Video: Punk/hiphop photog Glen E. Friedman interviewed by Paradigm Magazine
Snip from a wonderful interview by Paradigm Magazine with one of my favorite photographers (and people), Glen E. Friedman: Don’t care about what other people think about what you’re doing, if you’re...
View ArticleAfrika Bambaataa and Global Bass
How did Afrika Bambaataa's "Planet Rock" (1982) lead to the digital dancehall that is Global Bass? Don't miss Marcus Boon's primer on the international Global Bass scene, from DJ/Rupture to M.I.A to...
View ArticleWhen hip hop, science, and education collide
This is a sentence I never expected to read and it makes me insanely excited: "GZA had just finished an extraordinary round of meetings with physicists at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of...
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Wild Style: a special edition of The Hip Hop Family Tree
The cult-classic, Wild Style, represents the earliest marriage of the 4 key elements of Hip Hop on film. Endlessly sampled in songs and inspiring homage in many other media including advertising, and...
View ArticleKris Kross's Chris Kelly aka Mac Daddy, RIP
Chris "Mac Daddy" Kelly of Kris Kross has died. He was 34. Kris Kross's big hit, of course, was "Jump" from their 1992 album "All Krossed Out." And yes, they were the kids who wore their pants...
View ArticleHip-hop, trans people, and a glimpse of a hopeful future
Last week, influential hip-hop deejay Mister Cee resigned from New York radio station Hot 97 for fewer than 24 hours. Fabulously-named transgender vlogger Bimbo Winehouse had just published a recording...
View ArticleGZA of Wu-Tang Clan raps the Big Bang
Recorded during a lecture at the University of Toronto. Lyrics are included. Level of scientific accuracy is spectacular. I'm really looking forward to the release of the GZA's full physics and...
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Kosha Dillz Passover Playlist
Passover is coming! To get you into the mood for matzoh, America's latest cool Jew—rapper Kosha Dillz—(SoundCloud) has a Passover playlist to rock your noggin. This is not a musical rendition of the...
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How hip hop can teach you to code
Being the DJ's son has its perks. My dad always spun old and new school classics for my brother and I, so our music vocabulary was more advanced than our ages. I could recite verses from songs that...
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Watch this amazing father/daughter beatbox battle
Nicole Paris dominates, but clearly the beatbox talent is genetic. See many more clips on Paris's YouTube channel.
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Watch Ice Cube respond to Rap Genius interpretations of "Straight Outta Compton”
In honor of his new film, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, Ice Cube revisits the titular song by reacting to the lyric interpretations of Rap Genius. [YouTube, thanks Joe Sabia!]
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Physiology of "Bone Breaking" street dancing
My friends at Youth Radio interviewed a sports medicine physician, who used to dance with Cirque du Soleil, about the anatomy of "bone breaking," the incredible form of turf dancing where the...
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Byron Crawford's history of Dr. Dre is the best thing I've read on Medium
Dr. Dre Seriously. This history of Dr. Dre is WONDERFUL. Lonzo Williams would loan Dr. Dre money, not unlike how Combat Jack would loan a young Damon Dash money to take cabs, in the years...
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Watch NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" recreated inside Grand Theft Auto
AnimalRobot takes NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" into Grand Theft Auto V with GTAV's Rockstar Editor and Adobe Premiere. "Damn, that shit was dope." (YouTube)
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WATCH: These gymnastic Japanese breakdancers will leave you breathless
World of Dance just held their World Finals in Los Angeles, and the breakout team in the Youth competition brought insane levels of energy and breakdancing precision to win their division. Warning:...
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Pioneering hip-hop artist Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest has died
Malik Taylor, aka Phife Dawg, of pioneering hip-hop trio A Tribe Called Quest has died at age 45 from complications arising from diabetes. (more…)
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Oral history of Aerosmith and Run-DMC's "Walk This Way"
In 1986, Aerosmith and Run-DMC collaborated on a remake of the former's 1970s song "Walk This Way." Masterminded by producer Rick Rubin, then 22, the resulting jam was a gamechanger for both hip hop...
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Understand the rhyming style of great rappers
If you don't know, now you know. (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)
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Public Enemy action figures by Ed Piskor
Boing Boing comic artist Ed Piskor, creator of the stupendous Hip Hop Family Tree, designed this set of Public Enemy Action Figures! They're sculpted by Tomohiro Yasui and stand around 4" tall....
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Jaelyn the Alien definitely does not want to see your penis
Jaelyn the Alien, aka Baby J, says: "So this music video was inspired by a numerous amount of recent events that include random people on the internet (meaning instagram,twitter and SNAPCHAT users)...
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