Hip Hop Beyond Beats & Rhymes
Posted on: May 9, 2009
Posted in: Artists, Documentary, Featured, Movies, Video
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“Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” features revealing interviews with rappers, including Mos Def, Fat Joe, Chuck D, Jadakiss and Busta Rhymes, and hip-hop moguls Russell Simmons and Chris Lighty, along with commentary from Michael Eric Dyson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Kevin Powell and Sarah Jones and interviews with young women at Spelman College, a historically black college and one of the nation’s leading liberal arts institutions. “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” also reveals the complex intersection of culture, commerce and gender through on-the-street interviews with aspiring rappers and fans at hip-hop events throughout the country.
