Beyond Beats & Rhymes Intro

[MrsBrent]

great movie

[dragongon71]

There's some book on Amazon called: The Org 'Biography of a Violent Man'. Not sure how a book can be so violent and still funny at the same time, but it is. They limit it to only a 100 copies a year.

[ThoughtseizeBeats]

Nice!

[SuperMOaNiS]

ny1 noez wat song is in the 1st 20+ seconds of the vid?

[MrVraiable]

like a spoiled child complaining that he is exhausted from his toys and those he dote on him, they complain that they step on their own toes while they oppress, and bother others. Espeially avoiding and using others mainly girls as a slur to feed their superiority complex. a better point is the racial double standard that the white guy is the action hero but a gangster is a troublesome thug.

[luvjoesmell]

dude this shit is hot...im luvin it

[Harvesterofmetal]

And If i can add something, the movie is forgetting that hip hop is a vibe, it's music, so it can be shared, whatever is your colour, your sexual orientation, your city, your thoughts. It think that white people like me see hip hop as a ghetto documentary but it's forgetting that rappers use music to say: whatever we're coming from, we make art, we shared it, we act positive. You thought we weren't capable?It's all about freedom and not acting like victims. It's "being a man",you got it Chuck D.

[Harvesterofmetal]

I just saw it. I'm sorry, the movie deals with problems in "hip hop" music, ok, but it focusses to much on masculinity. As a male deviant, I know what I'm talkin about and I think that it's up top people to take care or not of the brand new "messages" in mainstream hip hop.

[nomadicTurk]

schock total but if you see you owns the music indutry AND the movie industry AND banks AND see what these people really want THAN you can see its just a control tool but by the way whats the name of that song at 2.20?

[distantshooter]

I agree with Bl4Z3r82. It's about being youself. The only problem is sometimes someone's self is a negative contributer in their community. There is a such thing as an ethical hustla and drug dealer but that's not what's being represented. It's the "get rich or die trying" mentally that causes a lot more people in urban areas to die rather than get rich. So it comes down to what consumers want. If they accept a certain type of rapper then they accept that behaivor and that behaivior is wrong.

[Bl4z3r82]

Hip Hop is truth, its where your heads at. Its like KRS One once said ``you can be a pimp, a hustla, a playa, but make sure that you is a dope rhyme sayer". Too many folks are perpetratin now, thinking they got to be a certain way to be hip hop. Where really all you gotta do is be true to yourself.

[CrowdPleeza]

1. This doc was about gangsta rap not Hip Hop. Hip Hop is more than just rap or g-rap.

2. Why link rap with rape? Women were being raped long before rap.

3. Why don't more political rappers start their own lables so they can put out what they feel needs to be out there?

[NINJUGGALOTUS]

i strongly agree with #1 hip-hop and rap are not one-and-the-same

[Eastsid3]

1.Hip hop is more than rap and G-rap, but those parts of it are killing it. or at least todays ver. of it.

2.They said nothing about rap being linked to rap, they're just saying the hyper masculinity portrayed in rap is running over into real life.

3.They're are many rappers trying to do the positive thing, but they don't sell, most people want to hear Money,hoes and guns all the time and over shadow the other stuff. for example 50 cent, Nelly and Lil Wayne sell way more than Mos def, Kweli...

[OscarMaris]

because of idiots like you

[ParanoidMystic]

This is amazing! Must see the whole program now.

[truthspreader]

The Honorable Elijah Muhammad describes it as the Samson factor. Samson was strong and angry at his enemies, yet he was blind and in an effort to rebel against his enemies he killed himself. Story of Black males

[Nightmastercool97]

Hip hop is so one sided as mentioned from the commens above but there are some people that made more clean cut; people like Will Smith, Outkast, Sugarhill Gang, Black Eyed Peas, Lauren Hill and a few others. hip hop is okay for the most part except for mentioned of the video above that is only rapping about pimping hoes, killing people, money, calling other people pussies or chumps, insecurity and homophobia.

[bintalshamsa]

Mr. Hurt, thank you so much for making this documentary. I grew up with hip hop but now that I'm a parent I see it all in a different light. I want my daughter to be able to have the love for hip hop that I had but without all of the misogyny. Thank you for doing your part to save hip hop for the next generation.

[stvtvshow]

Legendry Movements

Stop The Violence Use Your Talents.

[mishalo]

The new Hip-hop/r&B that started in the 90's is a totally different trend, I don't even know know why it kept the name. The early hip-hop had to do with electronic music, wicked sound effects, and dancing. Most stuff from that era is not even under Hiphop anymore, and lot of times under electro, italo disco, breakdance and other 80's electronic music tags

[Rodrickzx]

What's up Byron? We actually had a program about your documentary here at the University of South Florida in Tampa.

[vidkid247]

I watched the documentary on PBS. You're right, hip-hop has become a one dimensional genre

[immeris]

Byron, you are a lone voice in the wilderness. Power to you.

[born2sing2theworld]

He is not a lone voice -- what you don't understand is that there is a revolution going on. There are MILLIONS of us that are SICK and TIRED of the niggativity of hip/hop! To further prove my point, hip/hop sales has declined 21% - the largest ever! So heed the message - that destructive NIGGATIVE hip/hop is dying and no one is more happier than me to see it happening!

[jfpwr]

byron i'm in canada , where can i see the full length version of this?

[SovietAthlete]

@jfpwr

Go to mediaed (dot) org