Tuesday, March 25, 2008
"Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes"
There’s an interesting documentary by Byron Hurt called “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes” that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. The movie examines issues of race, masculinity, sexism, violence and the corporate exploitation of youth in today's hip-hop culture.
Here’s a link for the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxjZe3RhIo
And a website that describes the movie, has a hip-hop glossary and timeline, and has a really good overview of the major issues surrounding hip-hop culture (masculinity, misogyny, homophobia, commercialism): http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/
Here’s a link for the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjxjZe3RhIo
And a website that describes the movie, has a hip-hop glossary and timeline, and has a really good overview of the major issues surrounding hip-hop culture (masculinity, misogyny, homophobia, commercialism): http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/
# posted by SuMi @ 3:37 PM 
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How funny. I actually bought this documentary a couple of weeks ago =) Highly recommend it!
I watched it with my boyfriend and it made me start thinking about what being a man actually means and how there is this small and 'box', as the documentary director calls it, and as a man you can't break out of it without being thought of as less of a man. It's sad and the points made in the documentary are so true. I felt bad when several of the most famous contemporery rappers (both those into gangsta rap AND conscious rapper such as Mos Def and Talib Kweli) couldn't come with any intelligent comments on why men feel like they have to put up this tough front... But yeah, it's really worth watching, and not only if you're interested in hip-hop since the male ideal isn't that different in the society in general.
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I watched it with my boyfriend and it made me start thinking about what being a man actually means and how there is this small and 'box', as the documentary director calls it, and as a man you can't break out of it without being thought of as less of a man. It's sad and the points made in the documentary are so true. I felt bad when several of the most famous contemporery rappers (both those into gangsta rap AND conscious rapper such as Mos Def and Talib Kweli) couldn't come with any intelligent comments on why men feel like they have to put up this tough front... But yeah, it's really worth watching, and not only if you're interested in hip-hop since the male ideal isn't that different in the society in general.
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