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On March 2,
Kirk Knight took a break from recording in
the home
he shares with his manager and two new kittens.
Photograph:
Jessica Lehrman
for The New York Times
Hip-Hop’s New New
York
NYT
MAY 2, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/
opinion/sunday/hip-hops-new-new-york.html
REST IN PEACE PRODIGY (MOBB DEEP) 80 MINUTES OF HIS MUSIC
2017
VIDEO
REST IN PEACE
PRODIGY (MOBB DEEP) | 80 MINUTES OF HIS MUSIC | STREAM TRIBUTE
Video
20 June 2017
YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVZ2_6Yf81M
rap
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/rap
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/
hustlers-convention-rap-lost-great-album-hip-hop
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2003/may/07/
artsfeatures.popandrock
rap
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/
928625419/dj-drama-mixtape-raid-that-changed-rap
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/
923405080/lyrics-on-trial-mac-phipps-pt-2
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/
921124609/the-camouflage-assassin-mac-phipps-pt-1
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/
876485823/rap-on-trial-how-an-aspiring-musicians-words-led-to-prison-time
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/23/
678696503/the-best-rap-albums-of-2018-were-totally-surreal
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/09/28/
554220367/how-streaming-revolutionized-raps-album-rollouts-on-the-road-to-no-1
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/19/
551787647/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-a-story-of-rap-and-rebirth
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/aug/20/
jay-z-review-the-king-of-rap-bears-no-juicy-tabloid-tidbits
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/
arts/music/soundcloud-rap-lil-pump-smokepurrp-xxxtentacion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/
arts/music/prodigy-mobb-deep-dead.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/03/14/
468724848/k-a-a-n-is-the-answer-to-all-of-your-rap-desires
New York rap
USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/
arts/music/prodigy-mobb-deep-dead.html
rap genre > trap
music USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/
928307301/the-day-the-mixtape-died-dj-drama
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/19/
551787647/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-a-story-of-rap-and-rebirth
conscious rap
USA
https://www.npr.org/2017/11/19/
564453458/talib-kweli-speaks-through-radio-silence
USA >
gangsta rap UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/mar/16/
nate-dogg-obituary
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/23/
rudy-ray-moore-obituary
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/may/23/
arts.politics
gangsta culture
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/sep/12/
schools.society
gangsta rap lyrics
rapper
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/28/
kano-live-review-liverpool-arts-club-made-in-the-manor
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-
24186020 -
21 September 2013
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/nov/09/
heavy-d
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/13/
50-cent-his-own-words
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/23/
lil-wayne-pleads-guilty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/20/
urban
rapper
UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/13/
923405080/lyrics-on-trial-mac-phipps-pt-2
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/
921124609/the-camouflage-assassin-mac-phipps-pt-1
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/19/
551787647/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-a-story-of-rap-and-rebirth
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/
obituaries/christopher-wong-won-rapper-and-a-founder-of-2-live-crew-dies-at-53.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/
arts/music/soundcloud-rap-lil-pump-smokepurrp-xxxtentacion.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/
arts/music/prodigy-mobb-deep-dead.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/
arts/music/vince-staples-norf-norf-mother-video.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/
arts/music/danny-brown-atrocity-exhibition-interview.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/2015/11/12/
455768224/logic-do-something-for-yourself
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/
arts/music/hip-hop-star-bobby-shmurda-in-jail-finds-his-label-unsupportive.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/
arts/music/rick-ross-promotes-mastermind-album-at-best-buy-theater.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/
arts/music/adam-yauch-a-founder-of-the-beastie-boys-dies-at-47.html
female rappers / women in rap UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/08/
we-do-what-we-want-for-ourselves-why-golden-age-women-rap
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/09/25/
553474495/cardi-b-becomes-first-solo-female-rapper-to-top-the-singles-chart-in-19-years
rap star
rap lyrics
USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/14/
opinion/rap-lyrics-on-trial.html
battle rap
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/09/
battle-rap-helped-depression
British rap
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/09/
rising-stars-uk-hip-hop
USA > queer rap
UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jun/09/
zebra-katz-rise-of-gay-rappers
rap along to the latest hip-hop hits
mixtape
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/27/
928307301/the-day-the-mixtape-died-dj-drama
mixtape
culture USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/02/24/
516874443/future-hndrxx-mixtape-culture-infiltrates-music-industry
underground mixtape USA
https://www.npr.org/2010/01/14/
122319397/the-decade-in-rap-mixtapes
dub
dub poetry
rap battles
MC / MC
MC-ing // British equivalent of rapping
urban music
UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/20/
zarif-soul-music-kindred-spirit
Christopher Sawyer breaking.
Upper West Side, November 1983.
Photograph:
Martha Cooper/Steven Kasher Gallery
A Global Search for Art and Culture on the Street
NYT
April 18, 2017
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/
a-global-search-for-art-and-culture-on-the-street-martha-cooper/
Almighty KG of the Cold Crush Brothers
at Harlem World.
1981.
Photograph: Joe Conzo
Hip-Hop? She Won’t Stop
The New York Times
Apr. 4, 2015
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/hip-hop-she-wont-stop/
JDL and Grandmaster Caz
at Club Negril.
1981.
Photograph: Joe Conzo
Hip-Hop? She Won’t Stop
The New York Times
Apr. 4, 2015
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/hip-hop-she-wont-stop
hip hop / hip-hop UK / USA
https://www.npr.org/music/genres/hip-hop/
https://www.npr.org/series/4823817/the-history-of-hip-hop
https://www.theguardian.com/music/hip-hop
https://www.npr.org/2020/12/16/
947147392/making-revolution-irresistible
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/07/
921111245/the-conspiracy-against-hip-hop
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/10/
874334270/houstons-hip-hop-scene-remembers-george-floyd
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/
853353545/andre-harrell-founding-father-of-hip-hop-soul-dead-at-59
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/25/
660173879/how-slick-rick-and-queen-latifah-breathed-life-into-hip-hop-in-1988
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/05/
lens/40-years-of-hip-hop-photos.html
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/
641599819/keepers-of-the-underground-the-hiphop-archive-at-harvard
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/
lens/from-duke-ellington-to-public-enemy-images-of-hip-hop-and-its-cultural-roots.html
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2018/jul/12/
biz-markie-rock-steady-crew-run-dmc-early-hip-hop-stars-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/
arts/music/kanye-west-album-ye.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/
t-magazine/hip-hop-music-1980s.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/09/28/
554220367/how-streaming-revolutionized-raps-album-rollouts-on-the-road-to-no-1
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/19/
551787647/the-autobiography-of-gucci-mane-a-story-of-rap-and-rebirth
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/jul/16/
the-week-in-radio-mogul-life-and-death-chris-lighty-jules-and-james-review-hip-hop-podcast-gimlet
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/06/21/
533792166/combat-medicine-afghanistan-vet-seeks-to-help-others-through-hip-hop
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/
arts/music/prodigy-mobb-deep-dead.html
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/
a-global-search-for-art-and-culture-on-the-street-martha-cooper/
https://www.npr.org/2016/04/09/
473503407/lin-manuel-miranda-talks-hamilton-once-a-ridiculous-pitch-now-a-revolution
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/oct/07/
hip-hop-raised-me-dj-semtex-rap-photography
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/13/
south-bronx-hip-hop-gentrification-the-get-down
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/
arts/music/popcast-gucci-mane-and-atlanta-hip-hop.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/06/
hip-hop-weird-image-nicki-minaj-kendrick-lamar-kanye-west
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/
arts/music/phife-dawg-tribe-called-quest.html
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/
hip-hop-smithsonian-museum-photos/
http://www.nytimes.com/video/nyregion/
100000004152144/school-of-hip-hop.html
- Jan 19, 2016
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p032ml75
http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2015/aug/21/
dmc-sneaker-culture-brooklyn-museum-video
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/14/
432146089/biopic-straight-outta-compton-tells-the-epic-story-
of-hip-hop-and-n-w-a
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/04/
hip-hop-she-wont-stop/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/
magazine/notes-on-the-hip-hop-messiah.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/19/
arts/music/asap-yams-creative-force-in-hip-hop-dies-at-26.html
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/sep/17/
def-jam-10-of-the-best-jay-z-kanye-west
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/09/
339173654/in-hip-hop-collaboration-can-lead-to-greater-success
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jul/31/
g-eazy-rapper-gentrify-hip-hop-interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/
arts/music/homophobia-and-hip-hop-a-confession-breaks-a-barrier.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/01/
books/prodigys-hnic-street-lit-from-infamous-books.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/
opinion/coates-hip-hop-speaks-to-the-guns.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/
arts/music/adam-yauch-a-founder-of-the-beastie-boys-dies-at-47.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/04/
adam-yauch-beastie-boys-significant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/29/
heavy-d-pulmonary-embolism-dvt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/shortcuts/2011/dec/21/
hip-hop-losing-homophobic-image
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/dec/13/
school-jayz-studies
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/arts/music/
hip-hop-universe-expanding.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/09/
rising-stars-uk-hip-hop
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/01/
hip-hop-dj-kool-herc
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/
arts/music/13drake.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/23
/lil-wayne-pleads-guilty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/may/18/
urban
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/
story.php?storyId=5079081 - January 2, 2006
https://www.npr.org/2005/08/30/
4824700/hip-hop-renaissance-man-ice-cube
Andre Harrell
USA 1960-2020
hip-hop and R&B mogul
and founder of the visionary label
Uptown Records
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/
853353545/andre-harrell-founding-father-of-hip-hop-soul-dead-at-59
hip-hop revolution - 1988
USA
https://www.npr.org/2018/10/25/
660173879/how-slick-rick-and-queen-latifah-breathed-life-into-hip-hop-in-1988
USA > hip-hop soul
USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/
853353545/andre-harrell-founding-father-of-hip-hop-soul-dead-at-59
USA > Southern hip-hop USA
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/21/
552449582/how-master-p-gamed-the-music-industry-and-laid-a-path-to-generational-wealth
hip-hop pioneer USA
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nyregion/
a-one-episode-show-with-a-lasting-impact-on-hip-hop.html
USA > hip-hop label > Def Jam
UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/sep/17/
def-jam-10-of-the-best-jay-z-kanye-west
https://www.npr.org/2013/05/11/
182956651/ll-cool-j-on-accidental-racist-and-authenticity
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/04/
def-jam-hip-hop-music
early 1980s USA
emerging urban blend
of graffiti, rapping, D.J.-ing
and B-boying
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/nyregion/
a-one-episode-show-with-a-lasting-impact-on-hip-hop.html
hip-hop's attitude to homosexuality UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/dec/20/
trends-2012-hip-hop-homosexuality
influenced by trip-hop and lo-fi UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/feb/08/
ghostpoet-peanut-butter-blues-stream
grime UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/grime
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/02/
love-and-respect-stormzy-apologises-over-glastonbury-headline-black-british
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2017/feb/21/
wiley-the-enigmatic-godfather-of-grime-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jan/24/
wiley-godfather-grime
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/28/
kano-live-review-liverpool-arts-club-made-in-the-manor
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/28/
grime-gave-voice-to-generation
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/12/
skepta-konnichiwa-review-boy-better-know-album-of-the-week
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/feb/25/
kano-grime-battle-culture-mc-new-album-made-in-the-manor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2013/jan/01/
scrufizzer-video-interview
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/dec/06/
a-history-of-grime
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/09/
rising-stars-uk-hip-hop
drum'n'bass UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/drum-n-bass
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/jan/30/
goldie-interview-the-alchemist
poetry set to music
garage
mixer
urban act
US garage
UK garage
hardcore
house music / house UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/frankie-knuckles
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/apr/01/
frankie-knuckles-the-music-world-pays-tribute
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/apr/01/
chicago-house-pioneer-frankie-knuckles-dies
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/oct/13/
frankie-knuckles-your-love
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jun/15/
frankie-knuckles-invents-house-music
bashment
drum & bass
trance
remix UK
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/nov/18/
comment.music
acid house UK
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/23/
acid-house-dawn-rave-new-world
new dance genre
drum'n'bass -> hardstep
UK garage
dance floor
clubber
hip-hop
USA > hip-hop producer > J Dilla / James Dewitt Yancey
(1974-2006) UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2009/jun/16/
cult-j-dilla
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/
4706602.stm -
12 February 2006
cutting edge hip-hop
chill-out / trip-hop
trip-hop > Portishead
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portishead
underground
underground legend UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/oct/23/
rudy-ray-moore-obituary
electronic music UK
https://www.theguardian.com/music/
electronicmusic
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Rap, Trap, Hip-Hop, Grime
Hip-Hop Universe, Expanding
December 9, 2011
The New York Times
By JON CARAMANICA
This is independent hip-hop’s New Weird America moment, where
rappers in every city are pursuing idiosyncratic tangents, sustaining themselves
with Internet-generated fan bases that vary in size from extremely tiny to
medium.
A decade ago, to be independent was to make the best of getting the proverbial
short end of the stick. Hip-hop had made its commercial breakthrough, but that
success didn’t trickle down to everyone. Instead it created new sounds and new
attitudes, and gave birth to the idea that there was more than one path to
artistic vindication.
But today’s independent hip-hop movement, if it can be called that, is still
looking for a cohesive argument. Unlike the independent rap of the
mid-to-late-1990s, which was lyrically and sonically hyperdense, often dystopian
and dogmatically anticapitalist, this scene has only a distribution mechanism,
the Internet, in common. It has room for outcasts of all stripes.
That was clear on Tuesday night at Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg, at a
showcase sponsored by, of all institutions, the indie-rock-leaning New York
concert-information blog Brooklyn Vegan, filling a void left by traditional
hip-hop media. The show featured three acts — G-Side, the headliner, from
Huntsville, Ala.; the rapper whose name is printable only when shortened to
eXquire, from Brooklyn; and Cities Aviv, from Memphis. Each of these acts tells
a story about making hip-hop on the fringes of the mainstream in 2011, but the
stories are not the same.
At best, they have tradition in common — not outright nostalgists, or
unreasonably emulative, they owe a heavy stylistic debt to the 1990s, both the
mainstream and the underground.
Of these acts, G-Side is the least oppositional, the most harmonious and the
most established. In the last year alone, this duo — Yung Clova and ST 2 Lettaz
— has released two impressive albums, “iSLAND” and “The One ... Cohesive” (Slow
Motion Soundz) that place it directly in the lineage of great, organic,
melody-minded Southern hip-hop like Goodie Mob and UGK. A video the group
recorded this summer of a transfixing a capella rendition of its song “My Aura”
on a Chicago street at night is one of this year’s most vibrant hip-hop clips.
At this show, the two men exuded easy confidence, when performing their own
boastful, smooth songs, or over the beat from “Paris,” the shortened title of
the hit by Kanye West and Jay-Z , or when ST 2 Lettaz rapped largely
unaccompanied about stressful situations at home. Even the duo’s two backup
singers — Joi Tiffany and PH — were savvy, varying tones and speeds, adding a
delirious and mature texture to the proceedings.
The G-Side sound may be an anachronism, but as Southern hip-hop has become more
brittle and militaristic, it feels more radical, which is why it has a home in
the new underground. The same goes for Cities Aviv, whose lullingly pretty album
“Digital Lows” (Fat Sandwich), with its proclivity toward warm soul and neatly
articulated storytelling, is reminiscent of thoughtful 1990s independent-rap
rarities like the Nonce and Natural Elements. There’s chillwave in his music,
though it’ll probably be gone by his next album — besides, chillwave, last
year’s Internetcentric fuzzy post-rock movement, didn’t get enough credit for
repurposing smooth 1980s soul, which was a worthy strategy.
Cities Aviv opened this show, switching between two microphones for different
vocal effects, though at times he got drowned out by the more diffuse of his
productions. But there was an urgency to his performance, which cut through the
haze most of the time.
He was not heavy handed, though. That fell to eXquire, who arrived on stage with
a crew of a half-dozen, a throwback to New York rap shows of the ’90s. With a
tangle of colorful chains around his neck and an omnipresent mischievous smile,
eXquire is an appealing goofball. In interviews, he’s professed his love for
coloring, as in books. He would have been a BET star in the mid-’90s or, at
minimum, a “BET Uncut” star.
That’s because there’s no shortage of raunch on his recent mixtape “Lost in
Translation” (Mishka), a sharp tragicomedy about making music in the face of
emotional and financial devastation. Of the acts at this show, eXquire is the
closest to the independent hip-hop ideal of a decade ago; that he samples
Cannibal Ox, one of that era’s great groups, only drives home that point.
At this show, he was pure charisma, especially on his breakout hit “Huzzah!” And
he sprinkled references throughout, quoting from Method Man and Lil Kim and,
improbably on “Build-a-Bitch,” from Drake. eXquire rapped that last song
shirtless and at one point grabbed at the empty innards of his jeans pocket,
looking despondent.
But only 15 minutes earlier, in the middle of his set, he was messing with a
scrawny white guy in the crowd, asking him a lewd question over and over, then,
when he finally answered, ripping the microphone away and starting into a song.
After he was done, he locked eyes with his target and offered a huge grin and a
sincere apology.
“I’m really sorry,” he said. “You part of the show now. Put that on your
Tumblr.”
Hip-Hop Universe, Expanding,
NYT,
9.12.2011,
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/
arts/music/hip-hop-universe-expanding.html
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https://www.npr.org/sections/microphonecheck/
The History of Hip-Hop
FRESH AIR FEATURES INTERVIEWS
WITH SOME OF THE GREATEST NAMES
IN HIP-HOP HISTORY.
https://www.npr.org/series/4823817/the-history-of-hip-hop