Keeping her career bedazzled and afloat in a male-dominated genre is something she’s writing about in her coming memoir. McCullock was fuelled by a love of reggae and the urge to ensure her Jamaican background was sewn directly into (or onto) her stage clothes.
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The film series is one of several forthcoming projects that aim to examine how female MCs and rappers fused their sounds with a vision that distanced them from hip hop’s blatantly macho roots. Co-produced by MC Lyte – a Brooklyn-based artist who rapped on Sinéad O’Connor’s 1988 hit, I Want Your (Hands On Me) – it explores the ways women have shaped this enduring style of music. One of the most anticipated projects is the Netflix documentary series Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop (premiering Aug.
16) in New York’s Hall des Lumières displays archival footage of hip-hop pioneers in an immersive experience being sold as “a multisensory, visual mixtape.”įashion mixtape: Visual outtakes from 50 years of hip hop’s stylish sovereigns
Across the border, Hip Hop Til Infinity (closes Sept. The Ottawa Art Gallery, for example, mounted 83 ‘Til Infinity: 40 Years Of Hip-Hop in the Ottawa–Gatineau Region, an exhibit on the genre’s Canadian roots (it closes Feb. Tourism boards and cultural spaces around the world have announced a slew of celebratory block parties, happenings and exhibitions to observe the substantial effects of the momentous occasion. 11, 1973, as the day hip hop was born, at a party in the Bronx where DJ Kool Herc played the same song on two turntables while rapping. While not nearly as unrelenting as the Barbie movie’s marketing campaign, social media shout-outs for hip hop’s coming 50th anniversary started as early as Jan 1.
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