K-Pop Dreaming - Roots of Rap

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🗓️ 23 March 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The LA Uprising exploded racial and economic injustices simmering under the surface of Los Angeles into the open. Vivian looks at the events leading up to the Uprising, and the efforts following the protests to promote racial harmony in Los Angeles, including the staging of an African music festival in South Los Angeles that featured a performance by an up-and-coming Korean American rapper named Tiger JK. Years after the festival, he would go on to make a name for himself in South Korea as the “Godfather of Korean Hip-Hop”.
(Originally published March 23, 2023)

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0:31.0	On Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, there was a very, very popular nightclub right there
0:37.0	where hip-hop was just coming.
0:39.0	We go easy, it was there.
0:42.0	Icede, all the big names in the city just go there and check new rappers.
0:47.0	This is Namdi Moetta, the host of a radio show called Radio Afertisha on KPFK, a radio station based here in Los Angeles.
0:55.0	I remember Icede, or EZE, put a microphone, they're ready to talk, they're ready to give you some rhymes right down the mic.
1:05.0	Namdi covered the hip-hop scene in LA during the 80s as part of a radio series called Roots of Rap,
1:11.0	which traced the Roots of Rap Music back to Africa.
1:14.0	Namdi went to different clubs and shows around the city with this microphone, capturing the sounds of the burgeoning hip-hop scene.
1:22.0	The hip-hop scene was getting really huge.
1:28.0	I mean, the numbers were big in terms of the audience they were pulling.
1:34.0	But at that time, not many people took it seriously, really.
1:38.0	Nobody ever believed it to be where it is today, 50 years after that.
1:43.0	Hip-hop wasn't playing much on the radio at the time, and people like Namdi accessed the music through final records and cassette tapes.
1:51.0	But Namdi loved the music, and his favorite style of hip-hop?
1:55.0	For me, West Coast Hip-hop has always been the king.
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