observations

Kind of a weird week for hip-hop’s support of Barack Obama, as he’s gained a huge supporter in Will.I.Am, while 50 has predicted his assassination should he be elected president. Læs resten af dette indlæg »

Recently Barack Obama was asked which music he had listened to at the moment, and he answered Jay-Z’s new album. Aside the fact that a presidential hopeful spends his time listening to a rapper pay homage to the biggest Harlem drug lord in history, this got me to wonder if we could actually get the first president in history, that actually likes hip-hop. While this remains to be seen, it seems that hip-hop will play an increasingly bigger part in the (Democratic) campaign, so I decided to give you an overview. Læs resten af dette indlæg »

George W Bush takes office and quickly becomes the most hated on president out of all the presidents that say they get hated on. Barack Obama, however, receives nothing but praise. Læs resten af dette indlæg »

Hip-hop is the full blown angry voice of the black youth. Rappers diss the presidents and the presidents diss the rappers right back. But who had dinner with the president and who was splashing over Monica? Læs resten af dette indlæg »

Carter smiles goodbye, Reagan’s in office, Jesse runs, Kurtis Blow rules the world, Public Enemy revives the spirit of the Black Panthers. It’s the first encounters of hip-hop and the presidents: Læs resten af dette indlæg »

So Tom Cruise took a break from Kid Katie to tango with a real woman. He locked horns with the mighty Queen Latifah and boy was that a mismatch made in heaven. I guess when Latifah rapped she “Had it up to here”, it was about the spot Tom reaches upto. Danes might remember a similar mismatch from the 1970’s, it went a little like this: Læs resten af dette indlæg »

A short while ago I had the pleasure of interviewing The RZA for an upcomming issue of ActionSpeax - a Danish hip-hop magazine, that have been kind enough to hire me to write for them. So I traveled to Berlin to conduct the interview and headed back the same day – pretty hectic. Læs resten af dette indlæg »

Danish hip-hop has its kings and dukes, but only one queen – that’s MisMarie, and today is her birthday. From the start with DoubleMouth to stealing the spotlight from Tim Dog and Bahamadia, she remains the echelon of MC’ing and hopefully she’ll soon have the hip-hop market in a cobra clutch.

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So there’s all this talk about the Simpsons Movie, but it seems their neighbor-eeno Ned Flanders beat them to it:
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Second update centering around something Nas says on his new album. For some reason I’m really fascinated by his rekindled love-interest with hip-hop, because on one hand it’s cool that he’s name checking all the artists I enjoyed growing up, on the other hand it kinda seems like it’s mostly done for the sake of having a topic to rhyme about.

Take “Where are the now” for one.
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