hip Hop

Totally Hip Hop
$11.96
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best- gossip folks, in da wind, so fesh so clean, etc.

bad- rock the party, what you got, what about us, tell me



"im just so freash, so clean (so freash and so clean)"
-Outkast (F/Sleepy Brown)- So Fresh, So Clean

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go get all the g-unit/shady/aftermath cds toooooooooooo

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
$14.99
I was hip hop. A `70s baby, my teenage years stretched across hip
hop's awakening into proud and empowering lyrical expression. It
was a chain link of similarities, connecting the dots of every urban
experience, expressing the voice of every ghetto. Like Common, I
used to love H.E.R. But then, somewhere in my twenties, she abandoned
me. I became nothing more than a groupie, a video accessory and a
derogatory term. And my male counterparts became
unrecognizable, fake shadows of long forgotten pimps and, "keeping
it real," fools.

M.K. Asante remarkably captures the incredulous struggle that those
like me, the post hip hop generation, face when reconciling past hip
hop loyalty with current hip hop disdain.
IT'S BIGGER THAN HIP HOP is a classic work, a creative and
innovative approach to examining what hip hop was and is, and how
its growth and subsequent stagnation affect generations.

An example of his entertaining approach is demonstrated in Chapter
3, What's Really Hood?, when M.K. Asante engages in a colorful and
testy interview with "the ghetto." Yes, the ghetto finally speaks
and he has some truth to spread. As "the ghetto" explains his
history dating back from 1611, correlating past "ghettoization" with
modern Urban Renewal, he reminds the post hip hop generation of the
ignorance in blaming the poor for poverty.

In Chapter 10, Two Sets of Notes, M.K. Asante captures the struggle
of being taught incomplete truths, being fooled by "selective
memory," losing who we are as a people inside of the incessant white
lies. His poem reminded me of my public school frustration, when
black and brown history was a footnote on the school agenda and I
had to join the Youth NAACP and, to my Baptist mother's horror, the
Nation of Islam seminars in an attempt to learn about me.

M.K. Asante won me over early on, when he articulated how the reel
becomes the real. It's an argument you thought you heard before, but
never quite applied in this way. But M.K. Asante's logic makes
perfect sense, especially if you, like me, often wonder why a
suburban black boy tries so hard to be "thug life" or a middle class
black child works overtime to prove his "realness." It's a mind-
boggling epidemic that I never understood, until now.

IT'S BIGGER THAN HIP HOP speaks candidly to the post hip hop
generation, challenging us to take a deeper look and a more
introspective approach into who and what we really are, reminding us
that the struggle is ever present.

Reviewed by a. Kai
for The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

Millennium Hip-Hop Party
$18.98
These totally 90s stars appear disguised as a millenium dance party. I really like G Thing and Baby Got Back, maybe Humpty Dance, overall just a shallow not satisfying compilation to retain your sense of humor. Whites are a minority.

Hip Hop Hits
$17.98
Packed with 7 #1 hits from the day, Hip Hop Hits runs
the dial from gangsta rap to West Coast hip hop and
Jamaican roots rap to hip-pop, making for one phat
compilation of the hip hop genre.
We've got the biggest hits from the late 80s through
2001 including Just Coolin , Gangsta 's Paradise, Whoomp
(There It Is), Country Grammar and Shoop. Featured
artists are Nelly, Naughty By Nature, Ice Cube, 2 Live
Crew, De La Soul, Queen Latifah and Method Man
featuring Mary J. Blige. It's an ultimate CD of hip hop
music sure to get the party started.