World Up

As the regular readers know, a large part of what World Up tries to focus our attention to is the academic side of this globalization of Hip Hop culture and how people from around the world are taking this music and “lifestyle” they grew up with and remixing it within their own cultural context. We’ve [...]

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Today our friend Greg over at the Global Hip Hop Market posted his top 10 list for the year. Admittedly, we are way behind on our music listening from 2008 as we all went on hiatus to work for Rock The Vote. Here is our top 10 in no particular order:
Top 10 2008
1. Estelle - [...]

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Somehow we missed this fall debut from the UK’s Mongrel but we are really feeling it. One part hip hop and one part indie rock, Mongrel cites Public Enemy and the late the political punk band Crass as influences. They are made up of MC Lowkey ex Arctic Monkeys and Babyshambles members and amongst [...]

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Jimmy Wang, NYT. Jan. 24, 2009.
January 24, 2009
By JIMMY WANG
BEIJING — A week before Americans tune in to the Super Bowl, another televised mega-event will kick off on the other side of the globe. On Sunday more than half a billion people here are expected to watch the annual Chinese Lunar New Year gala. Organized [...]

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