Damn I can't believe I didn't share this one with y'all earlier.
A friend of mine actually put me on to it (thanks Jo!) and I've been checking in regularly.
D-Nice (yeah the dude from back in the days that used to run with KRS and BDP) has a blog. Most of it is basically photo journalism which is pretty good...actually very good by the way, has started doing these shorts called True Hip-Hop Stories. The most interesting one to me so far has been how Masta Ace got to be on the classic track The Symphony.
Check out the blog and the rest of the shorts after the jump.
The D-Nice Journal and True Hip-Hop Stories
28 January 2009
17 January 2009
Hip-Hop & Movies
Alright, it's well known that hip-hop and movies go hand to hand. Most gangster thuggy-type artists make comparisons and sometimes sample actual sound bites from Scarface and the Wu who notably used many kung-fu flicks within their material, it's not hard to see the effects movies have on culture and in turn the music influenced by it.
Hell even most artists are characters to make themselves marketable, but hey we're not going to really get into all that.
I just wanted to give heads a quick update on some upcoming flicks with hip-hop artists in them.
First up is Terminator Salvation.
I'm not sure why they're digging back into the barrel on this one, but it is what it is. Common has a role in the latest installment of the terminator series. How much of a role I don't know but he's got a little face time in the trailer that's out now. I wonder if they got Arnold to make a cameo. He recently pulled out the Conan sword to signify how he would cut state taxes.
The next one is Next Day Air.
From the trailer, it looks to be a pretty funny comedy with Mos Def playing a decent sized role along side Mike Epps and a host of others.
Also on a side note a biopic of The Juice Crew that was in production was cancelled because of funding. Kind of stale when one of the most important hip-hop crews can't get the ends to create a film to tell their story.
Check out the trailers and stories after the jump:
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)