Straight Outta Palestine

i just watched this movie Slingshot Hip Hop on Sundance Channel. it's a fresh documentary about the first Palestinian rap group DAM, and other groups that came up after them. this mess was the bomb! inspired by the likes of Wu-tang, 2Pac, and Public Enemy, these kids risk their necks to create hip hop that they believe will be instrumental to chant down their oppressors. i don't know if i could have sat through a documentary about the Palestinean condition, but being the hip hop nerd that i am, i was easily able to stay engaged to all the political information. it was fascinating to see how these kids from a culture that can take all the hyperbolies of gangster rap literally absorb all genres of rap equally.
good stuff.

www.slingshothiphop.com

www.myspace.com/damrap
-samax

For the Love of Money...

i recently watched this again... no matter what you think of Mario Van Peebles, you gotta give it up for New Jack City! Snipes' sinister turn as the seductive, ultra-cool prototypical gangster (they hadn't started callin' 'em "gangstaz" yet...) has defined his career: Westley played this role so well, it's the ghost he's been chasing ever since! one of my boys remarked to me "i don't care WHO you talk to, EVERYBODY knows Nino Brown!", and he's right... Snipes portrayal of the original gorilla-pimp kingpin made him a houshold name! anyways, if you are one of the few who still doesn't have New Jack City in your collection, swing by the gM store and COP THAT!
uno.
-samax

A Hip Hop Movie worth watching...

opens Friday May 11th at a theater near you

http://www.hiphopproject.com/screenings/screenings.php

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