The Hip Hop culture can be broken down into various elements... These elements, like Voltron, somehow when combined properly form up a complex yet eloquent entity called the Periodic Table of Hip Hop Elements. This is that blog. All topics will be limited to anything and everything that is relevant to the Hip Hop culture.
Related to Elements: DJ, MC, Producer, Street Knowledge
Test your street knowledge...
Name these Hip Hop artists.
Images taken from old copies of magazines: 1. Impose Magazine, 2,9,10, from Remix Magazine, 3 from Scratch Magazine, and the remaining from Urb Magazine.
...Since day one literally.Madison's long history of protest continues, as Saturday's protests rose to a record breaking population of around 85,000 despite the passing of Walker's anti-union bill earlier in the week. Demonstrators made it clear that the fight is not over.
The circle is now complete! It's been a while since the last blog post was dropped here, but I got a good excuse... I've been busy setting up a brand new Hip Hop forum, which will complete the trilogy of http://www.officialperiodic.com, http://officialperiodic.blogspot.com and now finally http://forum.officialperiodic.com. The goal of the forum is simple, we want good people to discuss and build their knowledge of Hip Hop. This will make it much easier for present and future contributors of the Periodic Table of Hip Hop Elements to provide their unique input to the project. We have high expectations that this step will help Official Periodic become a more valuable resource to Hip Hop heads worldwide. Please join usand bring your knowledge to the table!
Just making the most of my time while stopped for a train bumping tunes.
Seriously, why isn't this song anywhere?
UPDATE: My droid video recording of the track was not doing this dope song justice, so I put the original audio source on this new youtube version of the video. It's just a short snippet of the song, but you'll get the drift.
Related to Elements: Money, Beef, Conscious Hip Hop, Hip Hop Journalist
To reiterate what's stated above, this is a Hip Hop Blog; all things Hip Hop. That being said, don't mistake this post as a political post. This is no stretch; the protests in Madison is another facet of Hip Hop in action. If you think fighting the establishment for justice and equal rights is not Hip Hop, you've never really listened to the words of Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, 2 Pac, The Coup, Immortal Technique, X-Clan, Paris, Poor Righteous Teachers, and countless others.
I'm not going to get into the politics of left vs. right, but it all boils down to hard working blue and white collar Americans, including our teachers, transit workers, social workers, and all kinds of other civil servants, standing in the cold, fighting for the well being of their families and neighbors. They understand that what happens in Madison, after all is said and done, will happen in other states, so the fight is well beyond personal, and it has far reaching implications.
The people that are out there on the street (like the photographer of these images and activist Mike Schrader) documenting and photographing this movement are genuine Hip Hop journalists. The participants present at this week long movement (whether they like Hip Hop music or not) are participating in one of the most fundamentally positive aspects of rap; shedding light on injustice, provoking thought, prodding for change through freedom of speech and non-violent demonstrations.
(Damn the Empire!)
These Americans are actively practicing the freedom given to them by our country's forefathers. Unlike the apathetic or compliant citizens that are also either directly or indirectly affected by Governor Walker's proposed Union killer plan, these activists are anything BUT lazy. On the contrary, while they may not be at work right now, they are working harder than anyone sitting at their desk quietly mumbling under their breath about the impact this will have on the future of our nation.
Show your respect! Even if you disagree with this movement, you should support our hardest working Americans and stand up for their rights to be heard.
(Police and Firefighters are exempt from the cuts... For now.)
(short clip) Youtube Video of the honorable Rev. Jesse Jackson
"Don't put the burden of the economic collapse on our teachers' backs!" - Jesse Jackson
