I was flipping the channel yesterday, looking for Tavis Smiley and instead I found this great documentary on the hip hop music today. If you are like me, you were a fan of the poetry of hip hop from the beginning but have been turned off by the direction that the genre has taken in recent years. No longer do there seem to be many voices within the art form but commercialism is homogenizing it into a negative, violent misogynistic one. Independent Lens: Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes talks about the evolution of hip hop and the effect that it has had on society. While it doesn't provide any answers, it does provide thought-provoking perspective.
Check your local listings and check it out!
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/
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