Tag Archives: Hip Hop

Trying 2 understand what is ‘racism’ and what is ‘challenging the way that ppl think abt culture.’

By Carles | August 5, 2009

I recently saw a viral meme, made by Nick Cannon and Nas, and it made me think about the state of ‘hip hop / black / rap culture.’ It seems like even African Americans ‘within their ranks’ are ‘disgusted’ with how things have ‘degenerated.’ In the clip, 2 bros are in [...]

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I don’t understand French, but I think this is ‘hipster rap’ about my alternative culture

By Carles | May 24, 2009

Language is so weird, yall. Sometimes I feel like it isn’t useful, like we can just communicate with images, videos, life experiences, and memes. For example, I watched this video, and even though I don’t know French, I can ‘relate’ and ‘totally understand’ what this video is all about. I am not [...]

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Sort of want to throw a party and hire THE BLACK EYED PEAS to play it.

By Carles | April 29, 2009

Sometimes it is weird when a ’successful band’ has ‘a cool new song’ that I think sounds stupid/forced, but it is sort of like ‘a club banger’/marketed as some sort of energetic fun song.

I think that this ‘music video’ might actually be some sort of Hewlett Packard computer commercial. I feel like consumers need [...]

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Is Asher Roth the next Eminem?

By Carles | April 20, 2009

Yall I heard this new kewl rap group called Asher Rother, but then found out it is actually just 1 white dude.
In his hit song, he raps about ‘college being awesome.’ I am not sure how many people this song will appeal to, since a lot of people don’t even have a typical ‘college [...]

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