SubscribeJazzy Jeff Jazz Cafe Documentary
A must watch. We were there in person and this video does partially convey the feeling in the room.
Jeff is an old-school professional who keeps it real.
Video also available here
Debate:Hip-hop on trial:Hip-hop doesn't enhance society, it degrades it
Intelligence 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.
Agree
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.
Disagree
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
Classic Blast: RHKP
Redhead Kingpin (and the FBI) had a few great hits .
This was my favorite. Combining classic rap with New Jack Swing
From the 1989 album “Shade of Red”
Shade of Red: Redhead Kingpin: MusicMix: Gas Face along with DJ Greengiant
Great mix showing how composer and producer Galt MacDermot has influenced hip-hop
Watch the trailer for the upcoming movie ..
Read more, Via Egotripland.
MOS DUB - Reggae and Yasin Bey
DUB KWELI
This is an amazing mix I came across some time back. It mixes Talib Kweli lyrics with Dub reggae. It sounds clean like a studio album and came in 2010. Produced by Max Tannone, who also made a few other great mix/mashups, most notably one with Mos Def and more Dub reggae (my favorite, which I'll post too) .
Listen!
Talib Kweli @HMV Forum, London
Talib Kweli has been a king of New York hip-hop who has an expansive international audience for over fifteen years. Kweli’s work with Mos Def on 'Black Star' (1998) still stands as one of hip-hop’s premiere expressions of truth. On 'Train of Thought',Kweli teamed up with Hi-Tek to form Reflection Eternal, a virtuoso hip-hop duo that continues to wow audiences and critics alike. In 2007, Kweli and DJ/Producer/MC Madlib gave their fans 'Liberation' - originally released free on the internet - an album that was filled with their joint love of the music they make and the respect their fans give them.
Website:http://www.yearoftheblacksmith.com/
Tickets to the show £26.75 and £44.75 Available here and from other resellers
http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/event/1F00478787428FD5?
Gutter Rainbows: Parental Advisory: Talib Kweli: Music9-17 Highgate Road
NW5 1JY
London
R.I.P. Heavy D….
Our old school boys are dropping liek flies.
i loved Heavy early 80’s flow. The sound was unmistakable. He was a classic artist.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/heavy-d-dead-at-44-20111108
My favorite videos are pasted below.
Heavy D & The Boyz - we got our own thang (12'' Mix) (1989)
Heavy D & The Boyz - Somebody For Me
Heavy D & The Boyz - Nuttin' But Love
Diggity Das EFX @ Jazz Cafe, London
Look like the Hit Squad have realized how much Euros are worth. Following on from the EPMD show, now its DAS EFX turn.
the blurb
SUNDAY 9TH OCTOBER
TICKETS £15 IN ADVANCE
DOORS FROM 7:00PM
“Debut jazz cafe show for legendary 90’s hip-hop group”
Das EFX is an American hip hop duo. It consists of emcees SKOOB & KRAZY DRAYZY, They rose to popularity in the early 1990s due to their affiliation with EPMD's Hit Squad. The duo gained critical and commercial fame with the release of their landmark debut album, Dead Serious, which highlighted their unusual rapping style which they nicknamed "sewage". Dead Serious went platinum and its lead single, "They Want EFX," reached the top ten on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart, the Top 40 on the Billboard.
As their career progressed, however, Das EFX's once-distinctive and unique lyrical delivery became more commonplace as other artists, including a young Jay-Z, imitated it. Derailed by the popularity of their own style, the duo slowed down their fast-paced flow, eliminated the iggedy suffix and downplayed their cartoonish content on their second album, Straight Up Sewaside.
The rest is history...
Tickets available here.
Dead Serious: Das Efx: Music
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