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07.14.04 02:10 AM
black hip-hop bloggers stand up
if you're black, and you blog, and you blog about hip-hop please, please, please, go over to hashim's site and let him know here.
you see there are a lot of discussions about hip-hop happening on blogs that include race, and there are no black bloggers commenting in those spaces. not only are they not commenting in those spaces, they're not commenting about hip-hop and race or hip-hop in general on their own blogs.
holla' at that boy and let him know there is a black hip-hop blog voice out there. and soon i'll be asking for the feminist (womanist) hip-hop bloggers to rise up. and as my boy mark anthony neal says in this article, you don't have to be female to be feminist.
addendum: check out mike's cogent post that continues this discussion. it has me thinking that perhaps the reason that black bloggers don't specifically blog about hiphop is because it is not quite a phenomenon to us that has to be examined in the same way that other bloggers of other ethnicities might. just a supposition here.
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Comments
What does it mean to "blog about hip hop"? Are you referring to deep, criticism and analysis of hip hop music and culture or general "I like..." or "I hate..." type of posts because I seem to see the latter frequently, at least with the younger bloggers. At the very least, their blogs are infused with hip hop which, in itself, is a common denominator worth noting. Can the same be said of blogging and another genre of music?
posted by j. brotherlove | July 14, 2004 8:22 AM #
Damn,
I keep forgetting to put up my hip-hop review (as limited as they are) on my site. I hear what Hashim is saying, naw mean. However, I'm just a lazy bastard with alot going on these days. I have three reviews to complete this week. Once those get the okay I'll post them also.
I have my laptop so I'll finally get those reviews up. I wish URB magazine had a better website with all hip-hop reviews that are linkable.
posted by funkdigital FKA Metalface | July 14, 2004 10:36 AM #
Posted. And, yes, I am Black. Thanks for the love, dear...
posted by KB | July 14, 2004 4:21 PM #
Check this out:
Black Blogz -->
http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=blackblogz;action=list
I stumbled upon this webring above Sunday night.
I have read at least five black writers (and there are more) whom I've deemed are "hip-hop bloggers" under Mike's definition.
[Read Mike's post: http://tradermike.net/movethecrowd/archives/2004/07/all_the_black_hip_hop_bloggers_be_quiet.php#comments]
I don't have the time to sift through all 114 black blogs to verify whether or not they are hip-hop bloggers or not.
But as far as I'm concern, the notion that they ARE NO BLACK HIP-HOP BLOGGERS out there blogging, is not necessarily true.
However, we need to support one another and continue to encourage writers to blog as often as they can -- hip-hop related and otherwise.
The webring I posted above is full of black bloggers, including 35 to 40-year-old black bloggers(!!!). Even some female hip-hop bloggers. (at least under Mike's definition)
The digital divide is not so DIVIDED or AGE-IST. We need to start spreading the love. There are mad writers out there.
Do we need more hip-hop bloggers?
Hell yeah, no doubt.
There is certainly not enough Latino bloggers or Latino hip-hop bloggers.
Is there a dearth of black hip-hop bloggers?
I don't think so. There out there but we need more to represent . . .
Side note: I just read KB's blog, "Bucco." His blog is hot to death. I didn't know this guy existed. Big ups! I'm not kissing ass or looking for a "link up." I'm just giving props.
Anyway, there are a lot of black hip-hop bloggers out there . . . we just need to shine a light on them.
posted by Trent | July 19, 2004 4:00 AM #
thanks trent. i used to belong to that blog ring http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=blackblogz;action=list as well as http://www.ringsurf.com/netring?action=info&ring=cocoablogz and http://ringsurf.com/netring?action=stats&ring=BlogsOfColor but even on http://www.bloghop.com/ and http://blogsnob.simpleads.net/ or any other type of service that brings bloggers together you can find some of the types of blogs we're talking about not a lot of folks are linked up yet it's about putting them on blast and giving them some shine
posted by lynne | July 19, 2004 9:02 AM #
Talking about jumping on the bang wagon! Now that Kanye West has won a Grammy everybody wants to jump on.
I read an article attributed to hiphop-elements.com saying that Kanye is asking to be paid for magazine photoshoots featuring him on the cover.
Apparently, this has created a stir in the publication world 'cuz like the dude from Esquire says they are notoriously cheap and never want to pay for anything.
It seems to me that hip hop artists and musicians in general are the only people who make something "their music" and everybody lines up to "free load".
It is not done with brand name clothes, sneakers or anything else that's manufactured.
We expect to pay for "the crap" that's made in China, South America, India or wherever by cheap labor or child labor, marked up 700% and we never question these people but a musician should give away his product.
It is time that we take our heads out of the proverbial sand and wake up and smell the coffee or the roses 'cuz certain of us who support or like musicians want to pay for what entertains us and what we enjoy.
To all the free downloaders out there who feel that musicians owe them a living - buy music just like you would any other commodity that traded and sold.
"Got a Buck? Buck a Trend"
posted by Nathan | February 24, 2005 10:34 PM #
I think us as black people need to embrace each other more in this black art form, Hip-Hop and be concious of others trying to take whats are and that is are culture!
posted by tel-12 | March 3, 2005 3:11 PM #
what i don like with us black people we all ways disrespect one another by calling each eather niga. we all ways blame the white man saying the do this and they do that but is we how give them power.
so the use it .respect to every one even if you dont respect me its all good
posted by blakkathon | October 16, 2005 4:39 PM #
Your last comment was write on point! It really isn't as fascinting to us. We just live it!
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