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This is the first page I’ve created that features only photographs from inside the Norris Theater. While living in the west African country of Senegal, Ben Herson became intrigued with the use of rap music to promote polital and social change, a phenomenon that propelled the election of Abdoulaye Wade in […]
After setting up shop in a mobile rig for three months, producer Ben Herson returned to New York with some of the hottest underground sounds from Senegal’s up-and-coming and established hip-hop music makers. Three years later, the result, African Underground – Depths of Dakar, makes a good argument for RV-style hip-hop. In French, Wolof and […]
By HAMADOU TIDIANE SY, NATION CorrespondentLast updated: 52 minutes agoDAKAR, Tuesday
If he had wished to remain a hero in Senegal, as Nelson Mandela is across the continent, Mr Abdoulaye Wade, the octogenarian Senegalese president, could have followed the path of the old South African leader and put an end to his active political career in […]
Skeptics always suspected that big-mouthed German rappers, keen to imitate their edgy American role models, were talking the talk without walking the walk. But now the German version of gangsta rap is starting to look a whole lot realer after a rapper is shot in Berlin.
German rappers are fond of bragging about how hard life […]
Tensions are simmering between the civil rights and hip-hop generations. Can they close the gap?
By Vanessa E. Jones, Globe Staff | January 16, 2008
The furor over the name of rapper Nas’s forthcoming CD perfectly illustrates the divide between the civil rights generation and the younger hip-hop generation, which has benefited from the social […]
By ANITA POWELL – 15 hours agoADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — In a former life, Emmanuel Jal turned a gun against his government as a conscripted rebel soldier in his native Sudan.These days, the 28-year-old is a hip-hop artist who gave up his machine gun for a microphone, but keeps his aim on the Sudanese […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AFP) — Palestinian hip hop group DAM, which has spawned a cult following and a small army of imitators, was featured here in a new film at the Sundance Film Festival on the emerging Middle East music scene."Slingshot Hip Hop" by director Jackie Salloum offers a peek into contemporary life in Israel, […]
