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From WTC to Super Tuesday · by Rafi Kam
Fresh at 33 Jones delivers a powerful message on the lack of respect evident in framing the faux-apocalyptic event of Kanye vs Curtis on 9/11.
Excerpt from Hip-Hop’s 9/11?:
When Snoop, Daz and Kurupt knocked over replicas of New York skyscrapers in their video for New York, it generated several responses from NY rappers, further escalating the increasingly violent East Coast/West Coast “beef” of the time. Some people got so emotional about it that they drove down to the video shoot in Times Square and let off a few rounds just to let Snoop know how disrespected they felt by the song.
But when New York was quite literally attacked and two of the city’s greatest buildings got knocked down in real life? The reaction from the hip hop community – a community born and raised in New York, let’s not forget – was almost nonexistent.
More on Hip-Hop’s 9/11? at 33Jones.
Comments for "From WTC to Super Tuesday"
I agree wholeheartedly -Hip hop alone should be responsive and empathetic to atrocities and injustices the very moment they become salient and sobering to white americans.
— R.H.S. Sep 11, 08:30 AM
Right, because a) 9/11 only affected white people and b) hip hop isn’t already catering to white america.
— fresh Sep 11, 05:11 PM
No, I meant the mere concept that atrocity and injustice exists in the cold, cold world, which prior to 9/11 was mostly inconceivable to the white american imagination.
In any event, Mobb Deep better not try to release an album on December 7th, yo!
— R.H.S. Sep 11, 11:27 PM
I actually did consider Pearl Harbor as a point of comparison. Unfortunately the SoundScan figures for December 7th, 1947 were incomplete.
— fresh Sep 12, 10:40 AM
Fresh is the word!
— DJ Flash Sep 13, 10:52 PM
A pointless post with pointless comments. Racism lives…
in comments.
At least your site used to be dope.
— cdub Sep 16, 01:04 AM