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[17 Jan 2005 | No Comment | ]

Kenyan hip hop artists are yet to scale the same heights that their ‘kapuka’ counterparts are currently reaching. Is it the fans? Is it the quality of music, or is it the artistes’ own reticence? We let hip hop musicians fill us in on the situation.  Read the entire article at the Pulse website.

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[5 Nov 2004 | No Comment | ]

I cannot speak more words than I can think, I can only try. So as I put this ink to paper in the hope that my thoughts will be expressed to the best of my ability, I can only wish that you will try and understand to the best of yours…

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[15 Oct 2004 | No Comment | ]

We have all become familiar with terms like “street teams” and “guerrilla promotional tactics“. Because not only are many companies like Hip-Hop and Skateboard labels employing this grassroots style marketing as their primary method of getting the word out, but it has also become a perfect marketing tool used by big corporations to promote their products…

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[5 Sep 2004 | No Comment | ]

In my mind hip-hop had just been a musical concept derived from the United States of America and the phrase “hip-hop you’re the love of my life “ was just another line I sang on my way to somewhere. But you see, my thoughts are not your thoughts and in Pretoria hip-hop has truly become the love of ones life.

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[3 Sep 2004 | No Comment | ]

Pseudo Hip Hop Fundamentalists are really the most sickening people in the whole movement.  Embracing the culture fully does not mean you have to box the rules, if that was the case we would still be wearing shell toes to board meetings, we would still be dropping two words to roughly chopped breaks, while a DJ is scratching one deck through barely audible mics, but we don’t.  Do you know why?  With changes in time and various advancement we are exposed to mediums that are better suited which allow us to “let it out”.

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[19 Jul 2004 | No Comment | ]

Peace to all Azanians in the Motherland. Here in France we got people loving S.A underground. These cats are now looking at our music as the freshest that has come out of HipHop in a long time. You see they are flooded with stuff from the States and everywhere else for that matter, but since they heard ours, they are like, “this is from Africa?”. Right now “Stereotypes” from Tad Savage, “Live a Little” from KingPin (RIP) and “Klapkop” from BMP are blowing up the airwaves in the small town of Toulouse. Besides that, other cats are getting mad air-time, Hymphatic Thabs, Gini Grindith, Concentration Camp, Groundworks, Archetypes, 5th Floor, King Daniel. Read on…

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[5 Jul 2004 | No Comment | ]

The version of Hip Hop that the world’s media promotes globally, is a strange sissified version of it’s true self. It consists of middle-class fakers acting like gangsters, so-called hardcore rappers, so-called underground heads and so-called superstars killing each other, while the white controlled global media celebrates. Who are these imposters?

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[2 Jul 2004 | No Comment | ]

We at the Hiphocalypse movement believe hip hop must grow in Africa as a continent in order to realise the full potential of the movement. With this in mind we will (try to) keep everyone posted on movements from Zimbabwe as well as SA. This news article highlights some of the great work being done up in Zim. Read on to discover the talents up north.

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[25 Jun 2004 | One Comment | ]

The Zimbabwean hip hop generation was in for a treat this past weekend courtesy of hip hop activists “The Movement“. They are the same guys that brought you the “Pungwe” compilation and have now released their sophomore release tentatively titled “Bira“. This compilation features some of the hottest Zim talent from the Diaspora.

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[4 Jun 2004 | No Comment | ]

A controversial art form and provocative cultural phenomenon, graffiti has inestimably influenced our entire environment—from music and fashion to advertising, architecture, and graphic arts. Yet it is an illegal activity, which makes its practitioners wanted criminals. Motivated by a desire for self-expression and recognition, the act of marking one’s territory is done at the risk of severe consequences including fines and jail time. Graffiti writers are outlaws, unknown artists whose faces are known only to their peers. Treated as criminals by the law and dismissed as artists by the establishment, writers are perceived as either alluring anti-heroes or loathsome vandals, and usually remain anonymous to their audience. But not to photographer Peter Sutherland.

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[25 May 2004 | No Comment | ]

For those in the know, “Watch Out Deh Now” is more than a heed to action, it’s the trademark catcall for funnyman J. Anthony Brown. As a forerunner to today’s hot Black comedy scene, and one of the foremost kings of that comedy, J. Anthony Brown is finally receiving the accolades he so justly deserves.

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[21 Apr 2004 | No Comment | ]

Visionary people like me rarely have the opportunity to share with others. We are normally hushed away in closed-minded communities, where the majority populous explains away our hypothesis and theories as foolishness or even insanity. Two years ago, I could’ve told you that Chicago was soon to become a Hip-Hop and Entertainment Mecca. But at that time I would’ve just as quickly been written off as delusional. As a matter of fact, Five years ago I could’ve told you that people like Kanya West and Twista were all over the Chicagoland area. But today I bet you would dare to believe me, now wouldn’t you?

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[2 Mar 2004 | No Comment | ]

During the month of January 2004 Rush went over to the Bay Area (USA) to attend the Symposium on the Arts & Social Justice Movements in Contemporary Japan & Beyond. He told me it was a life changing moment for him and that he cannot wait to go there again. This week he writes this article to share the experience with us.

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[31 Jan 2004 | No Comment | ]

We often hear the older generation say, ” In my day this never would have happened” They cite a variety of reasons why such “immoral “behavior did not (they claim) exist then. Many assert that in the past people feared the law, or that they had a greater deal of respect for their elders. Some even go as far as claiming that the belief in God and God’s wrath was the reason why many things not only didn’t occur but why they were not even thought of!

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[20 Jan 2004 | No Comment | ]

Searching for the genetic anomaly of the pure bred, the so-called Aryan, is not beyond the conception of modern times. With the intervening hand of science the pure bred can be fabricated at the expense of religious ethics and morals. A pure bred occurring naturally or unnaturally require a masterful and meticulous plan of trial and error over several decades.