Do you love Hip Hop music, funky beats, and boomin’ rhythms that make your backbone slide? I personally love a dope track you can nod your head to non-stop, but what if you could not physically hear your favorite joints anymore? Would you still dance? Would you socially be afraid to interact with other heads? Here is a solid story about our fellow B-Boys and B-Girl with hearing disabilities who can’t stop; won’t stop and keep on!
20 years ago from the very start, The Arsenio Hall Show had its target audience of Urban America and blasted through the doors of many young people of all races.The Hip Hop culture should never forget the amount of respect Arsenio Hall gave to the streets of America.
Most people are convinced rap music fell deeply in love with the fast and the furious money the mainstream has to offer. They’re both engaged to get married and the killer is their minister.
I’ve been told by many to wrap a black band around my left bicep because there has been a death in our family. A sad day has come and gone. An assassination has occurred. It’s a cold-blooded homicide, and what makes it worse is that the killer is still at large!
This is my response to the racial fallout over Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. I have read and responded to several articles online, and I felt I should recreate my comments as a post for our audience.
We have quite a few prestigious competitions, battles and tournaments worldwide for Hip Hop. For B-Boys we have the grandest tournament, Battle of the Year. For DJ turntablism there is the hard earned DMC World DJ Championships, and for MCs there were many that have come and gone like the historic New Music Seminar. Today, we now have the million dollar prize up for grabs at the brand new World Series of Hip Hop in Atlanta, Georgia, September 27, 2008.
Fresh on YouTube, care of ThudRumble.com, we have turntablists QBert and Rafik having fun with Scratch Drumming. The two infamous DJs wreck shop by “doing an old school trick where they alternate between each other at the ends of each measure.” Simply said, these pros are doing what they always do in their zone when rocking the beats. This video was shot while chillin’ between takes of the new upcoming DVD Scratchlopedia Breaktannica.
A true Graff Writer is an artist masked by the alter ego of a character-empowered pseudonym. They live and run for the thrill seeking life of blazing their identity to the world with the same prime-time energy as a sign in Times Square. They deliver their craft as harbingers, poets, messengers, apostles, activists, visionaries, prophets, shock jocks, romantics, and editorialists. No matter what they create, where they bomb, or how they burn their hieroglyphics, Graff Writers ultimately prize the game in the name of fame.
Minstrel shows have long since died out, or so it seems. I think they’ve just taken on a new form in Hip Hop music.
