Tag: Hip hop music
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Don’t Get Captured
Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…
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An Adventure To Pepperland Through Rhyme & Space
The Beatles back catalogue is a gift that keeps giving, even when you’re the most jaded, some outtake, some stem, remix, or even mashup drags you back in. I was so OVER Beatles mashups especially with hiphop til I heard this. It starts off like every mashup album you’ve heard before (especially Danger Mouse’s Grey…
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There But for the Grace of God Go I
I’m really loving The Get Down, a semi-fictional series about hip-hop in 70’s Bronx via Baz Luhrmann. I don’t know why it’s got mixed reviews because unlike other shows, it has Grandmaster Flash, Nas and Kurtis Blow on board, as well as Furious 4 advising and although there are some minor slips (I’d have gotten…