We review Kendrick Lamar and Kahlil Joseph's short film "good kid, m.A.A.d. city"

Topics discussed:

🎭 The most abstract and experimental film we've ever watched

🎬 The secret John Singleton connection

👩🏾 Real people within Compton: who really has main character energy

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"Never Catch Me" by Flying Lotus feat. Kendrick Lamar

Pass The Popcorn: Exclusive Preview Of Kendrick Lamar x Kahlil Joseph's Short Film 'm.A.A.d' (Okayplayer)

The Visual Album: Kendrick Lamar's good kid, m.A.A.d. city (The Penn Moviegoer)

Audiovisual Black Subjectivity in Kahlil Joseph’s “Double Conscience” (Jheanelle Brown)

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What do you think? Should hip hop be any part of stepping?

Topics discussed:

🥾 The age-old debate: hip hop vs. stepping or hip hop + stepping

📺 BooGie's Leonardo DiCaprio meme moment watching step on TV

🎤 The hip hop soundtrack of Stomp the Yard

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On June 10th, we will be screening DO THE RIGHT THING in 4K at the Frank Banko Alehouse Cinemas at SteelStacks in Bethlehem PA. Get your free tickets, thanks to ArtsQuest: Buy tickets

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Quizmaster JB puts BooGie and DynoWright to the test with 20 questions about this Spike Lee classic.

Play along with our Do the Right Thing trivia episode! How many questions did you get right? Tell us at [email protected]

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The audience for our Louder than a Bomb screening at ArtsQuest got a special treat: a live spoken word performance by Tribes & Vibes' own Baby the Poet. Listen for two terrific poems and a quick interview with DynoWright and BooGie of the Hip Hop Movie Club.

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Tribes & Vibes: Instagram | Facebook

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Four Chicago-area high school poetry teams battle to qualify and show out at the world's largest slam poetry competition, Louder Than A Bomb.

Topics discussed:

📝 A story of youth striving

🎤 "The most hip hop thing you could do"

🎙️ Not giving up on problem children

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Film website

The competition, now called Rooted and Radical Youth Festival

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Here's a little story about Silibil N' Brains, two Scottish rappers that faked it but still didn't make it.

Topics discussed:

🎤 Silibil and Brains: Arbroath's most wanted

🤪 The dumbest idea ever

🤥 Lies and more lies

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"Sirens" by Dizzee Rascal

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We set the wayback machine to August 6, 1988 to review and react to the pilot episode of Yo! MTV Raps. This show was a huge part of our upbringing in hip hop!

Topics discussed:

🎤 The first video ever on Yo!

👑 A glimpse of a star ready to break out

⏰ Public Enemy shouts out rappers to check out

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The first episode of Yo! MTV Raps (shout out to The Groove Theory on FB)

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Special episode: Lehigh Valley rapper and nonprofit founder Maverick Makaveli sounds off on Set It Off, plus a live performance of her track "R.B.G.", all before our 30th anniversary screening of the 1996 heist classic at ArtsQuest.

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Maverick Makaveli on SoundCloud and Instagram

Umoja Is Unity

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Our next live event is LOUDER THAN A BOMB with a special performance by Baby the Poet of Tribes and Vibes! Join us on April 22 at SteelStacks in Bethlehem PA. Free tickets!

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Here's a throwback AND remix of our previous episode on Set It Off, ahead of our 30th anniversary screening at SteelStacks in Bethlehem PA. Get free tix!

Topics discussed:

👑 Queen Latifah rules

👩🏾 The Sisterhood of Cleo, Stoney, Frankie, and Tisean

🏳️‍🌈 Early LGBT representation in film

🎤 Hip Hop's importance in this film

😵 Systemic oppression then and now

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Take a ride with us on Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly, the documentary-style film on Netflix that led up to the release of his critically acclaimed Astroworld album.

Topics discussed:

😍 We break down his relationship with his fans,

🤕 the dark underside of this relationship that foreshadows tragedy to come,

😵 DynoWright takes this film to task for being a 90 minute commercial

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