Time Capsule aka Its Bigger than Hip-Hop

Life through the lenses of our culture... Its Bigger Than Hip-Hop seeks to establish Hip-Hop’s legitimate/rightful position in the canon of Black music. Taking an anthropological approach, the project aims to view social and political phenomena through a modern scope allowing children of the Hip-Hop generation to place the music in its proper historical context. In a time of digital replication, the foundation of Hip-Hop music is the sample... Yet the knowledgeable still hold fast to the original records. Its Bigger Than Hip-Hop is essentially cultural "crate-digging". Enjoy the Experience

Rarity Revisited

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This video is so damn funky... The group Stark Reality performing "Acting, Thinking, Feeling" on the Say Brother public television program from the late 1960s. This clip was released on Stones Throw's "Stones Throw 101" DVD.

Sometimes when I stumble across music like this being performed on public access television, it makes me wonder about a time in the future when record collectors will make it a point to go back and recover all of the lost hip-hop recordings that we put out. Will there be an increased value placed on home videos of Redman freestyling in his cousin's backyard? or even this?



Who knows? But its fun to dream...

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