The Essence - a Hip-Hop Documentary - New York - 1999 teaser

Taken from the forthcoming Essence dvd /// recorded from a show in 99 and 00 featuring ..Vast Air, Tes, Aesop, Raedawn, InfiniTEE, Afra, Baba, Akim funk Buddha, Ixl, Excess, the Anomolies + 5th Platoon all the illest nyc turntablists and b-boys of the time + maaaaad other heads etc...hours of footage.....To be released in 08

This post golden era classic essentially summed up the 4 elements driven sound of the 90's. A time be for Aesop and Vast were signed to Def Jux records.....before Tes and Signify were with Lex.... Many of the most talented b-boys and b-girls represented that night Include the likes of the Rocksteady Crew and Rock with Finesse among others. This period piece represented the begining and the end of an important shift in Hip Hop history at the turn of the millenium.

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Music

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• b-boy
• b-girl
• elements
• grafitti
• hip
• hop
• old
• rap
• school
• freestyle
• beatbox
• battle
• backpacker
• new
• york
• underground
• indie

[FamboyantEnt]

Hip Hop culture is eternal. Fuck where you from, hip hop lives in the heart

[Ryadavas]

What happened to Graffiti?if you cant represent probably the strongest elemetn today you should not drop this. What i learned is that there are FOUR raw elements. this is the biggest bullshit since nas dropped Hip Hop is dead and all the fucking nut cases walking around asking ppl who kiled hip hop.

How is hip hop dead? Hip Hop is not dead MCing in USA is dead although there are some true original MCs out there. go to France, Polen, Germany what ever country in Europe and The CULTURE is ALIVE!

[BeatlesSydBarrett9]

@Ryadavas what the fuck? Dude, You must have not dug underground! American Hip hop is alive, not strong but we still got plenty of good Mcs, we got rap groups, we got Atmosphere, Murs, Eyedea(wait he's dead, but check him out), Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Aesop Rock, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Rek The Heavyweight, Brother Ali, The Crest, and I know I'm missing out on a lot of other good rappers, but those are the only ones that come to mind right now, so I suggest You check them out.

[jedli]

@FamboyantEnt Amen.



[calizack781]

you forgot one of the most important elements: graffiti

[palaniuk9]

anyone of you gusy know the title if the song that starts at 1.12??? the song for the braekers.

many thks in advance

[krmulliger]

@strafer Underground, "extra alien extravagant terrestrial controlling galaxy rhymes" are still hugely popular in Indie rap. And that's the best kind. Look up "Aesop Rock hail mary mallon" next week.

[strafer]

This has to be old because the old extra alien extravagant terrestrial controlling galaxy rhymes don't work anymore.

[silentkarma]

Where can I buy this? I can't find it anywhere!!!!

[THESENSEONE]

shows how much these fags know about hip-hop. graffiti, the unmentioned element. unexcusable!!!!!!!

[MookieSays1Love]

most of the people spittin whernt very good