The Hip-Hop Pool of Genius
Saturday
May 2013
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Written by Rap Reservoir, Posted in Media
Kanye West’s worldwide marketing plan worked amazingly last night, playing his video ‘New Slaves’ as projections on buildings from LA to Paris.
Why is Kanye West so good at being the exact kind of person he condemns in his music? Affluence and corporate partnerships, according to Ye’, are the new slavery.
And yet, who’s a bigger slave master than he?
Tuesday
May 2013
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Written by Rap Reservoir, Posted in News
Famous DJ Mr. Cee was again busted with a prostitute over the weekend, prompting a remix cultural firestorm over his sexuality. Mr. Cee, in an interview with Hot97, denied that he was gay but acknowledged an addiction of sorts to prostitutes.
But then he dropped this line on the listeners.
“Let’s say if I’m lying, that’s my choice,” Cee proposed, after a Hot 97 DJ began to play Aly-Us’ “Follow Me,” a ’90s dance record often associated with the gay club community. “If I’m lying and I chose not to come out, that’s my choice.”
Thursday
April 2013
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Written by Rap Reservoir, Posted in Business
Jay-Z’s RocNation Sports Management today announced the signing of Skylar Diggins, a rookie guard for the Tulsa Shock and marketing gold mine in waiting.
Diggins’ beauty plus her skills are going to make her a transformative athletic marketing figure, and the league a more pop culture-friendly product when you throw in other sexy hoopsters Maya Moore and Elena Delle-Donne.
Jay-Z’s brand recognition brings an relatively novice audience to the sport, young people and hip-hop fans who want to see how Jay’s client fares in the pros. It’s the Roc, you bastards.
Tuesday
April 2013
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Monday
April 2013
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Written by Rap Reservoir, Posted in Art
The New York Times recently profiled Cornell University’s Hip-Hop collection, a cultural array of hip-hop artifacts chronicling the rise and times of the music, art and lifetstyle
The university, starting in 2007, has acquired about 80,000 artifacts including fliers designed by Buddy Esquire and Phase 2; photographs by Joe Conzo, Jr.; drawings by the graffiti writer Richie “SEEN” Mirando; and footage from Charlie Ahearn, the director of the hip-hop movie “Wild Style.” Curriculum has also grown around the collection, with the D.J. Afrika Bambaataa appointed as a visiting scholar.
Saturday
April 2013
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