Tag: Hip Hop
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Nas’ Ultra Black Theory
Click or not: Nas’ Ultra Black TheoryNas’ Ultra Black Theory “Ultra Black” is the most commercially successful Pan-Africanist artist’s white paper on Black power. As a hip hop capitalist, Nas is the unusual poet laureate who observes neither the saintly asceticism of Bob Marley nor the socialism of W.E.B Du Bois and George Padmore. As a lone-wolf intellectual, Nas may be… …
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Kendrick Lamar, Black Mecca and Hip-Hop Pan-Africanism
Click or not: Kendrick Lamar, Black Mecca and Hip-Hop Pan-AfricanismKendrick Lamar recently visited Ghana, promoting his new album and reportedly shooting a documentary. State officials celebrated the visit in the context of Beyond the Return, Ghana’s tourism and repatriation campaign. As Mr. Duckworth swaps his wrecked Audi for the Accra trotro, conscious hip hop’s commitment to Pan-Africanism is deep as ever. …
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The Butterfly Dialectic
Click or not: The Butterfly DialecticThe Butterfly Dialectic Karl Marx is out of a job in black America. His last prophet, Cornel West, beats a grumpy retreat from blackface capital everywhere he turns. The culture, with its emphasis on appearance and acquisition, is not so much an ideology as it is an ontology. “Money trees is the perfect place for shade”… …