Culture Making items tagged hip-hop

Ugandan hip-hop doc

2008-11-21T15:30:46Z

Nate: “Trailer for "Diamonds in the Rough," a documentary about anti-war and -corruption themed hip-hop in Uganda. Looks fascinating and inspiring, though I'm just a tad troubled that, as with Wim Winders' wonderful "Buena Vista Social Club" film, the transcendent climax involves the musicians from the developing world making a triumphant and adulatory tour in the West.”

via Boing Boing

A bit of 1990s Kenyan public transit hip-hop

2008-11-21T15:30:46Z

Nate: “There's quite a lot of cultural info and aspiration packed into this video. I'm not sure whether its plea for greater public safety fell, or would fall, on the young men who work for Nairobi's privately-provided public transit.”

Look, Think, Stay Alive, by Jimmy Gathu, 1993 :: via Africanhiphop.com

Surreal & the Sound Providers, “The Place to Be”

2008-11-21T15:30:46Z

Nate: “Suggested soundtrack for Chapter 15 of Culture Making: "The 3, the 12, and the 120." About the close partnership of creating a new cultural good. And as with much pleasing hip-hop, the song is about the song.”