Hip-hop (beyond beats & rhymes).

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Simmons, Russell, on-screen presenter.

Nas (Musician), on-screen presenter.

Jackson, Curtis, 1975- on-screen presenter.

Mos Def (Rapper), on-screen presenter.

KRS-One (Musician), on-screen presenter.

Tillard, Conrad, interviewee.

Hurt, Byron, 1970- narrator.

Peterson, James, speaker.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hip-hop--Influence.

Hip-hop.

Rap (Music).

Rap musicians--Attitudes.

Rap musicians.

Genre:

Nonfiction television programs.

Internet videos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 48 sec.)) : sound, colour

Place of Publication:

Northampton, Massachusetts : Media Education Foundation, [2015]

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

Filmmaker Byron Hurt reaches out to hip-hop artists and fans, as well as academics and culture critics, to explore the reasons hypermasculinity, violence, and the sexual objectification of women have become so central to hip-hop music.

Participant:

Presenters, Russell Wendell Simmons, Nasir 'Nas' bin Olu Dara Jones, Curtis '50 Cent' James Jackson, Yasiin 'Mos Def' Bey, Lawrence 'KRS-One' Krisna Parker ; interviewees, Conrad Tillard and others ; interviewers, Byron Hurt and others ; speakers, James Peterson and others ; narrators, Byron Hurt and others.

Notes:

Previously issued: 2006.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 10, 2015).

ISBN:

1-4739-2900-8

9781473929005

OCLC:

1001337852