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THE SMITHSONIAN ANTHOLOGY AND 45-YEARS CHRONICLES OF HIP-HOP(129 TRACKS ILLUSTRATED AND OTHER FEATURES).

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THE SMITHSONIAN ANTHOLOGY AND 45-YEARS CHRONICLES OF HIP-HOP(129 TRACKS ILLUSTRATED AND OTHER FEATURES). In 1977, DJ Afrika Bambaataa began hosting his own hip-hop events in the borough. Today, having such festivities might seem insignificant, like a fun way to relieve tension after a day at work or a way to meet new people. But at the time when Bambaataa began throwing these fetes, he felt that they served a larger cause and that hip-hop played a fundamental role in New York’s Black community. Chuck D’s essay on Bambaataa—as well as Bambaataa’s influential 1982 track “Planet Rock”— is just one of many that appears in the anthology, which will be released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) today. The project is part of the African American Legacy Recordings, a collaboration which seeks to explore musical and oral traditions in the Black community across the United States. The anthology includes 129 tr
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SUMMER OF SOUL: Woodstock Revived

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SUMMER OF SOUL: Woodstock Revived Allstarsentertainmentonline 18 July, 2021. Summer of soul became an award winning documentary based on a true life story of the Harlem cultural festival which took place in the summer of 1969, had over 300,000 people at the event and this macked as a new era of cultural movement in the black community of United States of America. The film was directed by Ahmir Thompson best known as Questlove of Roots band. The event was organized by Tony Lawrence and Hal Tulchin at the New York's Mount Morris Park which showcased popular artist such as; Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, Ray Barretto, Sly and Family Stone, Hugh Masekela etc. One interesting fact about the event was that it took place over six Sundays on a roll begging from June to August 1969 and it has forty hours of recording on tape.  "Summer of Soul, which won the 2021 Sundance Documentary Grand Jury Prize, is a lot more than a concert film though. It uses the event to examine the ex
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NEW HORIZON FOR ANOTHER LIFE: FIRST HOTEL IN MARS

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NEW HORIZON FOR ANOTHER LIFE: FIRST HOTEL IN MARS The first hotel far away from planet Earth is being built by Elon Musk in Mars, it is about to be opened soon and it will cost $5Million per night. According to euronews; "An American tech company hope to deliver a cruise-like space experience well before the end of this decade" . It was stated that the Gateway Foundation’s ‘Voyager’ station is working on how to make rooms for up to 400 people on Mars. Another innovative idea is to provide a cruise ship-like hotel with the capacity to move around the planet in just 90 minutes. While onboard there are facilities for eating, relaxing, working, health spa, cinemas, and bars. It's indeed a great discovery, innovation and beyond hard work to venture into Mars. Starting a new life by an individual on another planet is unbelievable and beyond imagination. With all this developments, it shows that we humans don't even know what tommorow may hold. In no time had Ric
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BET AWARDS 2022! THE FUTURE FOR AFRICANS.

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BET AWARDS 2022! THE FUTURE FOR AFRICANS Africa made history at the recent Black Entertainment Television(BET) Awards. It was a celebration of African Cultural heritage, passion style of music. It became a moment for African artists to showcase their in-depth tanents to the World. It's no news how nigerian artists have been making waves and recognition across the globe. Artists have been winning different Awards including the BET Awards year after year. What this means is that the future is bright for Nigerian artist and there is the possibility that Nigerians may dominate the international music industries in the nearer future. Couple of artist have been nominated for various categories over the years. This year's award marked as a different and significant time because notable big shorts went home with different categories of the BET AWARDS. It is indeed a great joy and a good thing to promote black culture as Wizkid and Tems became the first Nigeria and Africans
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HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS OF 2022

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HIGHEST GROSSING FILMS OF 2022 It's been some months in the year that the movie industry have experienced tremendous sales in box office since the outbreak of Covid 19 pandemic and the eventual lockdown. Big screen lovers can't be more excited at the return of theaters in order to enjoy high budget film productions. Within a short period over the months in 2022, some movies have earned millions at the box office and as usual basically for the big production companies, directors, actors, cinemas etc. Below is the list of some of the top movies so far that have made it across to the enthusiastic film lovers globally; TOP GUN: Maverick Worldwide gross: USD 1,006,936,963 DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS Worldwide gross: USD 950,080,503 THE BATMAN Worldwide gross: USD 770,345,583 JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION Worldwide gross: USD 748,822,330 WATER GATE BRIDGE Worldwide gross: USD 626,571,280 UNCHARTED
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DJ KOOL HERC

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DJ COOL HERC Clive Campbell (born April 16, 1955), better known by his stage name DJ Kool Herc, is a Jamaican–American DJ who is credited with helping originate hip hop music in the early–1970s in The Bronx, New York City. Known as the "Founder of Hip-Hop" and "Father of Hip-Hop", Campbell began playing hard funk records of the sort typified by James Brown as an alternative both to the violent gang culture of the Bronx and to the nascent popularity of disco in the 1970s. Campbell began to isolate the instrumental portion of the record, which emphasized the drum beat—the "break"—and switch from one break to another. Using the same two turntable set-up of disco DJs, Campbell used two copies of the same record to elongate the break. This breakbeat DJing, using funky drum solos, formed the basis of hip hop music. Campbell's announcements and exhortations to dancers helped lead to the syncopated, rhymed spoken accompaniment now known
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FACTS ABOUT HIP-HOP

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FACTS ABOUT HIP-HOP Do you know that HIP HOP is simply a way of life and dipicts a cultural phenomenon in  genearal and not just a notion associated with a particular gener of music? It's related to a fundamental notions of identity and purpose. Hip Hop can easily influence young ones decisions and direction towards their choices on how they will spend some part of their lives. HIP HOP is a way of life based on the aspects people live on or who they become in a larger society. Ronald Savage, known by the nickname Bee-Stinger, who was a former member of the Zulu Nation, carved the term "Six elements of the Hip Hop Movement". The "Six Elements of the Hip Hop Movement" are: Consciousness Awareness, Civil Rights Awareness, Activism Awareness, Justice, Political Awareness, and Community Awareness in music. Ronald Savage is known as the Son of The Hip Hop Movement. Hip is The Culture and Hop is The Movement. Hip is to know, it's a form of intelligence.
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