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New Yorker of a Certain Age – 98.7 Kiss FM WRKS NYC
There were two very informative and well done articles on the monumental shake up in urban radio in New York City two weeks ago. In fact, the title of this piece comes from the opening paragraph of Dan Charnas’ article “Long Kiss Goodbye” (see link below) Both Dan Charnas and Bill Stephney were on a hip-hop “Breaks” ...
Busta Rhymes & Friends 7/14/2012
2012′s Brooklyn Bodega Hip-Hop Festival was absolutely LEGENDARY! Some of the under-card artists included Ka, Chuuwee, $amhill and Fat Tony. For the main event, Busta started things up by performing many of his hits back to back with his main man Spliff Star by his side. His first guest appearance was from Lil’ Fame of Brownsville’ ...
Rakim at NJPAC August 16, 2012
Thursday August 16, 2012 was a beautiful day in the NYC tri-state area and Rakim was scheduled to perform at NJPAC. The opening act was b.FUNK a live hip-hop/funk band. They warmed up the audience for the man event by playing some of their original music. When it was time for Rakim to go on the crowd on the NJPAC lawn had more than doubled and when ...
Krush Groove Movie Discussion – NJPAC
Writer, director and hip-hop critic Nelson George hosted a screening and discussion of the 1985 hip-hop movie “Krush Groove” on March 1, 2013 at NJPAC. The panelists were Bill Stephney and Bill Adler. Stephney is a former DefJam president and executive producer of Public Enemy’s albums, while Adler was the head of publicity at Rush Management and ...
Is Hip-Hop History 4th Annual Conference Latino Panel
This year’s fourth annual “Is Hip-Hop Histor” conference began with a reception for “Uncle” Ralph McDaniels to recognize his 30th anniversary of hosting the first hip-hop video program Video Music Box. The keynote speaker was professor Don C. Sawyer III of Quinnipiac University whose topic was “Sociology of Hip-H ...

Jul

Busta Rhymes & Friends 7/14/2012

2012′s Brooklyn Bodega Hip-Hop Festival was absolutely LEGENDARY! Some of the under-card artists included Ka, Chuuwee, $amhill and Fat Tony. For the main event, Busta started things up by performing many of his hits back to back with his main man…Read more

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Jul

Toward a Culture-Emergent Hip-Hop Studies

This is a roundtable discussion held earlier this year at the EMP Conference at NYU in New York City. The moderator was Anthony Kwame Harrison and panelists: Ali Colleen Neff, Oliver Wang and Joe Schloss. Below are 3 videos of…Read more

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Jun

Women In Hip-Hop MoCADA Discussion March 2012

This video is from earlier this year, it’s hip-hop from womens’ perspectives, a discussion that was held at MoCADA in Brooklyn in March 2012. It’s interesting to hear the different opinions about Niki Minaj and the state of hip-hop. One…Read more

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Jun

White Park Harlem NYC 6/14/2012

I wish I could have gotten some video of the Jam In The Park up in Harlem but there was no filming so I didn’t want to step on anybody’s toes. Noisemaker Media will have footage of the park jams….Read more

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May

Uncle Ralph’s Video Music Box at MoCADA Brooklyn

BrooklynBodega and The Brooklyn Historical Society put on a (#BEI)Bodega Education Initiative on Thursday May 5th, 2012 to discuss the origins of Video Music Box and MoCADA and how they connected for “The Box That Rocks” exhibition at MoCADA running…Read more

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