Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes

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Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes provides a riveting examination of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in hip-hop culture. Director Byron Hurt, former star college quarterback, longtime hip-hop fan, and gender violence prevention educator, conceived the documentary as a "loving critique" of a number of disturbing trends in the world of rap music. He pays tribute to hip-hop while challenging the rap music industry to take responsibility for glamorizing destructive, deeply conservative stereotypes of manhood. The documentary features revealing interviews about masculinity and sexism with rappers such as Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss, and Busta Rhymes, hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and cultural commentators such as Michael Eric Dyson and Beverly Guy-Shetfall. Critically acclaimed for its fearless engagement with issues of race, gender violence, and the corporate exploitation of youth culture.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: October 3, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Author: ChallengingMedia

Length: 00:04:52
Rating: 4.63
Views: 1247576

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dynastychick3 (January 6, 2009 at 10:15 am)
Very well put!
ChristiansMustLearn (January 6, 2009 at 9:36 am)
Your ignorance betrays you. You're so in the matrix that you're saying the lines they give you. These are the lines the execs feed the artists...who feed it in the media who then have dudes like you saying it. Music is mathematics it conjures up moods and images and why should blacks be self portrayed negatively. Where are all the Jewish artists talking about "Ima burn dat k**e" or some self hate nonsense from asians? IT DOESNT EXIST. The matrix loves your self imposed hate kid. Recognize kid.
ChristiansMustLearn (January 6, 2009 at 9:32 am)
hold on. so your argument is that because rock music is violent hip hop has to "keep up with the joneses"? There's dead black people in the atlantic ocean who craved freedom and you think the best you can do is keep up with rock music by enslaving yourself? C'mon man....
behinddacurtain (January 4, 2009 at 9:07 am)
america was built on violence so its no wonder that violence is a part of america´s culture (i dont mean the native american culture)
dynastychick3 (January 6, 2009 at 10:12 am)
I believe many societies throughout history were built through violence,wars, not just the United States. It doesn't make it right, but the USA isn't alone there. I also believe the USA is not the only country where "violence" is past of the culture.
behinddacurtain (January 6, 2009 at 10:15 am)
yes but no other country is seling violence like america does u know

but i like the way u responded it is good to have different opinions but keepin it peacefull
ChristiansMustLearn (January 6, 2009 at 10:24 am)
japanese culture has violence with honor
ancient nubian culture had violence but a respect for women
rome had bloodlust for murder and vile destruction

what do US blacks want? You heard the white girl on this clip...hip hop is like picking up national geographic and seeing how the blacks live. Its like going to a zoo kids...they seein' an image of "colored people" that their grandparents saw. lazy, stupid, violent blacks. Wake up.Worse still its legitimazed cuz blaks are doing it to themselves.
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wonder who produces this stereotyping trash? has anyone looked into it? hollywood is very racist
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