A number of Hip-Hop stars are objecting to the creation of a new Hip-Hop Museum in Harlem. Their objection is not rooted in the potential presentation of this history, or in the quality of any personal portrayal, it is money. These are past stars from the very beginnings of Hip-Hop that have fallen on hard times and feel that the new museum should pay them for their stories.
There are many reasons to like JJC’s “We Are Africans”; a positive, inclusive and unhesitatingly pan-Africanist message, contributions from several rappers, including women rappers and a music video for the remix featuring the wonderful Femi Kuti.
Voted the 3rd Best Classical Moment of 2003 by the New York Times, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is by no means your average classical musician and composer.
My ‘brothers’ in England will tell you that Hip-hop and Rap music have legitimized use of the term “Nigger” among large sways of Black and non-Black people in America, and that we, too, in England should get with the program and throw off our shackles from the past.
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