By 2006, Swiss dub producer The Friday Five With DJ Enki
Curmudgeons like me bemoan the slow, agonizing death of the album–which is being bludgeoned mercilessly by today's short-attention-span theater of singles and individual downloads–for a lot of reasons. Like, remember when you couldn't get over on a single, a remix, and a stupid video, but actually had to have a front-to-back solid album to be considered good? Remember concept albums that actually worked and didn't get smothered by their own pretentiousness?
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- 02/23/2007
Rampant gender stereotypes abound in hip-hop (hello Lil' Kim). Fortunately, there are folks like filmmaker Byron Hurt in the world. Hurt's recent documentary, Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, delves beneath the underbelly of the genre to examine its less-than-glamorous aspects, and his involvement in the Rap Sessions 2007 National Hip-Hop Discussion tour sees him doing similar work. This year's theme: Does hip-hop hate women?
