![]() Music Features Power, Protest And Paranoia And that lack of respect leads to things like criminalization of the culture, things like inflated prison populations, generational trauma, degradation of health standards and humanity of Black people in America. And then respect-or lack thereof-for the Black community that birthed America's most dominant, consumed, tortured and profitable art form. Then, there's the power of the oral tradition of hip-hop, and then also the powers that be that rob hip-hop of its agency. There's the money that flows in through the music industry, and corporations that profit off of the imagery in hip-hop, and then also money that flows through the prison industrial complex as we know it. Imma quote the LOX here real quick: There's so much about money, power and respect. What does a rapper look like? What is considered political rap? Who is allowed to have a voice in hip-hop? So with all those things like marinating in the soup, there's so much to debate and unpack about it. The History of Hip-Hop DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of the Breakbeat ![]() It was also psychologically calcifying and certifying what a criminal in America is, and doing that by working off the building blocks of the legacy of slavery in this country. It was physically building more private prisons. That happened literally at the same time as America was constructing what we now know is the prison industrial complex. As you said, hip-hop was being birthed in the late '70s, with Kool Herc and Cindy Campbell and those back-to-school parties, laying the foundation and the blueprint of a counterculture moving to the center and becoming pop culture. They intersect and intermingle a lot more than people think they do. The thing that we're trying to really spell out in our show is that these phenomena are not disparate. Sidney Madden: I love how you said two phenomena in America, because these are strictly American born-and-bred pieces of societal ethos. Rodney Carmichael: When you think about it from a pop culture standpoint, hip-hop was definitely before everything else in terms of commenting on and critiquing the criminal justice system and Black America's relationship to it. So how has mass incarceration shaped hip-hop? Coincidentally, hip-hop was born in the late '70s, so these two things were overlapping phenomena. Meanwhile, Cypress Hill released their album Back in Blacklast year.Over the last 40 years, the nation's prison population has exploded and we've seen a ratcheting up of policing. The new song comes after Trueno dropped “Dubai” with Beny Jr and EPs of both his NPR Tiny Desk performance and live versions of Bien o Mal earlier this year. “For performers, I’d love to have Charly Garcia, Cypress Hill, and then 50 Cent comes on followed by Mercedes Sosa, for example.” “I’d love to make a dream show with a combination of Argentine music and hip-hop, which are two styles of music I learned and grew up with,” he says. ![]() The rap star says he also has an “out of the ordinary” dream of one day throwing a show at Buenos Aires’ La Bombonera featuring the biggest artists in hip-hop, both old and new-school, along with Argentine legends. Trueno says Cypress Hill was the only rap group he saw growing up that “worried about both Spanish and English audiences” in their music-making, which influenced his own approach to artistry growing up in Argentina. “In Latin America, one would have to translate every song that you liked or search up the lyrics and break your back with it even when the internet wasn’t as advanced as it is today.” “I remember not only the music, but also being able to hear the song in both Spanish and English versions, which rarely ever happened,” he says.
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