Tag: hip-hop
Culture of Pop
BET Hip-Hop Awards Weekend Recap
This past weekend, some of the biggest stars in the world of hip-hop descended on Atlanta for the annual BET Hip-Hop Awards. The event has taken place in Atlanta since 2006. Since that first year,...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Kurtis Blow “Basketball”
Image courtesy of Pavel Medzyun/Flickr . Basketball is my favorite sport I like the way they dribble up and down the court Just like I’m the king on the microphone so is Dr. J and...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Action Bronson's Blue Chips 2
NEW YORK - Eastern Conference semifinals 1995: The New York Knicks are down by two points (97-95) to the Indiana Pacers with five seconds left and the ball in Patrick Ewing's hands...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywR6vWbU6cg Flushing, Queens...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Jay Z, Game 6
Image courtesy of Daniele Dalledonne/Flickr. Considering Jay and 'Ye once played " Ni**as In Paris " a dozen times at a single show during the Watch the Throne tour, we thought they might be a...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Public Enemy, Rebel Without a Pause
Image courtesy of Amnesia Ibiza/Flickr . “Simple and plain give me the lane; I’ll throw it down your throat like Barkley” " Rebel Without a Pause " circa 1987 by the mega rap group Public...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Jay Z Encore
Image courtesy of Rich Thane/Flickr . The first three tracks of The Black Album , Jay Z's once-and-for-all declaration that he is hip hop's greatest living artist, are firmly oriented to the album's overarching themes:...
Culture of Hoops
The idiocy of banning the n-word in sports
Sports have been at the forefront of some controversial discussions lately. The most recent issue surrounds the use of the word, "nigger" and all of its variations, by players in locker rooms and in their...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Ice Cube “It was a good day”
Image courtesy of DVious Buckets . Which M.J. caused Ice Cube to say “It was a good day?” “Get me on the court and I am trouble Last week messed around and got a triple...
Culture of Hoops
NBA Hip Hop Lyric of the Week: Jay Z
Image courtesy of Matthew Harrison/Flickr . Hip hop music and the NBA have been intertwined since the early days of rap. Everyone knows that rappers want to be ballplayers and ballplayers want to be rappers....
Culture of Hoops
Baselines vs. Bass Lines
Hoops and hip-hop merged together as a unified cultural phenomenon around the world in the last couple of decades. The video below is a tribute to the two cultures merging as one, extracting hip-hop lyrics...
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