{"id":139,"date":"2006-01-27T03:46:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T08:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=139"},"modified":"2018-08-24T03:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:53:43","slug":"14587-%c2%a0%c2%a0-s-craig-watkins-hip-hop-matters-%e2%80%95-politics-pop-culture-and-the-struggle-for-the%c2%a0soul-of-a-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"14587.&nbsp;(S. Craig Watkins) Hip Hop Matters \u2015 Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the&nbsp;Soul of a Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=9829\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-9829\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/01\/06-01-27-READ-14587.-S.-Craig-Watkins-Hip-Hop-Matters-\u2015-Politics-Pop-Culture-and-the-Struggle-for-the-Soul-of-a-Movement.jpg\" alt=\"06-01-27 READ 14587. (S. Craig Watkins) Hip Hop Matters \u2015 Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement\" width=\"391\" height=\"280\"><\/a>A straight\u00adfor\u00adward his\u00adtory of the ear\u00adly days of Hip Hop, focus\u00ading more on the pro\u00adduc\u00aders, record labels and peo\u00adple who ran the busi\u00adness end than on the per\u00adform\u00aders. Hip Hop seems to have coa\u00adlesced into exis\u00adtence simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly in sev\u00ader\u00adal U.S. cities in the ear\u00adly sev\u00aden\u00adties, but a con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal \u201cbirth\u00adday\u201d is the August 11, 1973 par\u00adty in a base\u00adment apart\u00adment in the Bronx. Soon, p<\/span><span lang=\"en\">eople DJs like Afri\u00adka Bam\u00adbaataa and Kool Herc were throw\u00ading block par\u00adties fea\u00adtur\u00ading break\u00adbeats and scratch\u00ading. Emcees, began spon\u00adta\u00adneous\u00adly rap\u00adping to the beats.Through the sev\u00aden\u00adties, it was a spon\u00adta\u00adneous, infor\u00admal and bare\u00adly noticed seen\u2026it was six years before the first Hip Hop album was record\u00aded and released. As the musi\u00adcal fash\u00adion sat\u00adu\u00adrat\u00aded the world, mon\u00adey start\u00aded pil\u00ading up, and the inevitable strug\u00adgle between art, social con\u00adscience, and busi\u00adness inter\u00adests. This is the part that inter\u00adests the author. His <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">analy\u00adsis is com\u00admon sense: mon\u00adey soon over\u00adwhelms art and social causes.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An inter\u00adest\u00ading quo\u00adta\u00adtion: <em>\u201cWho would pay mon\u00adey for some\u00adthing they can hear for free at par\u00adties? Let\u2019s keep it under\u00adground. Nobody out\u00adside of the Bronx would like this stuff any\u00adway.\u201d \u2014- <\/em>Joseph Sad\u00addler, aka Grand\u00admas\u00adter Flash, 1979, when approached with the idea of putting rap music on records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A straight\u00adfor\u00adward his\u00adtory of the ear\u00adly days of Hip Hop, focus\u00ading more on the pro\u00adduc\u00aders, record labels and peo\u00adple who ran the busi\u00adness end than on the per\u00adform\u00aders. Hip Hop seems to have coa\u00adlesced into exis\u00adtence simul\u00adta\u00adne\u00adous\u00adly in sev\u00ader\u00adal U.S. \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=139\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,18,947,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-bu-reading-2006","category-c-listening","category-cu-listening-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9830,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/9830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}