Author Angie Thomas has become something of a contemporary prose lyricist for the new wave of young coloured youths through her breakout novels The Hate U Give and On The Come Up. Breathing a certain life into their own coming of age stories, her words prove a promising soundboard for actress Sanaa Lathan‘s foray into…
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“Relevance” is a confusing term when it’s applied to hip hop. Whenever I discuss the music I tend to switch off as soon as someone says “so and so isn’t relevant” – it’s the most overused word by those who lack the knowledge or familiarity with such a complex culture and art form (I’m not…
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There are few duos in hip-hop as dynamic as the classic pairing of Wu Tang’s Method Man and Def Squad’s Redman, two formidable emcees who have endeared across music, film, TV. Their trips down to Australia have been much too far and few between, but they have always hit hard with their off-the-wall live shows…
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