@handz2k@theantimarkofpw@infamousbxdon To actually be technical it was the drum(breaks) that were dug way before using words that were the highlight. Its why dj’s would cover the label so others wouldnt bite. The breakbeat was the highlight.
@handz2k@theantimarkofpw@infamousbxdon Hip Hop started with music. The draw was the music. The DJ was the draw and The MC’s original purpose was to hype up the DJ. Cmon u should know that at least.
This is the reason I convinced Amiri Baraka to remove the “expressionism” from “Afrosurreal Expressionism” & allow me to create a genre simply called “Afrosurrealism” & then made distinctions with it and Surrealism in the manifesto. Two steps ahead of the colonizers on that one.
U.S. empire is not simply “losing to China.” Capital globalized production, hollowed out its own industrial base and helped create the forces now undermining its supremacy. The contradiction is accelerating: American capital accumulated itself into imperial decline.