Beats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
DJ and writer Lynnée Denise marks hip-hop’s 50th year by speaking to leading names about the music, the art and the creativity of this global cultural movement. Legendary hip-hop producer Pete Rock reminisces over the last five decades, celebrating the artform, exploring its social impact and ask what lies ahead in hip-hop’s story. Artist and rapper Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 tells us how the social realism of Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5 inspired him to write rhymes.
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| 0:17.7 | Hello, this is the documentary from the BBC World Service, |
| 0:21.5 | exploring the world we live in through the work and voices of artists. |
| 0:26.0 | What's up? I'm Lynne Denise. Welcome to the Cultural Frontline. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm a California-born DJ and London-based artist and writer. |
| 0:37.9 | I first fell in love with hip-hop in 1985 when I heard Roxanne's Revenge by Roxanne Chante. |
| 0:44.4 | And learned about the role of DJs in the way they chase samples to build hip-hop as a musical archive. |
| 1:03.6 | Hip-hop is a 50-year-old cultural institution and a black mouthpiece for self-possessed youth |
| 1:10.8 | and their communities. Today we're celebrating 50 years of hip-hop. |
| 1:16.6 | Hip-hop is important because it provides a way to understand how black and brown working-class |
| 1:21.6 | bass culture has traveled around the world. Across this episode of the Coach for Frontline, |
| 1:28.6 | we'll be hearing from people that have made the music, documented the music, and shaped the music. |
| 1:34.4 | Folks who have loved hip-hop found refuge in it and also asked it to do better. |
| 1:42.1 | To me, what's beautiful about this medium, I think is that it's created for us and by us. |
| 1:50.0 | But lost Africans here that have been disconnected from our ancestors by slavery. |
| 1:56.4 | We took nothing and created something that affected the planet. |
| 2:01.2 | That's Charlie Tuna. Hip-hop is not just about the music, it brings together five elements of culture |
| 2:08.4 | in seeing, DJing, break dancing, graffiti, and the knowledge. From its earliest years, hip-hop has been |
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