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Bad Meaning Good is a documentary on the London hip hop scene in the late 80’s, early 90’s by Tim Westwood. Some of the footage from this doc is also used in the London Posse Mini Doc put together by Tru Thoughts who will be re-releasing the groups 1990 release Gangster Chronicles on June 17, 2013.
I vaguely remember London Posse but the Bad Meaning Good also features a segment with the Cookie Crew who were like the Salt N Pepa of the UK, and a group I loved. Remember Got To Keep On? Either way, it’s brief, but informative and well worth taking in. Enjoy!
I was headed to Panama to build a Beat Making Lab—a mobile electronic studio—at a community center in Portobelo when my business partner Apple Juice Kid got an interesting call. Apparently there was a studio in the rain forests of Gamboa, where an incarcerated DJ named Professor Angel Sound was making beats in a prison—the same prison that houses Manuel Noriega (yes, the real Noriega).
Man, this is an ill video. So many hand styles. I have a few markers. Might have to pull out the notebook and practice.
There Are People In World Who Are Concerned About Current State Of Hip-Hop | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
The beauty in a career like that of Nile Rodgers is that you never realize how much work this man has done until you sit down and watch a piece like this.
The Hitmaker (BBC Full Documentary)
(Source: youtube.com)
Back in my dads day in Trinidad, this woulda been known as “slick patna”
If I asked you what Jermaine Dupri, Underground Hip Hop and NPR have in common the likely response would be a blank stare (or Whodini, but most likely a blank stare). But in one of the most creative ways I’ve heard an album/artist advertised. NPR’s Snap Judgement presents the story of Homeboy Sandman and how he truly went for broke. Avoiding eviction by sort-of winning a rap battle hosted by Jermaine Dupri, this is some real first day of spring inspirational isht.
