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Still Hip Hop

Still Hip Hop

By
Sean Jacobs

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Hip hop now has its own museums, honors shows on basic cable, and rap beats drive car commercials.  So I am surprised when good hip hop happens again, whether from trusted sources or from artists you’ll never hear from on the radio.  Like Jay Electronica recent “The Ghost of Christopher Wallace.” If you missed his “Exhibit A” and “Exhibit C”–I prefer the Mos Def remix for the latter–google it and take a listen.

— Sean Jacobs

Further Reading

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.