Julian Alexander NMSU HHA Alumni

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Where Minorities Stand in the World of Entertainment

by Julian Alexander, filmmaking graduate

from the Creative Media Institute

at New Mexico State University

When the Beat Was Born Interview

When the Beat Was Born Interview
with author Laban Carrick-Hill

and illustrator Theodore Taylor III

by Lee Rhyanes

DOWNLOAD (PDF): click here

If unable to access via link please email

hiphopalumni@gmail.com for PDF*

In 2016, When the Beat Was Born, DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

was selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Award after receiving a total of

15,146 votes from grade school children throughout Texas.

Read more about the text and the authors by downloading the 

When the Beat Was Born Interview from the link above.

Peace.

Hip Hop Alumni 2016 Update

Hip Hop Alumni 2016 Update

 hiphopalumni.blogspot.com

twitter.com/hiphopalumni 
@hiphopalumni

To visit us on YouTube check out youtube.com/hiphopalumni; channels organized in categories from Hip Hop to Soul, to heroes, issues, and other topics.

On Twitter you can see the feed at twitter.com/hiphopalumni

On Google Blogger there are two locations, hiphopalumni.blogspot.com and the new addition for 2016, Hip Hop Stacks which will feature HHA's Hip Hop Stacks catalogue history and current titles HHA recommends to libraries, along with author interviews and reviews.  To visit the Hip Hop Stacks blog check out hhstacks.blogspot.com

#AFAM126_2015 Summer Session 15'

Summer Session 2015
We now on the mobile @hiphopalumni
#AFAM126_2015 #ClassInSession
@PennStateBerks  #HipHopEd

 

#HHbeAtz10

The KRUX 91.5 FM Archive #kruxlife

The KRUX 91.5 FM Archive
#kruxlife

Featured on HHA's Soundcloud page is a playlist archive that will include clips and highlights from the KRUX 91.5 FM radio program which broadcasted at New Mexico State University between the years of 2000 to 2008.  Programs include Lee's Hip Hop Show, Soul Session, and The Representation Show... hosted by HHA's Lee Rhyanes.  Rotation included all genres including interviews and guest appearances.  In addition, playlists that were documented will be posted with the audios in the Soundcloud track information.  

The first audio post features Carlos Andres Gomez reading a poem titled 'Wordsworth'.  The poem was recorded over lanline and was accompanied by the instrumental ((Lyrically Exposed Pt. 2)) by Obscure Disorder after rotation of the Algorithms' ((Indigenous B-Boy/Midas Remix)) off of the Banana Clip Vol. 3.  Check it out!  Updates will be shared on the HHA Blogger space and twitter.com/hiphopalumni for all KRUX 91.5 FM Archive updates, #kruxlife.

KRUX 91.5 FM Archive: click here

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Hip Hop Stacks Blogspot

 

Hip Hop Stacks

Blogspot catalog of hip hop literature, scholarship, music, media, journals, news and links.

Link: hhstacks.blogspot.com

Lecture Q-Tip w/ Jeff Mao

Q-Tip!
(click on image)

HHA Theatre: Time is Illmatic

Trailer: YouTube click here

Time is Illmatic
timeisillmatic.com

OGSV @ KRUX 91.5 Radio April 4, 2014

OGSV @ KRUX 91.5 Radio
April 4, 2014

B.Thunder (standing far left) - Chris
B.Dune (On the Mic far left) - James
B.Gravity (headphones middle 1) - Justin
B.Chess (smiling, middle 2) - Lecroy
B.Ronin (far right writing) - Benjeem
B.Fire (on the lens) - Phil
B.Darkness (on our mind) - Brian

 

 B.Fire w/ Lens!

B.Ronin writing...

B.Dune of the Fresh Produce Show

Mic time...

B.Gravity

B.Grav crackin' jokes w/ B.Dune

You're tuned in...

Hip Hop & Social Issues: Exit Interviews 2014

Hip Hop & Social Issues: Exit Interviews 2014
YouTube: click here

Video Filmed & Produced by Jakeem Kino Daniel
Directed by Jakeem & Justin De Senso

Music by IV the Polymath

This video exemplifies hip hop's power as a tool for transformative learning and pedagogy.  The students in this video took Justin De Senso's "Hip Hop & Social Issues" course at the University at Buffalo (UB) in either the spring or fall of 2013.  This course was first established at UB by Dr. Kush "B" and the university is forever in his debt.  The footage from the Cornell Hip Hop Collection was filmed during the fall of 2013 with the permission of Collection curator Ben Ortiz.  Above all, the purpose of this video is to give students of hip hop voice and permanence amid a necessary and growing culture of hip hop instruction in higher education across the globe.       

Peace,
Justin De Senso

Young Adult Life Transitions Program

Young C, Tonio, & Kid Z
YouTube: click here

Hip Hop Academy's Young C, Tonio, and Kid Z, students in the Hip Hop Alumni Academy in Buffalo, NY.  This freestyle is one of many weekly sessions.  We also work on poetry, writing, revision and lyrical analysis.  Instrumental is "Chill Beat Easy Grindin" by AVThaProducer.  The voice volume is low so headphones are suggested, peace! - Jus

Fresh Produce Radio FM

A Shout Out to Brother Dune
CLICK HERE

Tune in every Friday night 10PM to 12 midnite for the Fresh Produce Show on KRUX 91.5 FM, New Mexico State University, streaming live Mountain Time Zone from kruxradio.com/stream

TheeKinoandLeeShow

TheeKinoandLeeShow!!

Tune in every Thursday streaming live, WRUB: click here

Hip Hop & Social Issues AMS 111 Spring 2014

Spring 2014

The University at Buffalo
Department of Transnational Studies

Contemporary Popular Music Special Topics:
Hip Hop & Social Issues
AMS 111

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays
12:00 to 12:50 PM

This course will examine hip-hop's place in America and the world. We will begin the course with a simple question: Where does hip hop come from? To answer this, we will place hip-hop in its larger historical and political contexts. We will visit hip-hoppers in a 1970s New York City and then trace its history from the Jim Crow South to Kingston, Jamaica and then forward to the supposed end of the civil rights era. We will think through the implications of hip-hop's addiction to James Brown, misogyny, and all-things keepin' it real. We will listen for hip-hop's African and African American sonic roots while placing hip-hop in its present context as a world cultural movement. We will then move to issues of social justice and mass incarceration - phenomenon that hip-hoppers have been hell-bent on addressing and bringing to bear in their politics since the very beginning. To get at these and other ideas, we will focus on the following course question: Consider its roots, how and why has hip-hop changed over the past 40 years? What does this change reveal about our world and our future? And what does hip-hop's presence in the world tell us about race, class gender, and American culture? We will pay special attention to the changing roles of race, class, gender, and nation as seen in hip-hop's relationship to resistance as well as struggle for a more equal and just present.

HHA Twitter

HHA is now on Twitter!

Twitter.com/hiphopalumni

UB Students & Cornell University Hip Hop 13'

Cornell University Hip Hop Collection & University of Buffalo's
AAS 117 Crew (Article link below includes the roster of names)

Mapping Trajectory While Studying Rapping's Directory
Course Teaches UB Students the History and Social Factors of Hip Hop Genre

Article: click here

Style Wars in Buffalo, NY

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This photograph is from Hip Hop & Social Issues UB student Alana Barricks and her graffiti art in University Heights of Buffalo in collaboration with the University Heights Tool Library.  Alana informed us that the university is working on an urban renewal project through street art which includes the work of several other community artist as well.  Inspired by the film Style Wars that she saw in the Hip Hop & Social Issues course, Alana's piece can be seen just around the corner from 5 West Northrup.  Much thanks to Alana for reaching out and sharing her work! 

Hip Hop & Social Issues (AAS 117)

Key Questions for Unit 1
In order to understand Hip Hop, we must first understand...?

How are these "contexts" related?  And how do they influence one another?

What does this venn diagram teach us about Hip Hop?

Thinking about how each context is inter-related, independent,

and part of a much more complex American, African American

and global history.

Hip Hop & Social Issues (AAS 117)

Fall 2013 semester has been underway for the HHA Hip Hop & Social Issues (AAS 117) course instructed by Justin De Senso at the University of Buffalo SUNY.  Above is a Venn Diagram from Unit 1 instruction.  More information on the course will be updated soon!  Shout out to the students of Fall 2013 and the youth from YALT, Chris, Zach, & Tonio!  

New mission -- no less than a post a week to keep folks updated with the developments, including this semester's trip to the UK to take part in a panel on Ice-T, the upcoming class trip to the Cornell University Hip Hop Collection in Ithaca, New York, and tons of footage over the past two semesters from students, film makers, artist, and Hip Hoppers that have been involved with the course.

Stay tuned!

Akbar Interview Planet X

Akbar Interview 'Planet X'

Akbar Interview Pt. 1: click here
Akbar Interview Pt. 2: click here
Akbar Interview Pt. 3: click here
Akbar Interview Pt. 4: click here
Akbar Interview Pt. 5: click here