Hip Hop and Politics
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Category:Government & Politics | Tags:hip, hop, politics
Created:on 2008-05-07 | Updated:on 2008-06-04
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Dissident Voice : Tellin’ It How It Is
Hip-Hop stands up for Sean Bell
more fromwww.dissidentvoice.org
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Obama Has Jay-Z on His IPod and The Moves To Prove It
Talk about a major Jay-Z move. People, we're talking about a seminal moment in the campaign, the merging of politics and pop culture: in which a presidential candidate -- a self-confessed hip-hop head and Jay-Z fan -- references a rap hit and a dance move.
more fromwww.washingtonpost.com
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Obama "I love the art of Hip-Hop;" Loses NH Primary
Senator Barack Obama is interested in utilizing rappers to educate youth with Hip-Hop, should he make it to the White House.
more fromallhiphop.com
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Obama Brushes Off Debate Jabs
Video footage of Obama brushing his shoulder off ala Jay Z
more fromwww.washingtonpost.com
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Davey D: Hip-hop artists standing up against police abuse - San Jose Mercury News
He seemed unaware of an open letter in February of that year from rapper Mos Def, calling for fellow artists to take a stand against police brutality. The result was the ambitious EP project "Hip-Hop for Respect," on which more than 25 major artists expressed their outrage.
more fromwww.mercurynews.com
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Barack Obama to guest on hip-hop album | musicradar.com
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama will make a guest appearance on Q-Tip’s new album.
more fromwww.musicradar.com
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Return of the great rap rebel - Chuck D
Public Enemy's 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, was a landmark in hip hop, as politically powerful as it was musically inventive. On its 20th anniversary, band leader Chuck D tells Sean O'Hagan why now is the right time to re-form
more frommusic.guardian.co.uk
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Israeli rapper Subliminal has built a music empire
The stocky 28-year-old has built a multiplatinum music empire on songs that tout Israeli pride, serving in the army, the hope for peace and, during the height of the second intifada, a hawkish stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is widely credited with being a founding force behind "Zionist hip-hop"
more fromwww.jewishjournal.com
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Slingshot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
more fromslingshothiphop.com
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Da Arabian MC's
Palestinian rap group
more fromwww.dampalestine.com
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Introducing hip-hop's songs of praise
Hip-hop has often been used to promote hate, violence, and greed. But now, says jerome taylor, it is being adopted by Britain's Muslim youth to publicise religious, pacifist, and progressive messages
more fromwww.independent.co.uk
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Dyson's email
Michael E Dyson
more fromcontact.georgetown.edu
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Hip-hop for serious times | SocialistWorker.org
The Roots have long represented the leading edge of "conscious" hip-hop. Rising Down seems to be a gathering of some of hip-hop's most political artists--from Common and Saigon to Mos Def and Talib Kweli.
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Yo Majesty
lesbian rap group with a real gansta style
more fromwww.myspace.com
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allAfrica.com: Rwanda: Hip Hop Dominating Music Industry
Hip hop music has been popular among local youth in Rwanda since the early 1980s due to widespread American influence.
Many Rwandan mainstream artists blend rap with ragga, R&B and dance-pop. In fact some artists generally classified as Rwandan Hip hop may not have much to do with hip hop in its strict sense.more fromallafrica.com
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Redefining the Hip Hop Generation
Keli Goff, the author of a new book on young independent black voters, discusses what the real role of hip hop should be.
more fromcampusprogress.org
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Hip-hop's political coverage has expanded
Hip-hop is taking another stab at politics this year. Mariah Carey, Russell Simmons, and Jay-Z have endorsed Barack Obama. Simmons launched Hip Hop Team Vote just before the Pennsylvania Democratic primary to register voters. Another Hip Hop Convention is scheduled for Las Vegas beginning July 28.
more fromwww.boston.com
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Hip Hop Journalist Davey D on Police Surveillance of Rappers, the National Hip Hop Convention and the 2004 Election
Recent reports in Miami and New York have revealed how the police in these cities have been closely monitoring the hip hop community in ways critics say are a throwback to COINTELPRO. We talk acclaimed hip hop journalist Davey D who hosts a daily show on Pacifica station KPFA
more fromwww.democracynow.org