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Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes Film by Byron Hurt

Oct 23, 2010 | Battered Women's Support Services

Byron Hurt’s brilliant film, that makes a long conversation short, connecting the dots on commerce, race, masculinity and violence against women www.bhurt.com

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  1. Joanne Hoo
    Joanne Hoo on November 14, 2010 at 2:36 am

    Thank you so much to the sensitive, responsible and truthful men and women who cared and felt strongly enough to describe, expose and raise general awareness of the debilitating effects of corporately driven institutionalized racism, classism and sexism on people of colour through the deliberate suberversion of Hip Hop culture. And thank you BWSS for making this film available here. As a dedicated documentary hound, I cannot imagine a better way to spend a Saturday evening than this!!
    I really learned a lot about homoerotocism and homophobia from this film. And, as a Jamaican woman, I can only say that although ‘Busta Rhymes’ did honestly demonstrate a prevalent homophobic attitude held by many Jamaican men; he does not speak for my entire culture.
    I too have loved Hip Hop music as I felt that it represented a powerful, authentic expression of a marginalized culture in oppostion to domination. To see so clearly how this power has been turned against itself saddens me. Perhaps, while opposition may be a necessary force for change; violence does, ultimately, beget only violence. Still, this film keeps the hope alive that some Hip Hop artists have not ‘sold out’.
    Joanne Hoo
    p.s. To the women (and men) of Spellman: YES!!