Why grief sometimes looks like a hyphy party

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

On August 11, 1973, hip-hop was born at a house party in the Bronx. 50 years later the genre has been reshaped in the image of cities and regions around the world. Brittany is joined by KQED's Pendarvis Harshaw to do a deep dive into one hip-hop scene from the Bay Area known as hyphy. They unpack how the loud, brash, hyperactive music helped a community grieve.

To hear more of Pendarvis Harshaw's reporting on this Bay Area music scene, check out the Rightnowish series: Hyphy Kids Got Trauma.

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0:14.0	Hello, hello, I'm Brittany Loose and you're listening to
0:20.0	it's been a minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen
0:26.1	by accident. On August 11th, 1973, hip-hop was born at a house party in the Bronx. Since then, it's been remade in the image of cities
0:44.4	all around the world. For the genre's 50th birth year we're diving into
0:49.6	regionalism, the way that hip-hop sounds different depending on where it's coming from.
0:54.5	For me, the first time I really understood regionalism was when I first stepped
0:59.3	onto the campus of Howard University. H
1:05.2	I couldn't get over just how different everyone styled themselves
1:08.4	depending on where they were from.
1:10.6	There were the Callie girls and their silk presses despite the humidity.
1:14.0	The PG County girls in their poetic justice braids.
1:18.0	You know!
1:20.0	Kids from Atlanta and Detroit gooochee down to the socks.
1:25.0	Grab the camera, grab the camera.
1:26.0	And New York boys and crisp denim, fresh white teas and sneakers.
1:30.0	The gangsters in D. wearing sweaters tied around their waist.
1:36.3	Like, you know what I'm saying?
1:38.2	You know, and I was like, dang, like I wish I could do that in the town because it gets
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