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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Phat Farm and Hip Hop Clothing
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
Bird Flu Disease Pandemic
Bird Flu Pandemic
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Wow I just read an article in a local UK newspaper which says there is set to be a bird flu pandemic. It is estimated that 1/4 of the world could catch it and that something like this comes around every 40 years or so.
Now that is worrying anyway back to the hip hop news I have just added some new G-unit hoodies to my store which will be selling fast so hurry.
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Sunday, March 13, 2005
Wow I just read an article in a local UK newspaper which says there is set to be a bird flu pandemic. It is estimated that 1/4 of the world could catch it and that something like this comes around every 40 years or so.
Now that is worrying anyway back to the hip hop news I have just added some new G-unit hoodies to my store which will be selling fast so hurry.
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For all of your hip hop needs.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Chris Rock praised
When Oscar host Chris Rock when he arrived at the Vanity Fair party, pals Usher and Jay-Z were quick to heap praise on his performance. "The show had life, comedy, fashion," Usher told The New York Daily News. "It was forward-moving for everyone." Jay added, "Brooklyn was in the building. That's the number one reason it worked."
Friday, March 11, 2005
Cheap Fubu Phat Farm Ecko Sean John
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Rocawear launches new clothing line
Roc-A-Wear has launched two new lines of clothing.
Rocawear Red Label consists of shirts & denim, which are less baggy, while Wash House consists of hand finished vintage denim, which will be available at high end retailers.
"We´re trying to take over every demographic to ensure that we are the best at everything," Dame Dash said.
Rocawear Red Label consists of shirts & denim, which are less baggy, while Wash House consists of hand finished vintage denim, which will be available at high end retailers.
"We´re trying to take over every demographic to ensure that we are the best at everything," Dame Dash said.
1st Ever Hip Hop Sighting
Jamaican born DJ Kool Herc moved to New York in the late 1960's and brought with him the Jamaican tradition of "toasting", which involved reciting improvised rhymes over instrumental sections of reggae records. He used twin turntables and cut back and forth between two seperate records to create a new sound. He would chant things like "Throw your hands in the air/And wave'em like ya just don't care!". This type of crowd pleaser was known as "rapping" to the crowd. At that time rap was not yet known as 'rap' but called 'MCing'. He later turned his attention to DJing and let two friends Coke La Rock and (the orginial) Clark Kent handle the mic. This was rap music's first MC team. They became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids.
Grand Wizard Theodore was the first DJ to scratch which he discovered accidently. Playing his music too loud during a practice session, while his mother was yelling, he held back the record and it began to move back and forth in the earphones. He went on to experiment with different records trying to create a sound where people could understand it. He has since been awarded by the International Turntable Foundation for creating the scratch.
"Rappers Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang was one of the first rap recordings. It became a huge international hit and went on to become the best selling 12inch record ever, selling over 2 million copies world wide. This is where the term "hip hop" was coined. They used beats and base lines from the disco track "Good Times".
Utilizing beats from a wide variety of sources such as old gospel, jazz, James Brown/Motown soul, funk, disco, drum machines, and remixing them became known as sampling - the musical core of hip hop.
Grand Wizard Theodore was the first DJ to scratch which he discovered accidently. Playing his music too loud during a practice session, while his mother was yelling, he held back the record and it began to move back and forth in the earphones. He went on to experiment with different records trying to create a sound where people could understand it. He has since been awarded by the International Turntable Foundation for creating the scratch.
"Rappers Delight" by the Sugar Hill Gang was one of the first rap recordings. It became a huge international hit and went on to become the best selling 12inch record ever, selling over 2 million copies world wide. This is where the term "hip hop" was coined. They used beats and base lines from the disco track "Good Times".
Utilizing beats from a wide variety of sources such as old gospel, jazz, James Brown/Motown soul, funk, disco, drum machines, and remixing them became known as sampling - the musical core of hip hop.
Hip Hop Against Racist war
Recently, John Isenhour, Contributing Writer for Up & Coming Weekly had a chance to speak with Brian Proffitt, co-founder of Hip-Hop Against Racist War (HHARW), a Triangle-based organization that will be hosting a concert March 18th as part of the peace rally.
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U&C: What is Hip-Hop Against Racist War?
Proffitt: Hip Hop Against Racist War is a network of young activists that have been together for the past few years. It's folks who are organizers, performers, teachers, students, people from a lot of different areas of society. Our goal is to bring hip-hop to politics and politics to hip-hop in a real explicit way.
U&C: What is HHARW's primary mission?
Proffitt: We're mostly a network of organizers these days that try to get together to put on community events to raise awareness about things that are going on. Usually they are connected with one of these big events.
U&C: Why use hip-hop to achieve those goals?
Proffitt: We believe hip-hop can be a tool in movements that challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression of people-all the nasty stuff we see in the world today. Hip-hop has been resistant from its start. It was started by poor, working class black people and Puerto Ricans in New York as a way to both fight back and to celebrate what people were going through in the Bronx, especially. Hip-hop has always been a place where lots of different people can come together; it's a place where people can use their creativity to challenge the status-quo.
U&C: What has been HHARW's biggest success so far?
Proffitt: I would give a couple. One would be bringing a certain character and flavor to these larger demonstrations and mobilizations that we've participated in. I think we've gotten some young people involved in activism in ways they might not have previously been. We've begun to carve out a space in movements and challenge the lack of presence of young people, particularly young people of color.
U&C: How did HHARW become involved in the March rally?
Proffitt: We've been involved in the anti-war movement in North Carolina since September 11th. We started organizing against incidents of racism at North Carolina State and using this model of hip-hop as a tool, and when the anti-war movement started, we were able to mobilize our vision easily into that as well.
U&C: What do you expect from the March 18th show?
Proffitt: Our hope is that it might involve more people from the Fayetteville community that might not have come to the rally otherwise, and we want to have fun.
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U&C: What is Hip-Hop Against Racist War?
Proffitt: Hip Hop Against Racist War is a network of young activists that have been together for the past few years. It's folks who are organizers, performers, teachers, students, people from a lot of different areas of society. Our goal is to bring hip-hop to politics and politics to hip-hop in a real explicit way.
U&C: What is HHARW's primary mission?
Proffitt: We're mostly a network of organizers these days that try to get together to put on community events to raise awareness about things that are going on. Usually they are connected with one of these big events.
U&C: Why use hip-hop to achieve those goals?
Proffitt: We believe hip-hop can be a tool in movements that challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, oppression of people-all the nasty stuff we see in the world today. Hip-hop has been resistant from its start. It was started by poor, working class black people and Puerto Ricans in New York as a way to both fight back and to celebrate what people were going through in the Bronx, especially. Hip-hop has always been a place where lots of different people can come together; it's a place where people can use their creativity to challenge the status-quo.
U&C: What has been HHARW's biggest success so far?
Proffitt: I would give a couple. One would be bringing a certain character and flavor to these larger demonstrations and mobilizations that we've participated in. I think we've gotten some young people involved in activism in ways they might not have previously been. We've begun to carve out a space in movements and challenge the lack of presence of young people, particularly young people of color.
U&C: How did HHARW become involved in the March rally?
Proffitt: We've been involved in the anti-war movement in North Carolina since September 11th. We started organizing against incidents of racism at North Carolina State and using this model of hip-hop as a tool, and when the anti-war movement started, we were able to mobilize our vision easily into that as well.
U&C: What do you expect from the March 18th show?
Proffitt: Our hope is that it might involve more people from the Fayetteville community that might not have come to the rally otherwise, and we want to have fun.