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Iggy Azalea in Steve Aoki’s “Beat Down.”
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Underrated 80s-90s hip hop by Renegade Soundwave. This stuff is starting to sound obsolete-fresh to me these days.
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Would love Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto to produce some of today’s hip hop like Iggy Azalea or something.
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For the projection aspect, a San Diego company called AV Concepts used a variation of a visual effect that was discovered in the 19th century, known as Pepper’s Ghost.
Though the projected image has been widely described as a “hologram,” it is a 2-D image and not a hologram, which is 3-D.
The effect was first used in an 1862 dramatization of Charles Dickens’ novella “The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain,” staged at the Royal Polytechnic Institute in London, according to Jim Steinmeyer, an illusion designer who has written extensively about the history of his craft, including Pepper’s Ghost.Tupac Shakur ‘Hologram,’ Seen at Coachella, May Go on Tour - WSJ.com
Best piece of information about Hologram Tupac! Holo Tupac is a Pepper’s Ghost, digital but Victorian through and through.
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Forget that she’s making one of the most overt engagements of race in recent memory (Jay-Z noted “If you escaped what I escaped, you’d be in Paris getting fucked up, too” on a song about the incongruity of wealthy black men in Paris, and it peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100 despite no DJ being able to say its full name, which, wow) into a bloodless Kidz Bop track: Perry can’t figure out flows that virtually anyone who has heard the song more than once has down pat, doesn’t know the words, and sounds like she’s never spoken English before at some points. If you’re going to do SEO rap and traffic in appropriation, Katy, you could at least aim for a level of quality control above “reprehensibly abysmal.
Oh man. I don’t know which is more delicious: watching Katy Perry cover “Niggas in Paris” before reading this indignation piece or after reading it. It’s the red pill vs the blue pill in The Matrix, taking the bite of the apple in the Garden of Eden. You can only choose one.
Google “Katy Perry Niggas in Paris” for a video because the one embedded at the linked page has been removed from YouTube.
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“I wear Dockers,” he said, though he was clad in baggy gray sweatpants and a white t-shirt. “They’re comfortable. I’m a comfortable man.” Pause. “Dockers is a mature jean. You can wear it anywhere.” Pause. “Eh, plus, I just love Dockers.”
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“Can I still beatbox?” he asked in an as-if manner before demonstrating: “Bip pra kik bidda kkik kkik.”
Biz Markie, Dockers Team Up - WSJ.com
Aww, WSJ put Biz on the spot about shilling for Dockers. Leave the beatboxin’ teddybear alone, evil Murdoch publication!
Posted on April 24, 2011 with 1 note
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Thirty years ago, Mr. Colon — better known as the B-boy, or break dancer, Crazy Legs — propelled hip-hop culture to the world stage as a member of the seminal dance troupe known as the Rock Steady Crew. Today, he remains a global ambassador for B-boying, and his kitchen here is the embassy.
Webcast by a Hip-Hopper Who Cooks - NYTimes.com
Grey Lady, sometimes, you are so fucking white. Hip-Hopper? What, are we talking about? Frogs?
And a note to the copy desk: this headline is unbelievably weaksauce I can’t stand it.
Please, put this shit behind your paywall where I won’t see it.
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In order to form the list, we followed the same procedures we use to calculate the list of the world’s billionaires (released today) — valuing current holdings, looking at past earnings, leafing through financial documents and talking to a bevy of analysts, attorneys, managers and other industry players to find the nitty-gritty details. We considered only performers, which is why hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons isn’t on this list.
Forbes’ list of hip hop’s top 5 earners, a.k.a. Forbes does not care about black people. The magazine got a shaggy-haired (trying so hard not to say “hipster”) white dude to use the above methodology to come up with a list of top 5 richest hip hop performers. Is this not slumming at its worst?
Who declared the Obama presidency a post-racial America? Because you were so wrong. Racism (and sexism) is like a zombie. So is capitalism. They’ve been killed so many times. Forbes is the baby of this zombie union, basically. (Funny, the reimagining of Dawn of the Dead by Zach Snyder has Mekhi Phifer as a dad of a zombie baby born in a shopping mall.)
Forbes isn’t a music mag or an official treatise on race relations in America so it’s not beholden to those topics, but can’t they cover race in a way that doesn’t smack of rich, white man superiority-anxiety? The list is kept to only five names instead of the usual ten due to “lack of information on the fortunes under 100 million.” Why can’t there be 10 rich hip hop performers? If they interviewed analysts, attorneys, managers, etc. for “nitty gritty details” why not ask them about the under $100M? Truncating the list diminishes its significance in the context of Forbes, who thrives on publishing such lists. Who’s to say making money in hip hop is less honorable or pays cents on the dollar compared to what rich corporate men do for their cheddar? Considering this is, I’m pretty certain, an online only piece speaks a great deal about Forbes’ attitude.
The piece is written by a guy whose appreciation of Jay-Z smacks of tokenism. Yes, caucasian hipsters can appreciate hip hop for reals, but there’s always a touch of patting oneself on the back and treating it as outsider music—outsider to the hipster race as well as musical genre. This is why ironic folk/indie rock covers of hip hop songs get so popular. Additionally, this piece is specifically promoting shaggy coiff’s upcoming book on Jay-Z. Were there no illustrious occasions such as this, would Forbes run a list of possibly thuggish black dudes who got rich and didn’t die trying?
This Forbes piece proves even in post-racial America, the marriage between racial equality and capitalism is at best one with separate but equal beds. Articles like these are just beards hiding the economic anti-miscegenation prevalent amongst the richest and whitest of men.
FYI, I love white people, dudes, hip hop, and money. If you were wondering what my bias is in regarding to this topic.
Posted on March 11, 2011 with 1 note
Source: blogs.forbes.com
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Cover of Lil’ Kim’s Black Friday mixtape, wherein Nicki Minaj is decapitated. I love this feud. Nicki Minaj gets a lot of buzz but ultimately, Pink Friday was a total bust compared to her phenomenal, possessed feature on Kanye West’s “Monster.” I can’t wait to hear Black Friday. Vintage Kim is the best, but I did enjoy the Ms. G.O.A.T. mixtape.
(Image via Vulture)
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In the popular vernacular, it was a butt dial, the bane of many a chagrined cell phone user. This time, it led to a frantic 911 call from a wife. Soon, more than 30 gun-toting officers converged on Carleton Washburne School, which also houses the District 36 offices where the man works.
“He was listening to music and he had, I don’t know, hip-hop … or music like that, where there were lyrics that were gangster-like,” explained Mark Friedman, interim co-superintendent of District 36. “So there were lyrics on the radio as he was driving home, and she listened to it and became concerned.”
Butt-dialing mistake sends SWAT team to Winnetka school - Chicago Tribune
In this case it’s not 911 that’s a joke. Whoever the joke is, it’s one of the greatest misunderstandings in history that highlights a cultural bias.
Posted on January 23, 2011 with 1 note
Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
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