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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, l...
Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Shetfall. Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture.
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Run DMC, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Gangstarr, The Roots, Nas, Krs-One, Rakim, Africa Bambata, Brand Nubian... DO I HAVE TO SAY MORE ?!
Yeah but you can't blame the CORPS. At the end of the day it's the people buying the product (everybody) that allow this shit quality to live on. If nobody bought it, the corps wouldn't produce it. It's the avg American that buys it and sends the message that this is what they want.
true, it is brainwashing and part of it has also to do with television and what these companies are trying to advertise and sell us on tv and like i said earlier if you had read what i posted i also believe it is up to the people to start doing something about it, i dont just blame corporations but both! they both play a part in this.
This guy is an idiot. We all know nigger equates to black people, bitches doesn't equate to black women, the history of the word is tottally different and ever changing. If a rapper is talking about bitches and hos and you take offence guess what...your probably a bitch, ho or a women with insercurities.
Hurt's film absolutely spotlights the fact that major labels and big business came into hip-hop and turned it into what we see today. Watch the entire film and not simply the trailer.
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Go listen to Heavy Metal, it's real music