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Rah Rah Records and Roast Productions where created by Producer and artist
|Carlos “ los Gigante” Powell a.k.a I.C.I.B Goldman. He is Co founder and owner Of Orama’s Records. As director of production he is responsible for production and engineering of all of Orama’s Releases to date. Rah Rah Records is a self-contained entity. The labels first release is “The Abacus” Slated to be dropped in Late 2010. “The Abacus is what all Hip Hop will be measure by.” |
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Lowkey performs at Rich Mix
| “One of the best lyricists in the Western Hemisphere” On December 12th Rich Mix will finally play host to UK rapper, musician, poet, playwright Lowkey. Rising to prominence at the age of 17 after proving victorious at a series of weekly open mic sessions in London’s Carnaby Street, the 23 year old (born Kareem Dennis) is proving himself to be a force within the UK Hip Hop battleground. Intelligent, intricate rhymes with a political slant elevate the half English/Iraqi above his peers – his mixtape CD series ‘Key to the Game’ attracted much critical acclaim and a large dedicated fanbase. Using his versatility as a weapon he is a proud member of rap group Poisonous Poets – Lowkey states “On a skills basis, I feel they are the five best rappers in the country…and I’m another one in my view.” He also features within the lineup of indie supergroup Mongrel – alongside member s and ex-members of the Arctic Monkeys and Babyshambles. With huge appearances at the Electric Proms, T in the Park, Glastonbury and the Sunrise Poetry Slam 2008 (where Lowkey was named the winner against 16 other poets) and with followers like Ms Dynamite, Benjamin Zephaniah, DJ Semtex and Latin-American underground lyricist and demigod Immortal Technique (with whom Lowkey collaborated with on this years’ ‘Voices of the Voiceless’)…Rich Mix is proud and excited to present Lowkey. http://www.richmix.org.uk/aandc_lowkey.htm |
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in the forum here at RHHF we have a lot of productive discussion on hip hop. Here was a beautiful comment posted by our new user Panther in response to a YouTube video entitled "Is Hip Hop Hurting The Black Community?":
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and here's his response: No, I don't think hip hop can be solely to blame for the portrayal of the "black community". I think it is a large melting pot of reasons. A lot of it is ignorance, conditioning to an ignorant form of living, and a lot of it is being pressured by our societal standards into fitting these stereotypes which have already been painted, even before hip hop music came out. I understand that many people from the black community try to live up to certain expectations which these "role model thugs" set, and it can cause a lot of problems, but where I live, I see just as many hispanics, asians, whites, etc. who do the same thing. The only reason why it may seem like there are more black people falling into that cycle is because there is more focus on them, both from the media and from North American society in general. It truly is a societal problem. True "hip hop" at it's essence does ANYTHI ... Read more » |
 source: Ever wonder when the day will come when rappers are not trying to bling with diamonds they spent their rent money to buy or balling in rented cars that will be towed away right after the video shoot is over? What about the day when Hip Hop artists take stands in their communities for something powerful, like fighting against racial oppression or for the respect of Black women? Well, Kansas City has an artist who embodies all of this in an unapologetic fashion. His name is Vigalantee, and his goal is to get hip hop artists to stop (in his words) "Bojangling" for chump change. He lives for the street, fights for the poor and runs his own business in a highly profitable fashion. He takes the word "hustle" to a whole different level and is teaching artists how to change the game in their favor. AOL Black Voices had a chance to talk with Vigalantee about his work. What is your name and where are you from? Roger M. Suggs, aka Vigalantee. I am from Kansas City, Kansas. You seem to feel that Hip Hop needs a transformation, what kind of transformatio ... Read more » |
 LatinRapper.com interviews an established b-boy, considering Latinos, Boricuas (puerto ricans) in particular, have made major contributions to Hip Hop. So to kick things off right, we get the 411 from none other than hip hop pioneer Mr. Wiggles. Born and raised in the South Bronx, and raised on Hip Hop during it's earliest years, Wiggles is a writer (graffiti artist), B-Boy (breakdancer), MC, popper and a practitioner of locking. You've seen him in the classics Beat Street and Wild Style, and his moves have graced videos like Usher's "My Way", Missy Elliot's "Work It" and Limp Bizkit's "Rollin". A member of the legendary Roc Steady Crew, Wiggles took time out to speak with LR about Hip Hop history and more. LatinRapper.com: How did you get your start in b-boying/breaking? I'm from the Bronx, and I was surrounded by both Rockers (Uprockers) and B Boys all my childhood, so I just followed what the older cats did in the streets, and my sista Wanda got me into Rockin (a more Latin dance style that was more vertical) Your graf work didn't pick up until a few years after you started rocking, how did you get involved with that? In the 70's I was so involved in anythi ... Read more » |
 OK, so this is a bit late, but i had a school project to formulate an argument against these two articles in my philosophy class and i thought i would share them. The following are (in order) Dawkins' original article (blue writing), LaSor's rebuttle (green writing), and my response (black writing): Gods and earthlings April 18, 2008 If we were visited by aliens from a distant planet, would we fall on our knees and worship them as gods? The difficulty of getting here from even our nearest neighbor, the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, constitutes a filter through which only beings with a technology so advanced as to be god-like (from our point of view) could pass. The capabilities and powers of our interstellar visitors would seem more magical to us than all the miracles of all the gods that have ever been imagined by priests or theologians, mullahs or rabbis, shamans or witch doctors. Arthur C. Clarke, who died last month, said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." If we could land a jumbo jet beside a medieval village, would we not be worshiped as gods? The technology of interstellar travel, and the scientific knowledge on which it would be based, are as far beyond us as our present-day knowledge surpasses that of Dark Age peasan
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This is a response to this article. this article can also be seen in the comments below the article itself: http://www.desihits.com/blog/article/vins-forecast-for-hip-hop-in-2009-20090101
| The REAL Hip Hop Forecast For 2009! I came to this site because I got a google alert about this article and while I somewhat agree with the focus on your article, I think if your forecast actually occurs we will see the final nail driven into hip hop's coffin. You see, 50 Cent, no matter what Eminem and Dr. Dre do, is a parasite. He feeds off the talent of other rappers and brings them down to his level by creating these unnecessary beefs that have proven off-putting for years. His ridiculous beefs with Nas and the Wu Tang Clan, for example, not only lead to him looking like a complete idiot and getting lyrically embarassed, it lead to unnecessary attention being paid on a beef that should have never existed and countless amounts of precious money, time and music to be wasted by all parties. Next up is Lil Wayne. While his last album sold a million dollars (and naturally some proof shows that his record label may have personally purchase a large amount of copies just to make it seem like he sold more than he did), this siphilitic creature has a more lukewarm following at the moment than you think. A much larger amount of people would ra ... Read more » |
 Gangster rap, or hardcore rap, is generally considered a subgenre of the larger category of rap music, which itself is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster rap is differentiable from other rap music in that it makes use of images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). According to the Encyclopedia explanation of gangster rap, the top four images associated with the genre are violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity. Gangster Rappers as Defining the Hip-Hop Social Group Hip-Hop’s Rejection of Inferior Social Group Status |
 According to dictionary.com, the main entry for the word drug is "a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being." So what is your definition of the word drug? For most people it has a negative connotation, contrary to the aforementioned definition. I have, for several months now, been researching this topic and through my research i have found only more overwhelming evidence supporting my case. Empirical evidence shows that there are more benefits than negative consequences of legalizing all drugs. Currently in the U.S., with our conservative drug policies, there is a steady increase in drug abuse. The White House Drug Policy reports a steady increase in illicit drug use among the overall U.S. population over a period of 22 years. In 1979, the percentage of U.S. citizens reporting illicit drug use was above 31%. In 2001 it was almost 42%, an increase of nearly 11%. (8) Leslie Iversen, a faculty member at the University of Oxford, recognizes the harm that cannabis sativa, also known as marijuana, does to the human body, but also claims that "there is a general consensus among medical and scientific experts that the health hazards of cannabis have been exaggerated." She continues by stating that in Europe, countries differ widely in their approach at drug reform, making examples of the Net ... Read more » |
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I came across an interesting forum discussion today. The topic was “Why don’t the majority of blacks support pure hip-hop?” As overly-discussed as this issue may be, I always find these debates not only informative, but entertaining at the same time.
|Some of the questions posted in response to the forum were “What do you consider pure hip-hop?” by several individuals, and “Is this a subliminal way to bash the mainstream?” by others. Though I believe that there is no one answer to this question, I will share my sentiments nonetheless. Google has several definitions for the word pure listed. Depending on sentence context, pure means “without flaws or sins,” “free from extraneous elements,” and the list goes on. When I think of something that is pure [from a broad perspective] I think of something that is innocent, clean, organic or natural. When it comes to hip-hop, I don’t think using the term “pure” to describe it at its current state is appropriate; whether underground or mainstream. When a child is born he is said to be pure because his mind and soul has not been infiltrated by the world’s ills, and I believe hip-hop as a culture and as a form of music follows the same classification in this regards. Like any genre of music, hip-hop is the reflection of the society that embodies the culture, so the traits you hear in the music are more than likely the traits you will see in its people; but in recent years there are many exceptions to this rule. G ... Read more » |
 What Is Hip Hop?? Where Did It Begin??
In 1955 a man by the name of James Brown began his slow rise to fame. Little |
