🍀 Hip Hop news that isn’t about dumb sh*te!
Plus upcoming events & conferences and some recent music releases you might like.
🍀 Peace and love. I’m writing this on my way back from presenting at the European Hip Hop Studies “Global Cipher” conference. Academics, activists, and hella Hip Hop represented lovely on the Emerald Isle. I was honored to have been invited, got to have a great time with old friends, make some new ones, and mingle with the beautiful people of Cork, Ireland. (Hence the “shite” in the title. Because I’m bi-lingual now. 🤣)
Gonna give you a couple really good “in case you missed it” links, the latest of my (now) world famous, hand-curated with love list of “Hip Hop news that isn’t about dumb sh*t!” and a few dope/interesting/varied new music picks because, why not?
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🎙️ THE MOST IMPORTANT HIP HOP PODCAST / CHANNEL / LIVESTREAM
ICYMI: A couple of super dope conversations with super dope folks pushing the boundaries about how Hip Hop can help uplift humanity in new and unique ways…
Dr. Jian Jones = Hip Hop x Occupational therapy/science. A brilliant convo about ways Hip Hop can help people recover from traumatic injuries. [WATCH or LISTEN]
Darrell Booker = Hip Hop x technology x AI x community engagement. Another incredible discussion about ways Hip Hop’s unique connection to technology can help build up both communities. [WATCH or LISTEN]
📰 HIP HOP NEWS THAT ISN’T ABOUT DUMB SH*T
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😳 The scathing Rolling Stone exposé on Diddy’s “History of Violence”
📝 Vince Staples on His New Album, Making a Netflix Series, and Where Hip-Hop Goes Next (ALSO: Vince Staples Show renewed for season 2)
🎭 Synching Ink: A Crack Ensemble Revives a Hip-Hop Legend at the Apollo Theater
📺 NPR Tiny Desk: The great Bob James
🎶 DMX Estate Strikes New Partnership to ‘Ensure His Music Lives On’
🎭 “A thrilling musical about a lesser-known part of the underground railroad”
😵 50 Cent’s Diddy documentary sold to Netflix
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📅 UPCOMING DOPE & INTERDISCIPLINARY HIP HOP EVENTS
June 2 [NYC]: Hip Hop 4 Peace Concert: A rallying call for a permanent cease fire, and an end to civilian death in Palestine, DR Congo & Sudan.
June 4 [Miami]: Art of Hip Hop Presents Justin Bua: The Beat of Urban Art
June 15 [Yonkers NY]: Battle of the Boroughs breaking battle
*** June 22 [NYC]: #HipHopEd Conference 👈 (Registration is now open!) ***
💎 FEATURED EVENT, PLUS, I’LL BE THERE! 🎉
Oct. 11-12 [Chattanooga]: Chattanooga Hip Hop Summit
Opens Sept. 8 [NYC]: FUTURA 2000: BREAKING OUT is a retrospective of this singular artist’s evolution from early graffiti art styles to his current practice of contemporary abstraction.
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Please help me continue as your guide through the interdisciplinary, innovative and inspirational Hip Hop universe. Thank you. 🙏 —MF
🆕 MANNY’S PICKS OF THE WEEK
There are plenty of places to find out about new music, but I’ll give a few picks here and there to help the cause.
Rumor has it, I have pretty good taste…
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