Beat This!

July 10, 2006 12:23 PM

Beat This! A Hip Hop History (BBC - 1984)
posted by vronsky (11 comments total)

If you're looking for something a little more academic, there's always Mark Anthony Neal's That's the Joint!
posted by j-urb at 1:11 PM on July 10, 2006

I've always been partial to cDc #179, Hip-Hop Primer, cDc #186, Hip-Hop Primer #2 - Part 1, and cDc #187, Hip-Hop Primer #2 - Part 2.

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posted by BeerFilter at 1:37 PM on July 10, 2006

I really enjoyed this - thanks for the link - but there is a small part of me that can never see footage on this subject from this era without thinking of Look Around You's I'm Rappin...
posted by greycap at 1:39 PM on July 10, 2006

This weekend I listened to part one of the audio companion to Can't Stop Won't Stop on Chicago Public Radio. They crammed a lot of deep history in an hour-long show, with a lot of great music to boot. Part two is next Saturday at 8:00 pm Central time. Non-Chicagoans can get it via live audio stream, or keep watching this space to see if they add it to their audio archives.
posted by hydrophonic at 1:56 PM on July 10, 2006

That was cool; thanks very much.
posted by dazed_one at 2:10 PM on July 10, 2006

Greycap please tell me that was a joke? A profiterole chef? That is just too funny.
posted by vronsky at 2:31 PM on July 10, 2006

Goodness, I remember my unbelievably cool babysitter showing me and my sister this then teaching us to breakdance.

vronsky: you thought that was real?!
posted by jack_mo at 4:29 PM on July 10, 2006

Look Around You is indeed a (very good) spoof.
posted by Mwongozi at 4:32 PM on July 10, 2006

Yeah Jack-mo, for about two seconds I must admit I did. But I am an idiot.
posted by vronsky at 4:50 PM on July 10, 2006

To be fair, I'd probably be suckered by a US equivalent to Look Around You for a minute or more - a lot of the little cues that it's a spoof must be culturally specific. (And vice versa - the first time I saw heard a clip of some genuine right-wing shock jock on MetaFilter I just assumed it was a spoof, and was stunned to find that whoever it was was real.)
posted by jack_mo at 5:12 AM on July 11, 2006

I will see your phat beats and raise you with fly ass moves and dope art. {google vid, 1h9m}
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 10:55 AM on July 11, 2006