Posts tagged: hip-hop
- Krista Thompson “Of Shine, Bling, and Bixels” and thoughts on class and aesthetics
- For the record: I now want to be besties with Krista Thompson, the 2009 winner of the David C. Driskell Prize and Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Her recent High Museum lecture, “Of Shine, Bling and Bixels: Toward a Post-Soul Art History,” blew me away with its analysis of contemporary artist Kehinde [...] [13 Mar 2010]
- Qusai’s “The Job”: A sample of Saudi hip-hop
- Lyrics are in English and Arabic. His English verse is kind of wack, but interesting for its look at contemporary Saudi culture and economy. I can’t judge his Arabic verse, because I’m monolingual like that. But that beat? Lovin’ it. Learn more about Qusai on his MySpace page. [Via Saudi Jeans.] [4 Feb 2010]
- On digging in the crates
- My folks don’t have actual crates, but they do have a pretty dope collection of 1970s vinyl albums. I got into a couple of Parliament albums my dad owned. And I just about wore out my dad’s copy of James Brown’s “Hot Pants.” Beyond that, however, I never appreciated these records growing up. As [...] [29 Nov 2009]
- Jay Smooth on Ashley Dupri and the Music Biz
- Original post [17 Mar 2008]
- GlobalGrind.com = A failure about to happen
- Yes, I am a few days late commenting on this. When I first wrote about GlobalGrind.com, it was in its alpha phase as a start page geared towards the hip-hop generation. You could search pre-existing content and feeds or add your own to the GlobalGrind.com ecosystem. Think NetVibes, but with curated content that had a hip-hop perspective. [...] [15 Jan 2008]