Special Feature: The Roots of Rap in California

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The LA Uprising exploded racial and economic injustices simmering under the surface of Los Angeles into the open. From LAist Studios, season 2 of California Love: K-Pop Dreaming, host Vivian Yoon takes a look 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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0:45.0	On Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, there was a very, very popular nightclub right there
0:52.0	where hip-hop was just coming.
0:53.4	We go easy he was there, ice tea, all the big names in the city just go there and check new
0:59.8	wrappers.
1:01.5	This is Namdi Moetta, the host of a radio show called Radio Afredicia on KPFK, a radio station based here in Los Angeles.
1:10.0	I remember ICT or E or E or EZE. put a microphone, they're ready to talk, they're ready to give you some
1:17.1	rhymes right there on the mic.
1:20.0	Namdi covered the hip-hop scene in LA during the 80s as part of a radio series called
1:24.6	Roots of Rap, which traced the roots of rap music back to Africa.
1:29.3	Namdi went to different clubs and shows around the city with this microphone, capturing the sounds of the burgeoning
1:34.4	hip-hop scene.
1:37.0	My name is in Namdi.
1:40.0	The hip-hop scene was getting really huge. I mean, the numbers were... The many people to get serious really nobody ever believe it will be where it is today
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