Dickslingers, Do-Gooders, and Good Misogyny in Hip
Hop:
The Real Pac Dime's Perkin Experience, Mak Diddy on
The Mic, Bleed Lovely: Good Misogyny, Rachel Swan spars with UC Santa Cruz professor Tricia Rose, Conscious Daughters and
Goldee the Murderess
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VERBAL ASSAULT: FINDING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN
PUNK AND HIP HOP
Filmmaker James Spooner, Suicide King James
Kennedy, Zulu Nation founder Africa Bambaata, journalist Aaron Shuman, and Rock Steady Crew member Pop Master Fabel explore
the relationship between punk and hardcore hip hop, as genre, as social movements, and as entries into larger discussions
about race --and, in Spooner's words, "the illusion and failure of integration." Both celebrate sexual deviance, criminality,
and certain kinds of marginality, and both are driven by the creative expression of rage. So what's keeping them apart?
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SK8 POLITICS
"Business
improvement" honchos refurbish San Francisco's Union Square with pig ears, handrails, and stone panels to keep skaters out.
PLUS
Pro-Skater
Jessie Van Roechoudt grinds those Sk8-er boyz to powder
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FREE AGENT: Oakland rapper Azeem talks about
courting the muse
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