kaleidoscope of jazz-infused beats, bratty punk interludes and a deeper appreciation for storytelling.
Something really magical is happening at the intersection between jazz and hip-hop at the moment. Many of the artists involved will be playing at Africa’s foremost jazz festival.
Top contributors
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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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Lecturer of English. PhD Candidate in Afrofuturism and African Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Assistant Professor of Race and Media, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor of Hip-Hop, University of Virginia
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Senior Lecturer in Music, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Religious Studies, University of Arizona
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Professor of Music, Wesleyan University
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Humanitarian and Development Research Initiative, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Media Studies, Quinnipiac University
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Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Calgary
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
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Teaching Assistant Professor of Musicology, West Virginia University
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Professor of History, McGill University
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Hip-Hop Studies, University College Cork
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Associate of the Gordon Institute for Business Science, University of Pretoria