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Too Many Groupies on the Radio
Have you listened to hip hop radio lately? Or should I say what passes for hip hop radio. Like anything else in our culture the standards for urban radio have been lowered. Instead of deejays on air being conversational -they shout. The art of one to one conversation style radio is lost in hip hop. Maybe station managers think that blacks and Latinos don't want to be talked to intelligently. ....
by Mark Skillz- 05/04


Getting’ Tipsy in tha Hour of Chaos
Once upon a time, in a ‘hood not too far away you could not turn on your favorite video show without seeing some rapper rappin’ about St. Ides Malt Liquor or the Schlitz Malt Liquor Bull bustin’ through your 19 inch set ....
by Min Paul Scott 05/04


She Got Served - The Impending Destruction of Lil' Kim
Kim posed nude in the back of a limousine for an ad. She has appeared for media interviews, with legs open and no underwear. Kim showed her breast repeatedly in front of concert audiences in New York and Boston way before Janet Jackson ever thought about it. In NY at the Hot97 Summer Jam concerts she used her newly implanted breast to upstage a host of celebrity rap acts....
by Bruce Banter - 05/04


House Nigga Hip Hop: Slaves in the Game
You have many Black people today who apologize for the Black roots of Hip Hop. Recently I was speaking at a Hip Hop event and the subject of race and politics came up. My question, was “Where does the Hip Hop community’s contemporary needs separate from the needs of the immediate needs of the African American community? Other people in Hip Hop have needs.” .....
by Adisa Banjoko 04/04


Why All The Kanye Hating?
What’s the deal with all this Kanye West hating? I read articles about him in countless publications criticizing him for his alleged arrogance, out of control ego, and proclamations that he’s Hiphop’s new savior. On Internet chat rooms and forums, folks say he can’t rap and is receiving too much undeserved exposure. Heads on the streets say that his tracks are dope but his rhymes are corny. ......
by Dome- 06/04


Got Myself A Gun-Hip Hop's New Fashion Statement
I would be a millionaire if I had a dollar for every time I read about a rapper being arrested on a gun charge. In today's hip hop culture, guns are 'fashion statements' for the young. Especially for those projecting a thug like image. You realize its mainly about, image when you notice that the richest rap stars (Eminem, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z and P-Diddy) have all been arrested and charged for gun possession at the height of their career. ....
by Bruce Banter- 05/04


Gangstaz, Gunz and Half Naked Girlz
I ’m not saying that some Brotha with a bad rap is somewhere sitting alone in his bedroom pumpin’ G-Unit while throwing darts at a picture of his ex girlfriend screamin’ ‘Take that you slut…Westside!!!!!’ But we do have to look at the way sista’s are portrayed in videos today through the eyes of marketing executives who spend millions of dollars psychoanalyzing Brotha’s in order to pinpoint our weaknesses and find ways to exploit us. ......
by Min Paul Scott- 05/04


Hip Hop: A Co-opted Culture
Hip hop was born of other traditions, two of the most notable being jazz and an ancient oral tradition encompassing various poetic forms. A common feature of both jazz and the poetry tradition is competition. During the bebop era of jazz, musicians would trade 8s, 4s and 2s, taking turns soloing over a given number of bars in a continual attempt to outplay one another ......
by Solomon Freed- 05/04


I Got 99 Problems But A Dick Ain't One - Vol. I
When I heard track # 9, "99 Problems", it prompted me to remember why I left his ass...he got issues- more importantly issues with women. Though the song is metaphorically used to describe an actual dog and a punk ass ni@@a, overall the word "bitch" is all too often associated with feminine behavior bad or good....
by Dat Chick- 05/04


An Open Letter to the Miami Herald About Rap COINTELPRO
I think the most important part of your recent work is that it indirectly approaches the nucleus of this entire matter, which raises the focus on the subject of surveillance of rap artists above police harassment and racial profiling, and properly placing it where it belongs – at the federal level. Getting to the federal level allows one to see the issue in historical context, which is why I have included “COINTELPRO” in the title of my series ....
by Cedric Muhammad- 03/04


Taste of Error in Your Favor:
Mobb Deep vs Ghettopoloy
It's perhaps no coincidence that "Got It Twisted," the new Mobb Deep single, arrived in the mail the same day as the infamous Ghettopoly board game. Both speak to the proliferation of 'hood stereotypes in hip-hop culture: The game spoofs the venerable Monopoly with cheap crack cocaine jokes, while Mobb rappers Havoc and Prodigy have a penchant for thugged-out subject matter and a reputation for making the same record over and over ....
by Eric K. Arnold - 05/04


Hip Hop, Politics and Political Hype
To say the least, Hip Hop and politics make strange bedfellows; a case of sleeping with the enemy. Since most politicians are old conservative white men who don’t’ know Afrika Bambaataa from Bam Bam from the Flintstones, the relationship between politicians and 20-something year old Hip Hop headz should be examined...
by Min Paul Scott- 05/04


Hip Hop Advice to the Democratic Party
Creative ways to swing the election in 2004? Get some money, get about sixty thousand, no, one hundred thousand dollars, and start having freestyle battles on what’s wrong with Bush. If I wanted to beat Bush right now, I would get three hot artists as judges: Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, Talib Kweli, maybe, and I’d be like “We gonna do a ten thousand dollar freestyle contest in every city about who can beat Bush and who can come up with the best freestyle as to what’s wrong with President Bush.” ....
by Davey D- 05/04


Rappers Are Not Musicians
Are rappers incredible poets and lyricists? Yes. Are rappers some of the most talented wordsmiths or spoken word artists ever recorded? Yes. Are they some of the greatest selling ‘music artists’ of all time…yes. Just don’t call them musicians. We haven’t had real music as a whole on radio for quite some time....
by Morris O'Kelly 04/04


A Message to the Hip Hop Community
Our youth are in a state of emergency. From my standpoint, as a case worker for “at-risk” youth and as the co-founder of the Foundation for the Study of Hip hop Consciousness, a grassroots organization, which uses Hip hop as a tool for social change, it is frighteningly obvious. I’m in the trenches almost every day, tirelessly trying to reach high school drop outs, teenage parents, gang members, and other youth who face incredible hardships and challenges the likes of which only those who live and work directly with these conditions could understand...
Dome- 04/04


Did God Speak Through 2Pac Shakur?
God allowed Tupac to befriend two different friends in two different time periods. One on the East side and one on the West side of the world. The Bible regulary refers to the domain of God stemming from the East to the West (Matthew 24:27). This East West scenario symbolically represents the war for world domination that Satan wages with God in the Person of Jesus Christ (Revelation 12:7-12) ....
01/04


Davey D on Democracy Now-Police Surveillance and Hip Hop
Now, if we are surveiling hip hop artists the question comes, you have to ask is, how much crime - because the reason why you're surveiling these artists is there must be some sort of laws that they're breaking -- So how much crime is taking place in hip hop in relationship to crime in general? You know, Are P Diddy or Jay Z, running drug cartels? And if you surveil them and you somehow take them off the scene, will drugs in the community stop? .....
by Davey D & Amy Goodman- 04/04


Rap Rage REDvolution
"There is an unwillingness to give Native American artists credit for expressing, really, what hip-hop is supposed to be about: the music and the heritage of the people who present it," says Davey D. Cook, host of Pacifica Radio's Hard Knock program and the authoritative hip-hop site DaveyD.com. "If an artist like Litefoot doesn't come out with a song that has a James Brown sample or an 'Apache' bassline, people aren't trying to hear it," he says, appreciating the ironic name of the Incredible Bongo Band's classic breakbeat. Regardless, he's started spinning REDvolution, Litefoot's forthcoming, 11th album.... ....
by Cristina Verán 04/04


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