Hip Hop is a Database
[vodpod id=Video.5574372&w=500&h=411&fv=] ...The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of
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Paul Milchick
Paul Milchik is a pseudonym for the author of this piece. His name has been changed due to his status as an international student in the US during the second Trump administration, in a context where foreign students have been targeted for detention and deportation as a result of expressing pro-Palestinian views.
Fact Checking Mandela
It’s unfortunate the New York Times Book Review handed the appraisal of three recent books about
Somewhere in Africa (The Remix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssJ27b5asx4 Remember Meta and Cornerstones' tune "Somewhere in Africa"? It got a makeover as a remix
The Grammys
Distracted by Cee Lo's chicken suit or Lady Gaga's latest stunt (she hatched from an egg),
Shameless Self Promotion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LngTUSmaZ5k The second episode of "What's Up Africa," the Radio Netherlands Worldwide 'creative vlog on African
True Blood or Sushi
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muV6e1HPxcY&w=500&h=307] S: What does this say about contemporary white Afrikaans speaking music culture? T: That Van
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTBlOvNzXzQ Illa J, younger brother of J Dilla, teams up with Belgian producer Cris Prolific. February
African-American comedians and “Africa jokes”
From Richard Pryor through to Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock and Wyatt Cenac. They all do “Africa” bits. It’s not always funny or good social commentary.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvdU5R7ywQ4
'White Music for Black People'*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Vk6CPUj9s It must be the weather. Something ("Everlasting Gobstopper," released in 2008) from the brothers, Daniel
A Great Day in Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgw_zfLLvh8 Hosni Mubarak is gone. The hard questions--that Omar Suleiman and the military stand aside for
'Old and New Colonists in Zambia'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRw7DWPchE From Davy Lane: [Two excerpts from a] BBC documentary on 'Chinese in Africa,' [titled "The
Film Critic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLix4QPL3tY& The 1985 Arnold Schwarzenegger action flick "Commando" is narrated--"shot for shot"--by a 9-year old Tanzanian boy.
'You know where Egypt is on a map?'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pedMB8zM2BQ The "internet stand-up comedian" Kassem G talks to beach goers in Venice Beach, California, about
Tit for Tat
As the dominant narrative about Paul Kagame began to change, some Western journalists failed to catch up. They get mad when that’s pointed out.
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwuubhJTLc The Chicago-born jazz musician Matana Roberts, performing live in London late last year. If you
White Butterflies
The trailer for "Black Butterflies," the new Dutch film about the 1960s Afrikaans writer, Ingrid Jonker,
Jeffrey Wright Reads Walt Whitman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKUZpOjUKcM This is from a minute ago, but I had to post it as it features
Snoop Dogg's Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwrpX3wMD2o The music video for a new song by Nigerian rapper/R&B singer D'Banj featuring Snoop Dogg
Music Break
http://vimeo.com/19132287 Video of the Burnt Sugar Arkestra performing live January 21, 2011, in New York City.