SubscribeIntelligence Squared and Google+ team up to host a interesting debate on Hip-hop with some notable guest. Hosted in London and on Google Hangouts at 26 June 2012 / 19:00 UK time
The site doesn't say who is for or against but you can guess.
This June, Intelligence Squared and Google team up for a never-before-seen global debate on hip-hop.
Some of the Speakers include;
Shaun Bailey – Prime Minster of the UK, David Cameron's adviser on youth and crime
Estelle - Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter (via Google+ Hangout)
dream hampton - American hip-hop journalist, cultural critic and film-maker
Jesse Jackson - Civil rights activist, Baptist minister and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
KRS-One - Hip-hop pioneer, record producer and activist
Jaron Lanier - American computer scientist, virtual reality pioneer and musician
P.J. O'Rourke - American political satirist and author (via Google+ Hangout)
?uestlove - Co-founder of Grammy Award winning band The Roots, DJ, music journalist and producer (via Google+ Hangout)
Q-Tip - American rapper, producer and frontman of iconic hip-hop act A Tribe Called Quest (via Google+ Hangout)
Tricia Rose - Brown University Professor and author of the groundbreaking books on hip-hop: Black Noise and Hip Hop Wars
Tony Sewell - CEO of the charity Generating Genius
Slaughterhouse - Rap supergroup made up of Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joel Ortiz, and Royce Da 5'9 (via Google+ Hangout)
Isiah Thomas - Former top 50 NBA basketball player
Live tickets
http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=13569
Google +
https://plus.google.com/107841648304854245302/about
Youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/versusdebates?feature=watch
Hope I don't miss this!
Updated Live link to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/versusdebates/versus
Its very choppy for me with the occasional error.
Update: Post debate it appeared most in the hall and online disagreed with the motion.
I watched most of the 2 hour + debate and there where strong arguments on both sides. Slaughterhouse angrily fell out half way through. There was a lot of focus on language and poetry for some reason but the panel was definitely well represented. Why didn't i have cool professor like Michael Eric Dyson when i was studying!
Hip-hop lives to fight another day.
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Eamon Courtenay
Attorney at Courtenay Coye law firm in BelizeEamon Courtenay is an Attorney-at-Law at Courtenay Coye LLP in Belize.
Courtenay was born in Belize and was admitted to practice in 1988.
He has held numerous positions including Senator, Leader of Government Business in the Senate, an Ambassador for Trade and Investment (Belize), Deputy Chairman at Belize Bank, Senator and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. In 2007, he was elected to the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. He has been an active Member of the Belize Negotiating Team on the Resolution of the Belize Guatemala Territorial Dispute since 1999.
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Michael Eric Dyson
Professor of sociology at Georgetown UniversityDr Michael Eric Dyson is professor of sociology at Georgetown University and an MSNBC political analyst.
A social activist, renowned orator, and ordained Baptist minister and prophetic preacher, he has enlivened public debate on social change across the media landscape. He is the author of 16 books including; Making
and his 2005 New York Times bestseller
Dyson has been cited by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, and as one of the 150 most powerful blacks in the nation, and has won many prestigious honours, including the American Book Award and the NAACP Image Award
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