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RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose: This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly... [more]
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank's Purpose:
This Educational Program and Research Project is Dedicated to Further Building the Hip Hop--Black Liberation Movement Connection by Integrating Conscious Digital Edutainment with A Scholarly Self Directed Learning Environment.
N.B. June 3, 2007: From this point forward all post in the article /group blog section without thumbnails will be delete by the editor/RBG Street Scholar. This is because such posts compromise the formating of the zine. Furthermore, we refuse to get side tracked with eurocentric rap/pop culture. So, if posts don't jell with the RBG Movement / Rap Genre and the academic nature of the zine,again, they will be deleted. This is not a democracy, but an educational research project; and as such we intend to stay on point regarding our edutainment mission, goals and objectives. Please don't allow the title to make you get it twisted, the full title is RBG Hip Hop/Conscious Rap Music Wikizine.
Anyone who has a problem with this please start your own zine, it's free.
Asante(Thank You) for your contributions.
This Zine is a Hip Hop / Rap Music guide with photos,audio, videos, links, feeds, news, comments, group blog and forum. Special focus on Hip Hop History, Underground /Indie and the Positive and Socio-politically Conscious Rap Genre / Artists, RBG Style; along with links and extensions to each of the integral aspects of hip hop culture. Including Knowledge, DJing, MCing, Break Dancing and Graffiti.
Please take some time to browse.Your contributions are welcome and encouraged if you're looking for a scholarly, and at the same time entertaining, place to expose your work and help build a comprehensive multi-media resource for others to learn from. It's what we make it--a project in evolution and always under construction.The more of us that have something to share on the subject contribute, the better this resource will be for those wanting to do research.
"Of All The Disciplines Of Study, History Is Best Qualified To Reward All Research". Thus, let's commence the discourse with a brief historical overview.
The Political Origins of Hip-hop:
> Historically poetry/ rap/ spoken word, literature and music have been combine to play a pivotal role in black progress and power, rebellion, revolt and revolution.
Political Rap Started With the Afrikan Talking Drum.
> Because of the perceived potential of talking drums to "speak" in a tongue unknown to slave masters / traders and thus to incite rebellion, in 1838 these and other drums were banned from use by Africans in the United States.
> H “Rap” Brown, known to many of the 1960's/70's Civil Rights and Black Power Movements as the original master rapper. Rap, a given nickname, comes from his being such an eloquent speaker he would be rappin. For more see Dr. Errol Henderson on Black Nationalism and Rap Music and our Hip Hop Audio History.




UHURU SASA Means FREEDOM NOW, Feat. Askari X...Essay by Ayize Atiba and more
http://www.myspace.com/Ansar Askari_X "We Are African People Wherever We Were Born No matter where we were born in the world. African (black) People are historically and culturally linked. Our history, identity, and culture are rooted in the many thousands of years of development of African civilization on the African continent. This is a consequence of the ever forward movement and motion of the African masses. It is from this historical march of our people (African [black] People) that we... Read Full Story

THE HISTORY OF RAP: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full- A OLD SCHOOL MIX N.B -This Zine is very thorough on the Hip Hop Generation Contributions http://www.amiribaraka.com/ Amiri Baraka , born in 1934, in Newark, New Jersey, USA, is the author of over 40 books of essays, poems, drama, and music history and criticism, a poet icon and revolutionary political activist who has recited poetry and lectured on cultural and political issues extensively... Link to read... Read Full Story


Website: http://www.reverbnation.com/knowanoahBrotha Praylu is RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Video Education Master Teacher and Productionist. We started out together about five years ago teaching on You Tube. There were only about seven of us on You Tube at that time doing Re-education of Afrikan people work. The others were- ParadigmS... ., Akeem, Dadieshak, Antihostile, Rootsymali and SynQ. Praylu's main EduTainment concentrations have been in the area of video production--with special focus on the Black Panther Party, Tupac and Issues Concerning the Motherland. His latest works, ReEducation Vol 1 and... Read Full Story
http://www.zimbio.com/Rap+Music/articles/169/
Sista+Souljah+Author+Lecturer+Activist
RBG The Great Harlem Debate 4 Promo:
Is Hip Hop Good for Black Folks?”
I (RBG Street Scholar/ Brotha Imhotep) will be one of the debaters to argue in firm support of hip hop culture as a prime tool for our unification, revolutionary change and a positive force in our liberation struggle, Re-Afrikanization Cultural Movement and nation building process.
MY PREMISE:
"If you do not understand 'white' supremacy (as racism)--what it is, and how it works--everything else that you understand, will only confuse you". Dr.Nelly Fuller Jr.
The 9 Areas of People Activity in which white supremacy functions (1)Economics, (2)Education, (3)Entertainment, (4)Labor, (5)Law, (6)Politics, (7)Religion, (8)Sex and (9)War
The Actual Debate Presentation
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- A blog post by RBG Street Scholar's Classroom was featured (rbgnation.ning.com)
- 8 photos by RBG Street Scholar's Classroom were featured (rbgnation.ning.com)
- 8 photos by RBG Street Scholar's Classroom were featured (rbgnation.ning.com)
- jhan stone is now a member of RBG Worldwide 1 Nation (rbgnation.ning.com)
- Lyonezz left a comment for leeksqd (rbgnation.ning.com)
- Lyonezz left a comment for NattyReb (rbgnation.ning.com)
- NattyReb left a comment for Lyonezz (rbgnation.ning.com)
- UNO The Prophet added a discussion (rbgnation.ning.com)
- UNO The Prophet added a blog post (bangout.ning.com)
- NattyReb replied to NattyReb's discussion 'SUNDIATA ACOLI PAROLE INFORMATION... (rbgnation.ning.com)
- Ivory.B added 6 photos to the album 'Black Queen' (rbgnation.ning.com)
- 2 discussions started by NattyReb were featured (rbgnation.ning.com)
- Nicholas Kopernicus: "Natural High" (weblog.liberatormagazine.com)
- A video by vivafidel was featured (bangout.ning.com)
- RBGStreetScholar commented on vivafidel's video '"WE ARE THE ONES" (The... (bangout.ning.com)
- Nicolay; Twista; Nneka; Kanye/Wayne/Eminem/Drake; Maxwell; Wale/Rihanna; John... (weblog.liberatormagazine.com)
THE RECORD THAT GALVINIZED
The 1960s
Black Power and Liberation Movement
RBG Worldwide 1 NationThe Blue Print For Black Power Study Cell
Hip-hop has entertained its fair shar e of misfits, but few groups ever embraced the title as fervently as Houston's Geto Boys. The trio, consi sting of Willie D and rappers Scarface and Bushwick Bill, rose to prominence in the 1990s with an excoriating combination of violent, explicit lyrics and propulsive, minimal beats. The band's third album, 1991's We Can't Be Stopped, boasts the single image that best defines the band's career. On the cover, Bushwick is being rolled into a hospital on a gurney by his fellow bandmates, his face grotesquely swollen and a bandage on his jaw. Bushwick had wound up in the hospital after shooting himself in the eye, following a dispute with his then-girlfriend. Why the dwarfish rapper thought that putting a bullet in his own dome would solve the matter has never been revealed, but it makes for an unforgettable image. The cover perfectly illustrates the never-say-die spirit of the best hip-hop, with a defiant middle finger raised to polite society in the face of impossible odds.
by RBGStreet Scholar
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AFTER THE INTRO VIDEO WITH DR. CONE
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Disclaimer from RBG Street Scholars Think Tank Founding Chair and Author
Marc Imhotep Cray, M.D. (rbgstreetscholar)
RBG Street Scholars Think Tank and it affiliated websites are NOT intended to encourage anyone to do anything illegal.Therbgsstt.blogspot.com website and the domain name rbgsstt.blogspot.com provide all information for education and research purposes only. The information, views and opinions contained within the information on rbgsstt.blogspot.com website and the domain name rbgsstt.blogspot.com are not those of the owner or the site host, neither are they necessarily those of the maintainers or the contributors. R B G Street Scholars Think Tank does not advocate violence. We advocate self-defense. Whether or not you interperate self-defense as a violent act is your own individual opinion. R B G Street Scholars Think Tank condemns domestic and international terrorism. Whether it is Bin Laden or the USA, RBG Street Scholars Think Tank is oppose to all forms of political oppression, economic exploitation, and social degradation of Afrikans in America and abroad. We oppose the killing of innocent people under the system of white supremacy and we intend to replace white supremacy with justice through proper education.
































































































































