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The Words Need Breath, Not Beat

Permalink 04/19/10 01:42, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: amiri baraka, def mos, def poetry, digable planets, hip hop, rap, roots, stolen moments, the last poets, the watts prophets
Hip hop is politics. It is amazing what changes have come in the US in only 50 years... and how few things have really changed. The issues of one are related to those of another, and we can't forget we are all still in this together. It would be a sham… more »

A Road to Hip Hop

Permalink 04/05/10 00:30, by Paul Bourgeois, Categories: BFMN Exclusive, Monday Morning Musical Musings, Paul Bourgeois , Tags: bfmn, black, blues, branford marsalis, digable planets, duke ellington, guru, hip-hop, jazz, last poets, new york, paul bourgeois, red hot + cool, stolen moments, waok, watts prophets
I just had this discussion with one of my students, a girl from Detroit, and she told me I couldn't know much about hip-hop because I am a white Canadian, and she's right.… more »