The Hip-Hop Advocate #33: Stories of hip-hop innovation, inspiration & insight [9/10/18]

On Friday afternoon, the rapper and producer Mac Miller was found dead in his San Fernando Valley home. He was just twenty-six years old.

Former DJ and producer for the Geto Boys, DJ Ready Red (real name: Collins Adams Leysath) died from an apparent heart attack today, the Geto Boys’ Willie D confirmed to Pitchfork. He died at his home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He was 53 years old.

At around 1 p.m. Thursday afternoon, rest in peace shoutouts began pouring into Richard Strey’s social media accounts. As it appeared, the Woodbury, NJ underground rapper, better known as Rich Quick, had passed away. His passing came as a shock to many.

This wasn’t how Joe Budden planned on becoming famous. In fact, he didn’t plan much of anything. Now he’s on the charts, but not for his music. Instead, as of Thursday, Joe Budden has the No.

One recent midsummer afternoon, I trekked from Central Brooklyn to the South Bronx to meet the pioneering hip-hop journalist and feminist writer Joan Morgan, author of the new book She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

Drake made a special young fan’s birthday wish come true when he turned up at the hospital where she is awaiting a heart transplant. What a LAD. Little Sofia Sanchez was looking forward to her 11th birthday party at Lurie Children’s Hospital when the rapper turned up to surprise her.

Derek Luke can’t recall anyone teaching him to chase his dreams. That dream was a career in acting.

Nick Cannon is a busy man. When he’s not taking care of his kids, hosting award shows, working on his music or honing his stand-up skills, the 37-year-old star is on the road with his Wild ‘N Out crew.

“Pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, publishing!” chants could be heard in St. Michaels Library on August 14 when Art Integration Specialist, Baba Bomani, led an assembly on the importance of literacy by following the life and career of Frederick Douglass.

This story is the first in NPR’s new Morning Edition series produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) called The Keepers, stories of activist, archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians — keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep.

Every semester in Intro to Music Tech, we have Kanye West Day, when we listen analytically to some of Ye’s most sonically adventurous tracks (there are many to choose from.

Popular music’s most powerful couple continue to make power moves. Hip-hop superstar Jay-Z and his wife, Beyoncé, have announced a new scholarship program that will award 10 scholarships worth $100,000 each to “exceptional” high school seniors who demonstrate financial needs.

Karissa Jackson received a $100,000 scholarship from Beyonce and Jay-Z’s foundations. 11Alive’s Nick Sturdivant talked to Karissa Monday. She is expected to start college next year.

Pat Gallen reports.

Education

Photos: Motivational speaker impresses Tunnell students

Anthony Clark is ready to kick the door down.

New York, NY – For the fourth consecutive year, the TIDAL X: BROOKLYN philanthropic concert series is set to give fans an incredible music experience while elevating a worthwhile cause.

In this edition of Mic Dispatch, we explore how hip-hop artists are jumping into the novel world of cryptocurrencies.

Dee Briggs was expecting to do a routine demolition when she bought the vacant house next to her art studio in Wilkinsburg, Pa. But when Briggs walked inside for the first time, she found a bunch of personal effects left behind by the families that had lived there before it was abandoned.

As Gen Z defines the types of products that resonate with them, brands like Allbirds and S’well have stood out for their sustainable sneakers and water bottles.

Keynote speakers include industrial designer Karim Rashid; Alex Mustonen, founder and partner of Snarkitecture; celebrity designer Brian Gluckstein; and trends analyst and journalist Susanna Björklund.

HIP HOP ON FILM 1979 – 1986 September 12 – October 20 From gonzo artists shooting 16mm on the Bronx’s Grand Concourse, to Hollywood producers writing checks to cash in on a new fad, rapping, DJing, break dancing, and graffiti went way beyond the sum of their parts: it had to be on the big screen.

Acclaimed photographer and artist Jamel Shabazz is presenting Standing on the Square, his first solo exhibition in Brooklyn, at FiveMyles Gallery from Thursday, September 13 through Sunday, October 14.

J-Live is a true Hip-Hop multi-threat. He raps, he DJs, he produces, he runs a label, and he does so much more. The Brooklyn, New Yorker (who now calls Georgia home) sometimes demonstrates several talents at once.

Beatboxer Chesney Snow, recently seen on Broadway in the a capella musical In Transit, will bring his show The Unwritten Law to Dixon Place for a limited engagement in September.

This past weekend New York City graphic designer and hip-hop fan Jay Shells came to Houston to install a series of 38 purple metal signs featuring rap lyrics about the city.

Last Friday (17 August), the Abrons Arts Center’s Playhouse Theater in New York was injected with the energy of the late Gothic futurist hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist, Rammellzee, in Glowing Creation: a Rammellzee-Inspired Opera, conceived and staged by a group of 11 to 13-year-olds who pe

Percy Sledge and Tammy Wynette will soon be sharing a roof with Gucci Mane. The Alabama Music Hall of Fame is set to reveal its first-ever hip-hop exhibit, with a 2 p.m. Aug. 28 event at the museum, located at 617 U.S. 72 W. in Tuscumbia.

Students who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this year are releasing an album before the midterm elections in November, reports Angela Davis (2:20).

Following a much-publicized split from both Complex and his show Everyday Struggle, rumors surrounding a multi-million dollar deal between Joe Budden and Diddy‘s REVOLT network began to surface.

The 2018 DC Hip-Hop Theater Festival opens with four master classes where participants of all skill levels and backgrounds can learn the foundations in performance, visual art, the music business, and movement from experienced teaching artists.

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