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posted by ColdChef
on Jul 17, 2008 -
30 comments
Smart Shorties is a new CD being marketed to teachers that takes the beats from popular rap songs and rewrites them to the multiplication tables, with the intent of improving kids' math skills.
Forbes has a nice roundup on it's history, and
NPR has done a featurette on it as well At the very least, it's certainly worth a listen for the chuckle potential, but in addition to that, it's an interesting example of the now-booming
Edutainment industry, something that not only spans
CD's, but also
computer games and even
standalone video game consoles.
also, Smart Shorties is certainly
not the only "Hip-hop in the classroom" product out there,
nor is it the first.
posted by The Esteemed Doctor Bunsen Honeydew
on Jun 8, 2008 -
37 comments
Tony Silver, the director of the groundbreaking hip-hop documentary
Style Wars passed last night. He was a family friend of mine, and had been sick for several years with a irreversible brain condition. Style Wars is considered by some to be the best hip-hop film ever made, and by everyone to be the first. It was shot at the very start of the 1980s, when graffiti was still hip-hop's dominant form, and the idea of graffiti as art was brand new. I recommend checking out the deluxe DVD edition of the film Tony put together a few years ago after many years where it was only available as an expensive educational-only VHS, but you can also
check out the 1hr 10m version on Google Video.
posted by YoungAmerican
on Feb 2, 2008 -
15 comments
Suddenly, a man in a vintage hat rides up, hip-hop blaring from a glowing Plexiglas container shaped like a tropical fish set above the back wheel of his bicycle, control lights flashing. Fossil Fool, a rolling rapper from San Francisco who rides the college circuit preaching the benefits of peddling, grabs his microphone, cranks up the volume and starts to rap. Paul Freedman, aka
Fossil Fool, is one of the founders of
Rock the Bike, which makes Soul Cycles -- bicycle-based, often human-powered hi-fi and
PA systems -- for "playing clean, powerful, uplifting
music at street festivals and off-grid parties." RTB recently made a
mobile DJ booth for Austin's DJ Manny;
here's how. Attention, party-throwers: In 2008, you may well be able to
rent or borrow a Soul Cycle for your own shindig.
posted by GrammarMoses
on Oct 28, 2007 -
9 comments
Socially conscious rap and hip hop may be making a comeback, but it seems to be doing so at the expense of stereotyping and bigotry. Videos like
Read a Book (hilarious) and
Serve Below Zero may be intended to send a “good” message to the black community, but it’s hard to ignore blatant racist undertones (or overtones) in the lyrics and images.
[more inside]
posted by FeldBum
on Sep 17, 2007 -
63 comments
Tried to do some research about this technology called Trisenx, it's even been mentioned
in the blue back in the day. But honestly I gave up, because
the video and all you may extrapolate from it says everything. And yes, that's George Clinton.
posted by jeremias
on Aug 22, 2007 -
8 comments
Wordsworth... for the YouTube generation is a rapped version of ' Wandered Lonely As A Cloud'
The squirrel is the stuff of nightmares
posted by darsh
on Apr 11, 2007 -
12 comments
Youtube stars NSFW MC Mack, Little ***king Kev and Ginger Joe getting more fame then they could have possibly imagined. More inside...
posted by asok
on Feb 20, 2007 -
42 comments
The King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew Twenty years ago various rap artists got together to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (taking some inspiration from
Artists Against Apartheid). You'd think Grandmaster Melle Mel, Kurtis Blow, and Run-D.M.C. would be enough. But you'd be wrong. Lisa Lisa, Teena Marie, Fat Boys, and El DeBarge wanted in, too. All kinds of youtubey goodness here, including Ricky Martin as part of Menudo, and several solos by a scrumptious Whitney Houston.
Lyrics are
here, and you can buy the single
here
posted by Kibbutz
on Jan 14, 2007 -
2 comments
