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Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (Paperback)

admin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:14:47 +0000

From Publishers Weekly
Beneath the glitz and glut of mainstream hip-hop, there’s an underground movement of “conscious rap,” political angst and an anticapitalist ethos that would make even Bill Gates throw his hands in the air. That conscious rap is what Watkins, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, champions in this solid book. It’s an ambitious attempt to cover a culture that began in the late ’70s and is now an almost universal influence on global youth. Watkins wisely chooses to focus on what has not been said—like that it was a 43-year-old woman who produced hip-hop’s first hit, “Rapper’s Delight,” or that hip-hop lit is one of the fastest-growing markets in book publishing. He tells his version of hip-hop’s history in lyrical prose, often mirroring the rhythms and wordplay of the music he’s discussing. He doesn’t assert an overt thesis, but it’s clear he believes that the more conscious, political hip-hop (think Common instead of Fifty C (more…)

Dance off the Inches: Hip Hop Party

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:25:53 +0000

Getting Fit Doesn’t Have To Feel Like Work. Anyone can dance off the inches we’ve made it easy. Just 10 moves are all you need to dance this hip hop routine and we ll show you how. No matter what your age or fitness level, you can have a great time while dancing your way into great shape. You ll want to do this workout because it s FUN and that s the secret. The more you do it, the more inches you ll lose. It s that simple. Losing inches has never been so easy! Welcome to Dance Off the Inches Hip Hop Party. This fun and funky dance workout will help you melt calories plus tone and tighten your abs. We all know that dance is an effective way to slim down, but here you get an extra bonus: the motion used in hip hop dance is known for developing unparalleled flat, sleek abs without crunches! Who doesn’t love that? For this program, dancer Jennifer Galardi has created a routine using three different styles of hip hop that will have you losing inches, gaining confidence, fe (more…)

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop–and Why It Matters (Paperback)

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:55:42 +0000

Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and ’hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining with a critical eye because, as scholar and cultural critic Tricia Rose argues, hip-hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States. In The Hip-Hop Wars, Rose explores the most crucial issues underlying the polarized claims on each side of the debate: Does hip-hop cause violence, or merely reflect a violent ghetto culture? Is hip-hop sexist, or are its detractors simply anti-sex? Does the portrayal of black culture in hip-hop undermine black advancement? A potent exploration of a divisive and important subject, The Hip-Hop Wars concludes with a call for the regalvanization of the progressive and creative heart of hip-hop. What Rose calls for is not a sanitized vision of the form, but o (more…)

Dr. Dre Sues Death Row Records

admin — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:46:04 +0000

Producer/rapper Dr. Dre has just filed a lawsuit against Death Row Records/WIDEawake Entertainment since he has yet to receive money from his album The Chronic in over 14 years.
Upon leaving Death Row Records in the mid-nineties Dr. Dre was no longer cut in on any of The Chronic’s profits. Even when the album was re-released last year as The Chronic Re-Lit he did not receive any kind of payment from the label.

“When it came to paying artist royalties and honoring limits on Dr. Dre recordings that could be released, the ‘new’ Death Row Records, to quote our client, ‘forgot about Dre,’” Howard King, Dr. Dre’s attorney, said in a statement. “This lawsuit will make sure they remember.”

Dr. Dre also claims that WIDEawake Entertainment, the company that bought Death Row Records, released The Chronic Re-Lit without his consent and that the company profited greatly from the re-release. Dr. Dre is suing for at least $75,000.

Death Row Records/WIDEawake Entertainment have yet to comment on the lawsuit.

Hip Hop Hits

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:46:15 +0000

Packed with 7 #1 hits from the day, Hip Hop Hits runs the dial from gangsta rap to West Coast hip hop andJamaican roots rap to hip-pop, making for one phatcompilation of the hip hop genre.We’ve got the biggest hits from the late 80s through2001 including Just Coolin , Gangsta ‘s Paradise, Whoomp(There It Is), Country Grammar and Shoop. Featuredartists are Nelly, Naughty By Nature, Ice Cube, 2 LiveCrew, De La Soul, Queen Latifah and Method Manfeaturing Mary J. Blige. It’s an ultimate CD of hip hopmusic sure to get the party started.

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NEW 2 KANYE STRONGER SHUTTER SHADES HIP HOP SUNGLASSES BLACK AND WHITE

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:56:30 +0000

Has anyone ever told you that you are going through life with blinders on? Well, now you can tell them “They are not blinders, they are shutters!” These shutter shades have been made one of the hottest MUST HAVES this year by Kanye West and his global hit video “Stronger”. Stars like Paris and fashionistas from New York to L.A. are sporting these sturdy, high quality, and oh so cool sunglasses everywhere from the nightclubs to the mega concerts. Leave it to Kanye to start yet another hot fashion explosion. Get them while you can, these are going fast, fast, fast!

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Hip Hop Domo Domo-Kun White T-Shirt

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:41:27 +0000

Domo Kun is the star on this white T-shirt showing off all his bling on this Hip Hop Domo shirt. Enhance your own street cred with Domo in your crew.
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Totally Hip Hop

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:56:21 +0000

No description for this product could be found, but have a look over at Amazon for reviews and other information.

Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:20:43 +0000

Many good books have been written about the history of hip-hop music and the generation that nurtured it. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop ranks among the best. Jeff Chang covers the music–from its Jamaican roots in the late 1960s to its birth in the Bronx; its eventual explosion from underground to the American mainstream–with style, including DJs, MCs, b-boys, graffiti art, Black Nationalism, groundbreaking singles and albums, and the street parties that gave rise to a genuine movement. But the book is about more than beats and rhymes. What distinguishes his book from the pack is Chang’s examination of how hip-hop has shaped not only pop music, but American history and culture over the past 30 years. He shows how events such as urban flight, race riots, neighborhood reclamation projects, gang warfare in the Bronx and Los Angeles, and grassroots movements that influenced political agendas are as integral a part of the hip-hop story as the music itself. He also (more…)

Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)

admin — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:46:56 +0000

Boston Globe “[Bradley] lays out a nuanced, academically rigorous argument that the best hip-hop deserves attention as genuine artistry…He traces the word rhythm from the Greek rheo, or flow. Biggie had flow; Jay-Z has flow. For an English professor, Adam Bradley got some flow of his own.”Dallas Morning News “Excellent…Where so many hip-hop studies lean heavily on politics and sociology, Book of Rhymes is a welcome and thorough exploration of rap aesthetics that isn’t afraid to be learned.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “As comfortable in the company of Jay-Z as he is with John Donne, Adam Bradley is a visionary critic, skillful and wise. His Book of Rhymes is a tour de force, brilliantly renovating hip hop criticism as he rescues the forgotten vanguard of American poetry.” Cornel West “Adam Bradley’s Book of Rhymes is a marvelous exploration into the poetic genius of rap and the cultural gravity of Hip Hop. His analysis is subtle, sophisticate (more…)