Hip Hop Summit: Hollapalooza and KC's Hip Hop Community
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It's no secret that hip hop has had a pervasive and deep impact socially and culturally, beginning in the 20th century and into this century. Dating back to the 1970s, it is a genre of music misrepresented, co-opted, and monetized by major music labels and players (following in the path of blues, folk, R&B, country, and rock). Hip hop has been snubbed, attacked, or disregarded by those who do not fully understand its impact or relate to its many messages. Still, hip hop artists from Kansas City to Seattle, Tokyo to London, New York to Atlanta, continue to produce innovative music and messages that defy formulas.
The music and its cultural cousins––breakdancing, emceeing, DJing, grafitti, and fashion––have been cast in stereotypes that signals and reflects our national preoccupation with sex and violence, fencing in the broader scope of hip hop's universe. In its genesis, words and music and imagery emanating from the cultural stomping grounds of minorities, specifically black and Latinos in The Bronx, represented a lifestyle and views outside the mainstream. This origin made hip hop a point of view from the "other" side of the street, from the edgy parts of town, that didn't fit into the format of white America's consciousness and formulaic media outlets for years. Something happened along the way that flipped the social and cultural acceptability of hip hop.
Hip Hop - A Local Sampler
Reach - Can Can
Reach - Dance in the Rain
Absurd Sin/Negro Scoe - It's Hip Hop
Reggie B, Innate Sounds Crew - Whitehouse Lies
INnate Sounds Crew - Take Control
Stik Figa - Looking Good (Remix)
Stik Figa and Leonard Dstroy - 24-7
CES Cru/Joe Good - The Block (Miles Bonny Remix)
DJ Ataxic - Lab Sessions, Volume 1
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