This year poster girl for the cross cultural globalization of Hip Hop ( and one of our favorites) has had an incredible ride from #1 club hit to collaborating with Jay Z, Lil’ Wayne, Santogold and othersMIA is not only nominated for a Brit Award but a Grammy for her album Kala and an Oscar [...]
Entries Tagged as 'world up'
M.I.A. talks Sri Lanka Politics and the meaning behind Paper Planes
February 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Brit Awards, Diplo, Global Hip Hop, Grammys, International Hip Hop, Jay Z, Kala, Lil' Wayne, M.I.A., Mad Decent, Oscars, Paper Planes, Santogold, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tavis Smiley, genocide, hip hop, maddecent.com, world up, worldup, worldup.org, www.worldup.org
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Now Hip-Hop, Too, Is Made in China.
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Chinese Hip Hop, Global Hip Hop, International Hip Hop, Uncategorized, world hip hop, world up, worldup, worldup.org, www.worldup.org
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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More rumbling from Bogota: Choc Quib Town and Oxmo Poccino
December 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Bogota, Global Hip Hop, International Hip Hop, Oxmo Poccino, choc quib town, world hip hop, world up, worldup, worldup.org
Recently we noticed that Choc Quib Town’s debut album officially released 3 years ago in Colombia was starting to gain some ground as it was officially released globally this past year and has made many a best of list in honor of that here is a little bit about one of their recent global collabs..this [...]
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Somalia back on the beat: K’naan’s New Video
December 19th, 2008 · No Comments · 4Real, Direct Current Media, K'naan Somalia, world up, worldup, www.worldup.org
we’ve long been fans of K’naan and are super amped to see what album #2 brings. Look for it January 13th
Somalia.
The name alone conjures up images of unbridled destruction, merciless warlords and ruthless terror. A place where nobody–children, the elderly, religious figures–is safe from the atrocities of war, and where the idea of “childhood,” where [...]
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oh snap….. we have a ton of things to post..NARCY GETS APOLOGY FROM BUSTA
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Allhiphop.com, Arab Money, Busta Rhymes, Iraq, Narcicyst, Narcy, world up, worldup.org
first off…..
our favorite Iraqi MC and good friend, the Narcicyst (aka NARCY), get a formal apology (and a phone call) from Busta Rhymes over his polemic song “Arab Money” check it out.
Only hours after expressing his outrage over Busta Rhymes’ controversial song “Arab Money,” Iraqi-born rapper The Narcicyst told AllHipHop.com that he received a [...]
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