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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height ...
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Hip-Hop 50 Years: How The Genre Impacted South Africa

It’s impossible to overlook hip-hop’s profound impact on the global music landscape as it celebrates its 50th year. Beyond its birthplace in the Bronx, New York, this genre has transcended borders, ...
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RISING STAR | Speeka champions hip-hop culture through Kasi Rap Records on SABC 1

Kasi Rap Records, he stands at the centre of a movement that asserts township stories deserve nationwide volume, on their own ...
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Hip-hop is the Beacon of African American Culture, but its Roots are Multicultural

For five decades, hip-hop has redefined the soundscape of American music and created a billion-dollar industry in its wake. Hip-hop as we know it has evolved way past its humble beginnings in the ...
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Native tongues : an African hip-hop reader / edited by P. Khalil Saucier

Introduction / P. Khalil Saucier -- Part One: African noise : mapping African hip-hop from the East, West, and South: Rappin' Griots : producing the local in Senegalese hip-hop / Catherine Appert ; ...
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‘Love & Hip Hop’: Creator Mona Scott-Young Hopes to Expand to This African Country

Could the Love & Hip Hop franchise be expanding to a new continent? While the jury may still be out on if that would ever or happen or not, one thing is for certain: it seems like the franchise’s ...
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Hip hop Africa : new African music in a globalizing world / edited by Eric Charry

Reviewed by Luis Gimenez in African music (Grahamstown, South Africa) 9 (3) 2013, pages 192-195. Reviewed by Caroline Mose in Journal of African cultural studies (London) 25 (2) June 2013, pages ...
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Philly hip-hop artist returns back to school to share the importance of African American studies

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! Hip-hop music is celebrating 50 years, and since its inception the impact it’s had on ...
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Hip-Hop Colony: The African Hip-Hop Explosion - Where to Watch

Trying to find 'Hip-Hop Colony: The African Hip-Hop Explosion' right from your couch? Pinpointing where to stream, rent, buy, or watch how to watch this Michael Wanguhu directed movie can be confusing ...
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Hip-hop is the Beacon of African American Culture, but its Roots are Multicultural

The story of hip-hop’s beginnings has been highly contested, but it begins in the Bronx on Aug. 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc’s sister, Cindy, is hosting a back-to-school party in their apartment complex, ...
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Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...