hip-hop

This one is for our crew, but it__ also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.

Science n_ Shit in a Hip-Hop Style with Stephen Hawking(Kick-snare, kick-kick snare).__et me tell you my plan for the human race, well I would but I can__,__os I can__ move me face,So my computerised voice is how I__l go, I type with me eye to keep the flowWe__e all gonna go live in outer spaceWhere zero gravity will stop me dribbling all over the placeI__l tell y__ll how I__l get there:With some rockets built into me special wheel chairThe moons of Jupiter, in perfect animationWe__l all live in a huge space stationI__l be able to dance and chase all the fannyAnd finally get me end away with me nanny.__cience n_ Shit in a Hip-Hop Style with Stephen Hawking II__rom the moons of Ganymede, Io & Titan, I__l tell y__ll somethin_ that__ sure to enlightenIn space, there are galaxies nebula & starsAnd dying suns that are going super no-vaBut no anomalies can compare, To how much I wanna run my fingers through your hairSir Patrick Moore, a true space oracle, With your knowledge of cheats and gorgeous monocleI__ coming out as gay, and I don__ give a hootI__ the first fuckin_ vegetable that turned into a fruitWord.

This kid was writing saying that they were breaking down some of the racial lines in their towns and communities, because their break dance crews were mixed race, and they didn__ give a fuck. They didn__ care what the Klu Klux Klan said._- Michael Holman (screenwriter, Basquiat)from nthWORD Issue #8, coming soon...

As with outlaw figures, in diverse musical and oral cultures throughout the world- Mexican corridos and Egyptian shaabi music, for example- Hip Hop's irreverence toward dominant values and noncompliance with the status quo creates alternative, counterhegemonic spaces.

As social phenomena, languages are tied up in world of unequal power relations, gaining or losing status not based on technical linguistic grounds but on social judgement, biases, and stereotypes that are based on the status of their speakers. As such, we argue that white America's love-hate relationship with black modes of communication can only be interpreted within a framework that considers language a primary site of cultural contestation. It should be clear by now that it's about more than a mothafucka, right? Our analysis of Black Language forms that the dominant culture considers inflammatory, controversial, or stigmatized allows us to make several observations. First, building off what anthropologist and linguist Arthur Spears noted in his discussion of uncensored speech, Black verbal culture, like all cultures is "a complex network of predispositions, values, behaviors, expectations and routines." Language practices, in their varying sociocultural contexts, can only be understood if read within the full range of the community's speech activities, and that requires rigorous ethnographic search and analysis. Second the community's beliefs and ideas about language- it's language ideologies- should be the primary point of departure for investigation and interpretation.

Maybe I write because I__e learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech.

The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.

...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us.We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy. We stand as the manifested equivalent of 3 buckets of water and a hand full of minerals, thus realizing that those very buckets turned upside down supply the percussion factor of forever...

...We claim the present as the pre-sent, as the hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness, we trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We now know that the heart is the philosophers' stone. Our music is our alchemy...

I want to marry his smile, and if his smile is already married to someone else, then I want to marry his eyebrows and eyes. They're remarkable. Nobody's ever made better use of his or her eyes or eyebrows as a rapper than Kurtis Blow.

Cuz even a gangsta rapper can find redemptionFor the sins committed before revelation.

I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false gods and made them over; he would have taken the current formulae and forced them into something lesser men thought them incapable of. Alive today he would undoubtedly have written and directed motion pictures, plays, and God knows what. Instead of saying, "This medium is not good," he would have used it and made it good. If some people called some his work cheap (which some of it was), he wouldn't have cared a rap, because he would know that without some vulgarity there is no complete man. He would have hated refinement, as such, because it is always a withdrawal, and he was too tough to shrink from anything.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

When hip-hop was born she had no commercial home, and was an invention of beautiful creativity. Born from a beautiful struggle, today she is mostly a 'ratchet' bitch spitting nonsense from her pimp's mansion.