Old School Hip-Hop Classic Videos - The Pharcyde - "Passin Me By"

KRS-ONE:The Teacha

If you haven't checked out this book, you are sleeping on what Hip-Hop's true essence is. If headz only knew. Take some time outta your busy schedule and pick this joint up. It is something you can carry with you for a lifetime.

Respect Due

After another hiatus from doing blogs and crazy other web stuff, at this moment I've found time to post something. Today's post is about respect. Respect for all urban cultures that involve Hip-Hop as a piece of it. So my respect goes out to Graffiti writers. Now we all think that writing on someone else's property isn't cool. Repeat. It is not cool writing on someone else's property. Fact. I respect tagging though, I used to do it. Did throw ups on clean walls and helped in countless bombing runs. It's all about a rebellion that taggers and artist have inside. To be seen and felt through vision. To say I did that, it's me look. Through the trials of life I have grown to a point that I don't need to do this any more. I've found glow in other parts of the culture without defacing property. Without that rebellious drive I had when I was young I would not be where I am today. So Graffiti, big ups to you on this day... Also, check out this movie. It's tight.

B-Boys Live On

Despite mainstream belief, b-boys do not necessarily break exclusively to hip hop. Original breaks from DJ Kool Herc, Bambaataa were taken from old soul and funk records therefore these dance moves were developed over this genre of music. If not this type, b-boys will prefer most break beats from ‘80s tracks. Modern main-stream hip hop is generally not designed for breaking with no specific break sessions to move around. Music is of the utmost importance to a b-boy. A true artist finds it imperative to have sound knowledge of breaking music in order to understand and carry the ability to dance to it. This concentrated knowledge of the music is displayed with moves as a b-boy highlights specific focal points in each song, narrating with their motions perhaps with a freeze, which is often humorous as well as impressive. (Although the term break-beats sounds like a name for what b-boys break to, it is mostly used to refer to certain genres in electronica.)

 

Into The Future....

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Graffitti Bridge

The original “Voice of The Ghetto” before the emcee took the mic and turned up the volume,  graffiti started as one of the very first expressive movements of the ghetto uprising.