Posts tagged hip hop

4 August 2008
video Ugandan hip-hop doc


via Boing Boing
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.
re: africa, changing the world, community, hip-hop, horizons of the possible, movies, music, video, war
Nate:
21 July 2008
video A bit of 1990s Kenyan public transit hip-hop


Look, Think, Stay Alive, by Jimmy Gathu, 1993 :: via Africanhiphop.com
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.
re: africa, hip-hop, kenya, public transit, safety, transport, video
Nate:
23 June 2008
embed Surreal & the Sound Providers, “The Place to Be”
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.
re: 3 12 120, community, hip-hop, music, performing arts, technology and change
Nate: