Don Letts – Hockley Social Club
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"Why would a black man fight for a country that would not let you drink from the same water fountain in Mississippi?".... prawdopodobnie obudziło w nim potrzebę edukacji (Przemianę wywołał w nim także pobyt w więzieniu i heroinowe uzależnienie jego dziewczyny). Powrócił do NY, gdzie zainteresował się prawami cywilnymi, stał się aktywistą. Przez krótki czas był dilerem, zajmował się także rozbojami. Rozpoczął pracę dla CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) - organizacji walczącej na rzecz przywrócenia praw obywatelskich dla Afroamerykanów.
"Dziękuję wszystkim raperom, którzy wzięli udział w kręceniu filmu. Hip Hop jest w Sundance! Następny przystanek... Oskary!"
"Przeprowadziłem wywiady z 50-cioma mc's - od Kanye West'a, Ice Cube'a, Eminema do Melle Mela, Grandmaster Caz'a.. Hip Hopowa scena stała się bardzo popowa. Pomyślałem sobie - zrobię film o prawdziwych raperach i o tym co nas zainspirowało. Może po obejrzeniu go wcisną przycisk reset w tej grze i opowiedzą dzieciakom, że nie chodzi tutaj tylko o zrobienie popowego numeru. Rap potrafi uczynić dużo więcej."
I, Afrika Bambaataa, have heard it all, read it all, in many magazines throughout the world, and seen almost all in this continuing bullshit about which rappers are better, east coast v west coast, Miami bass hip-hop is bullshit, British Rappers sound funny rapping, electro funk, techno rappers are soft, I like hardcore rap and beats, this one group is like that, old school vs new school, Rap wouldn`t be rap if it wasn`t for the battles, I`m the quickest, baddest rapper, deejay around, Go Go music in Washington D. C. is dead. It`s all about hip-house or house music all night long. I dis you, you dis me, my crew will take you out or kick your ass, fuck this or that, Nigger, Bitch, Nigguz, Nigguh, Hoe, Hooker, Bitches with Problems, Hoes with Attitudes. Just look at yourselves, sounding like a bunch of fools, who really don`t have any true knowledge of self and knowledge of hip-hop culture and what it`s all about.
First of all, let me tell you that the music (beats) that makes up hip-hop, comes from different nationalities and races, especially from black people, and if you think I am a brother who don`t know what he is talking about, just check out many of the music, beats, grooves and sounds that many of your rappers use to make their records or rap over. Hip-hop music in general is colorless and not racist.
It comes from many categories in music, for example: Hip-hop music is made up from other forms of music like funk, soul, rhythm & blues, jazz, rock heavy metal, salsa, soca (calypso), TV shows, kiddie shows, horror movies, techno, pop, disco, african, arabic, reggae -etc. . . . and if you use any records from these categories, you will see that the music is made by people from different races or nationalities from all over the planet, but it`s roots start with black people.
I have read many interviews by different rap groups throughout the world, just to see where their heads are at, whether they are really knowledgeable about hip-hop music/culture or whether they are just plain assholes. Many of the rappers will down(dis) another rapper because he or she wanted to experiment with hip-hop by singing or adding a different sound in hip-hop to create something new.
When are all of you in the hip-hop world going to "wake up"? You love to keep dissing each other for nothing and if you were wise in your disrespect of each other, you would know how to make money with respecting your disrespect of each other, if you truly understand what I am saying. Many who are into hip-hop or part of hip-hop culture throughout the world need a check up from the neck up.
In fact, and in truth, the whole human family needs one. Everyone needs to check up on their own roots and culture and seek the real truths on life on this so-called planet Earth. Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, facts and truths about black, brown, red, yellow and white people and not that brainwash white supremacy shit that white people in power have taught all over the world and to their own people of the so called planet Earth.
Yes there are many wrongs in the worldwide hip-hop community, but there are also many aspects of positivity within the hip-hop community that the media or trade magazines rarely focus upon. Many of you in hip-hop culture don`t even listen to the rappers who are trying hard to wake your asses up to what is going on in the bigger scale than of what you see in your neighborhoods, their message goes in one ear and out the other.
The media does play a big role in destroying the hip-hop culture movement, but many of you in the hip-hop community are the biggest enemies of hip-hop and you will be the ones who will help the enemies of hip-hop to destroy it, or to bring it back underground, because of your ignorance of knowledge of hip-hop. This has started the difference between "old school" and "new school".
To myself (Afrika Bambaataa) there is only one school and that`s the learning, evolving, going through the different phases or cycles school of hip-hop. That is the real hip-hop school. A lot of you in the world of hip-hop better start looking at the problems in your own backyard as well as the world, because while you are enjoying yourselves etc. there are many plots being sprung to destroy hip-hop in the world
Because many people in government look at hip-hop music and its culture as a radical music that gets straight to the point and music that will wake up the youth and young adults throughout the world. They can also use hip-hop to backfire and destroy itself. You can believe what I`m saying. But time will tell and I see what you see not.
Ciekawe jak słowa Bambaaty o prawdziwej szkole odnoszą się do akcesji Lil Wayne'a do organizacji UZN. Nie ulega wątpliwości, że jako rapper nie promuje dobrych wartości ...Peace be into you,
Your brother In music and faith, Afrika Bambaataa.
"When he first heard his record Super Rhymes being played he was walking down the street and when it came on the radio cars were on the same radio dial coming and going at the same time, someone had the box on a park bench and someone was playing their radio loud in their house and at one time Super Rhymes came on and he was over whelmed with happiness smiling from ear to ear and no one knew he was Jimmy Spicer yet so they couldn't figure out why he was so happy but he didn't care especially when he seen people dancing to his record, and he raised his fist in victory as he rocked the block"W 1982 w Mercury wydał electro track - The Bubble Bunch.
“The Recording Academy is dedicated to celebrating a wide variety of great music and sound through the decades,” said Neil Portnow, President/CEO of The Recording Academy. “We are especially honored to welcome this year’s selection of some of the most influential recordings of the last century. Marked by both cultural and historical significance, these works truly have influenced and inspired audiences for generations, and we are thrilled to induct them into our growing catalog of outstanding recordings.”
"We used to go to different states to sell drugs, make crazy Money (…). I remember one time next to the last time we went to Georgia to sell, we were at this bar, and Charlie was around one side of the bar sellin’ while I was on the opposite side sellin’, and Jerodo was in front watching the car (…) I heard a loud bang! It was a single shot. We ran to the front of the bar and saw Jerondo (ich człowiek) on the ground with three gunmen over him (…) As we pulled out our pistols, Charlie and I, after coming different directions, the guys opened fired on us. They had Mac-10 machine guns and an Uzi."Bee urodził się na Bronxie, tam się wychowywał i był świadkiem oraz czynnie uczestniczył w rozwój ruchu. Jak sam twierdzi, on i jego ludzie wprowadzili hip hop na Long Island ! Dzisiaj zajmuję się projektowaniem biżuterii, marzy o otworzeniu hip hopowej restauracji.
OldSchoolers Crew to ekipa założona przez Dj'a Fingera i kOOl MiKe'a w 2008 roku. Idea organizowanych przez nich event'ów poświęcona jest promowaniu i rozpowszechnianiu prawdy o korzeniach Kultury Hip Hop. Edukowanie poprzez muzykę, film, taniec, słowo, a to wszystko w pozytywnym klimacie ''block parties'', prosto z czarnoskórych dzielnic Nowego Jorku lat 70-80 minionego stulecia. Na ich żywiołowe sety składa się oldschool rap / funk&soul / bboy breaks / electro / 80s pop / disco oraz zapomniane taneczne kawałki z dobrym brzmieniem Starej Szkoły.
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