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It’s crazy when you really take time to consider how culture moves. Hip-hop’s global migration is a great example. Peep how the movie Flashdance, which reached japan in the summer of 1983, is credited with bringing hip-hop culture to the country. Despite not being about hip-hop, the few instances where the movie features kids breaking on the streets was enough to penetrate Japan’s consciousness and prime the country for an explosion of music, , fashion and language created by poor kids half a world away. I love it.
The photography for this post is the cover artwork of hip-hop legend, J Dilla’s most current release. Dilla passed two years ago yesterday. God Bless…
From wikipedia.org
J Dilla began this album before his untimely death. The album was intended as an instrumental EP featuring 2 guest vocal tracks. The album has an accompanying video series for the track “Can’t You See”. Most recent photographs used of J Dilla, such as the inside cover of J Dilla’s BBE album The Shining, as well as recent MTV pictures, were Operation Unknown photo sessions for the album Jay Love Japan.
JLJ Intro • Yesterday • Say It - featuring Ta’Raach & Exile • Oh Oh • First Time - featuring Baatin & The Ruckazoid • In The Streets • Believe In God • Can’t You See • Say It (Instrumental)
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"a mom"
But a lot is defined by American Culture. Why is that? I was around when Flashdance was out. I don’t think it was so great. For me it was just another dance movie with a slight story line. It wouldn’t be considered hip-hop. But hip-hop is such a vast culture and I guess that’s a good thing. Really!
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Keene
I love Hip Hop with all my heart. I was born in the early 80’s and was too young to understand what it was about. After it had evolved big and up out of NY and into other regions in the 90’s and had started to become watered down, I was subconscious of it’s essence and value. I never knew of it’s becoming. Not knowing how it began in the basements and parks of the Bronx, taking an old song to create a new. As I got older and more aware and saw past the bling, I began to understand that the culture came from kids who had to make something of nothing. Who knew that just turning your baseball cap from front to back was going to be a fasion statement. Shit, I don’t even want to get into how the shoe game changed shit up. But after understanding this, I began to understand how people in different regions had took the concepts and applied them to where they were from. Hip Hop is world wide! And I don’t think it was all meant to be the same everywhere. It’s a beautiful thing seeing how one culture influenced thousands of others
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Alwayswrite
That’s the movement of GOOD culture. It’s addictive. And we all know Hip-Hop is addictive, was addictive, still is addictive–although for the wrong reasons sometimes.
In any event, any novel culture with a new perspective infiltrates the stale and previous culture. It’s sociological evolution. Get on the hype.
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