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“Some barriers aren’t as impermeable as we think. Telling a story on a page and telling a story against a backing track certainly are different, but they’re not irreconcilable.” The Line interviews writer and rapper Dessa of the Doomtree collective.…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rafael Casal
Rafael Casal is known in the Bay Area hip hop community from his three appearances on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and his music video Bay Area Slang, where he rattles off 100 slang terms invented in the Bay Area.
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The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Good news! Your humble Rumpus Sunday editor, who was locked inside the Public Storage in North Berkeley for the better part of last night while helping his nine-months-pregnant friend move, has been rescued by the cops! And today, I’m excited…
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Humpty Dumpty Was Pushed
Mark Blatte’s hip-hop-crime novel brings a touch of philosophy to New York’s mean streets
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Adam Serwer’s “Hip-Hop from Pop Charts to Politics”
Adam Serwer peels back the layers of how hip-hop has helped to repropagate traditionally American ideals, even while struggling against the stereotype of being a race-related, superficial youth genre.