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Beat This: A Hip-Hop History is a 1984 BBC documentary film about hip-hop culture, directed by Dick Fontaine. [1] The cast includes Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc — the film includes footage from Herc's original dance parties — The Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Brim Fuentes, and The Dynamic Rockers. [2]
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.. The book features portraits of DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, among others, and is based on numerous interviews with graffiti artists, gang members, DJs, rappers, and hip hop activists.
Hip-hop has grown from a party in a South Bronx basement to a global soundtrack over its 47-year run. And as it approaches the 50-year mark, some of the genre’s originators have made it their ...
Fight the Power: How Hip-Hop Changed the World is a 2023 BBC Studios television documentary production in collaboration with PBS, presented by Chuck D of Public Enemy.It was broadcast as a four-part miniseries starting in late January 2023 on BBC Studios' BBC2, with a series run through Black History Month in February 2023. [2]
In a way it’s kind of like a hip-hop story more than a pop story: ‘I come from nothing, I’ve been working my ass off, and whoever I hand this to better not f— it up.’”
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop is an American docuseries co-produced by Carri Twigg, Raeshem Nijhon, dream hampton, [a] and Hannah Beachler.The four-part series is a comprehensive history of the role of women in hip-hop from the genre's inception to present day.