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Women’s Stories Sought for Music Vid

13, Mar 2010

The music video for hip-hop artist Bambu’s anti-patriarchy song “The Queen Is Dead” is in production and Bambu is seeking audience participation. The video is expected to be a compilation of women telling viewers what it means to be truly respected by men. Producers ask is that participants get in front of a video camera [...]

Bambu’s “Paper Cuts” EP is Out

24, Feb 2010

Bambu’s song about patriarchy, “The Queen is Dead,” was posted free online awhile back. Yesterday, his new EP was released. Self-described as “a dad, a comrade, an organizer, an artist, a worker, a fan, a soldier, a thinker, a do-er and a fighter until death,” Bambu has been releasing political hip-hop music independently for several [...]

KTSU Drops Latin Jazz: Act Now

16, Feb 2010

Last week, KTSU management ended the local radio program Jazz Latino. Community listeners claim the Latin jazz program, which ran for 12 years on KTSU, was canceled not because of performance or the contribution to the community, but because individuals close to the station, including Texas Southern University administrators, expressed a dislike for Latin jazz. [...]

Dirty States of America Documentary

24, Jan 2010

Dirty States of America: The Untold Story of Southern Hip-Hop is a documentary on Southern rap music and culture, as well as the struggle and poverty that influenced its evolution. If you missed or need to get reacquainted with this 2003 documentary, many cable networks are airing it anew. It covers diverse genres in hip-hop [...]

“We the People” Documentary

19, Jan 2010

From a documentary featuring artists and community organizers in the United States sharing their opinions on the state of the country. Here, they speak on the question of what America fears most. The film will accompany Steele of Smif-N-Wessun’s CD, Amerikkka’s Nightmare Part 2: Children of War, which comes out Feb. 23.


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