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Share your resources, playlists, articles, thoughts and insights from Hip-Hop 1988 which many say was the center of Hip-Hop's golden age so what say you #HipHopEd
Hip hop was in a story telling state, it was positive it was peeping the real from the fake. It was full of classics. I was 12 it was then that I fell in love making mixtapes hip hop! House parties were LIT! #HipHopEd
I was a 17-year-old white girl in very segregated Mississippi; I had a little exposure to hip-hop music that didn't make it to Top 40. No way to make up for that lost time, but trying to fill in some gaps. #HipHopEd
Welcome 2 #HipHopEd tonight we begin our Hip-Hop on the 8's series with all things Hip-Hop in the year 1988. Where was Hip-Hop and where were you 30 years ago?
We didn’t know the full impact that 1988 would have but looking back, 1998 gave us “It Takes A Nation if Millions” by @PublicEnemyFTP and “Straight Outta Compton” by NWA! Rebellion in differing narratives #HipHopEd
I was 7 years old. 1988 was the year Selena Quintanilla left Los Dinos and became a solo artist. It may not be relevant to HH, but it is relevant to the internationalization and crossing over of music. #HipHopEdhttps://t.co/OcodcPaqGT
Tonight, I will happily soak up the knowledge and memories from this chat primarily as an observer. I was just hot off the presses in late 1988 so I look forward to hearing from everyone else in our great #HipHopEd family!
Children’s Story and Boyz-N-the-hood were two of my favorites! One for the fun and anticipation of what would happen next and the other for the hard core gangster rap. #HipHopEd
In 1988 dreams of life changing financial success was becoming a reality for more artists. It was turning point where commercially the music began to expand #hiphoped
The hip-hop community has been active in social justice since its inception. This year, we are excited to present the NAACP Hip Hop Social Justice Summit as part of our annual convention in San Antonio, TX. #NAACPConvention
In 1988: i was 3 years old and adjusting to life in the US as a refugee. I didn't even know hip hop existed but i was already in love with Michael Jackson. #hiphoped
Never create a division between the old & new school. It separates elders from the youth. Draw connections instead. 1988 to 2018. Still Hip-hop #HipHopEd
@bigdaddykane "Ain't No Half Steppin" was one of the greatest self-esteem building songs for me as I was becoming an adult in 1988. This was one of the first songs I practiced so I could recite the lines like Kane #HipHopEd
Dope music that made you think. Actually, made you do research to find out what some brothers were talking about. Definitely developed more consciousness during that period. #HipHopEd
Even tho it was created in 87 we gotta show love to the first rap song to win a Grammy "Parents just don't understand" by @djjazzyjeff215 and the Fresh Prince. #HipHopEd
My knowledge of hip hop in 88 is from a perspective of distance and reverence. I was 6 in 88, but I know dont believe the hype and strictly business by heart#HipHopEd
1988 was the year before the Regan era ended. Regan left his mark. Our kids today are still feeling the effects of his War on Drugs. #MassIncarceration#HipHopEd
1978 We were digging some killing crossover from R&B into #hiphoped. Parliament, Chic, and the Commodores we’re pushing us out of Disco and Rock towards something more expressive. Partying with the music, not because of the music.
1978 We were digging some killing crossover from R&B into #hiphoped. Parliament, Chic, and the Commodores we’re pushing us out of Disco and Rock towards something more expressive. Partying with the music, not because of the music.
Were Selena & Los Dinos the first to use a hip hop beat in a Texano music album? "Always Mine" in the "Dulce amor" album: https://t.co/uNUnCQRGdS#HipHopEd 1988
This is critical when teaching our youth. If ss initially aren’t interested in older artists, drawing parallels to current mainstream artists always piques their interest to learn more, and making connections positively challenges our critical thinking abilities as ts! #HipHopEd
I do this through identifying a loved song sampled in current music, which creates a jumping off point with students. They love the 'wisdom' of the original song. #HipHopEd
2018 is continuing the recent revival of music videos = VOICE. It took a backseat for a while, but I think artists are adapting to our sensationalist/imagery-driven world. From The Carters to Childish Gambino, we’re seeing a new wave of powerful visual literacy! #HipHopEd
Now that I think about it, that entire PE album is a case study in group dynamics, community/nation building, and the power of knowledge of self realized #HipHopEd
In 1988, I was 7. It wasn't until 2 years later that I had my breakthrough hip hop moment when my general music teacher Mrs. Leake let me bring my @MCHammer tape in to class. Dancing to U Can't Touch This that day is one of the only things I remember about ES. #HipHopEd
#HipHopEd was still a tot, but I remember my dad dropping off at school. He was a DJ and collected records/music so we'd listen to all the new jams from across the U.S. be4 most ppl.
Meanwhile, Gangsta rap was finding its ground in Northern Cali and SoCal..
Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince released Parents Just Don't Understand in 1988. Will Smith recorded a vid supporting his sons rap career in 2018 #HipHopEd#Growth
My husband and I did a Rap and Religion study with some youth from our former church. It's powerful to use music to make connections for children. #HipHopEd
During my run last my playlist was 80s rap. To me the artform was compelling! It made you dance, it was about turntables, freestyling, rap battles, and discussed more political situations! I think about KRS-One (BDP) who was like the professor of rap!
Teaching Mass Incarceration and the 13th amendment? Use Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos - Ss appreciate the storytelling, visuals and aggressive production https://t.co/jueUv2s3vr#hiphoped #1988
#HipHopEd Hip Hop was also starting to sprout up elsewhere in places like Brazil (rap nacional) and the UK (altho that DEFINITELY predates the late 80s), + hitting its first peak in 92-93.
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The variety of messages and messengers that were prominent in 1988 is something that is very inspirational. The variety is there today but you may have to look for it #HipHopEd
There was crack in 1988. It decimated the hood & youth were criminalized. There is meth is 2018. It is decimating suburbia. Their youth are being supported through their health crisis #HipHopEd
Can we give a round of applause to @TooShort because in 88 he was on his 2nd album and 30 years later he's still making quality music. #bayarea#HipHopEd#hiphophigh
1988 was also the year of El General's "Tu Pum Pum". I am sorry. Hip Hop did not exist in my hood but early reggaeton did. https://t.co/14OXpZFRnR#HipHopEd
The cultural themes in the music from 88 is nearly synonymous with the themes in music in 2018. This is a great lesson on how history repeats itself
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Can we give a round of applause to @TooShort because in 88 he was on his 2nd album and 30 years later he's still making quality music. #bayarea#HipHopEd#hiphophigh
Mc Lyte had three classics I Crammed to Understand and Paper Thin were about how she felt about boys trying to be players and 10% Dis was a dis track? Not 100% Dis just 10 guess 100% wouldn’t be fair. #HipHopEd
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock released It Takes Two in 1988. Migos released Walk it Like I talk It in 2018. Same effect on the dance floors. Thoughts? #HipHopEd
Welcome 2 #HipHopEd tonight we begin our Hip-Hop on the 8's series with all things Hip-Hop in the year 1988. Where was Hip-Hop and where were you 30 years ago?
Yeah, the only two "urban" areas in the whole state, they sure did feel big! My brother and sister both went to USM :) In Pittsburgh PA now for 17 years, weather so much more my speed! #HipHopEd
Mc Lyte had three classics I Crammed to Understand and Paper Thin were about how she felt about boys trying to be players and 10% Dis was a dis track? Not 100% Dis just 10 guess 100% wouldn’t be fair. #HipHopEd
First timer and jumping in since ‘88 resonates. From central AZ and 22 that year. If it was on MTV or Kasem’s Top 40 I knew all the words and practiced the dance moves . I didn’t know genres only grooves. Listening up now cuz teaching changed me. #HipHopEd
#HipHopEd gangsta rap, for young folks growing up in the hood in Northern Cali, was a creative response to the drugs being pushed into our hoods by the govt and the gang wars manufactured by law enforcement to fill prisons
It was OUR social commentary
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First timer and jumping in since ‘88 resonates. From central AZ and 22 that year. If it was on MTV or Kasem’s Top 40 I knew all the words and practiced the dance moves . I didn’t know genres only grooves. Listening up now cuz teaching changed me. #HipHopEd
You know how you have that one random song that you memorized but it wasnt anyone else's favorite? Mine was @BizMarkie Family Tree. 5 years after 1988, but hey, close enough. "My girl Eleanor went to the drugstore to get deodorant I think it was Sure 😂 #HipHopEd
The social ills are similar between 1988 and 2018. The industry that was once informed by culture is now informing and shaping culture #StayWoke#HipHopEd
Ooh #SomeLikeItHot! Mississippi is lucky to have you there, especially as an educator, inspiring students (especially our young men of color) to follow in your footsteps. #HipHopEd
#HipHopEd you can thank many Bay Area cats for carving out a plethora of lanes and paving the foundation for independent artists today. Cats like Mac Dre & most of his crew, @E40, @TooShort, gary archer, numerous journalists and other folks put in work.
Our classes can trace the continued sociocultural fallout from Bush1 (88) to today through hip hop narrative & aesthetics.
Expressions of resistance have changed but also remained constant. Form different, function same. #hiphoped
#HipHopEd you can thank many Bay Area cats for carving out a plethora of lanes and paving the foundation for independent artists today. Cats like Mac Dre & most of his crew, @E40, @TooShort, gary archer, numerous journalists and other folks put in work.
Yes. Rap was blowing up in the U.K. in the 80’s. We didn’t produce too many of our own artists back then. Monie Love might have been the most successful.
My hip hop references do not date as far back as 1988, but the songs I have recalled (and are not quite HH) do tell a story about crossing borders geographically, linguistically and musically. #hiphoped
Public Enemy sampled James Brown and others to capture that late 60’s sound in 1988 on It Takes A Nation of Millions... This year, in 2018, Nas sampled Slick Rick’s Children’s Story (1988) on Cops Shot the Kids. The sound evolves, but the messages remain the same #HipHopEd
Agree with social ills. I think 2018 introduced me to rappers coming out the woodwork. I’m old school but I still rock to some of the new artist like J.Cole Kendrick and Drake. Love me some Lil Wayne. #HipHopEd
1988 was the year Lo-Lifes started getting recognition. They started the hip-hip fashion and changed the Polo Ralph Lauren brand forever! #HipHopEd#Polo#RalphLauren#LoLife
I was five years into #hiphoped, changing from Grandmaster Flash & Kool Moe Dee to Public Enemy, Rakim, & New Jack Swing. Was running a cooperative food network then, now it is all about cooperative investment strategies.
Throughout this series pull songs from the 8’s and make a playlist to take back to school. Use it as a timeline for events throughout the upcoming school year #HipHopEd
It's never fair to compare the present to yesterday when today sits on the shoulders of yesterday. The goal is understand and build upon instead of replicate to placate #HipHopEd
Watching my older siblings prepare to go to Club Discovery (Rumors) on St. Claude in NOLA talking about how “Let’s Get It Started” @MCHammer used get the club jumping #HipHopEd
I feel like Hammer was the Sam Cooke of hip-hop. He paved a way into pop culture (read:white dominated spaces) because he was comfortable and non-confrontational. #hiphoped
I loved being on campus and being introduced to people's hometown music which grew to become the Hip-Hop soundtrack we all rocked to because it ain't where you from it's where you at #HipHopEd
We need to quit the revisionist nonsense.
*The industry didn't even Rock w/ rap/hip hop in the early-late 80s.
*Gangsta rap was NOT emerging➡️It was BOOMING + cats WERE making $$$ from the backs of their trunks, laying down + carving out touring and distribution lanes
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For our FIRST EVER oral history, we get the inside story of Knuck If You Buck, the club anthem that defined the crunk era and took rap group Crime Mob from middle-school kids to rap legends. LISTEN NOW 🔉 https://t.co/KQicl7OFoN
Class Project: Have students remix, sample and recreate songs from 1988 that they feel speak to them today. Imagine sampling from @MrChuckD today #HipHopEd
You all are on 🔥🔥🔥🔥 tonight!!! When the older generation (including myself) say they can't get into this "new" stuff!! The journey for the youth is sooo different, but the struggle is still the same!
In many ways, the internet has re-leveled the playing field. Distribution & touring are back in the hands of artists much like it was in 1988 #HipHopEd
Next week we will be representing all things Hip-Hop 1998, before you ask we will be doing a separate 20th anniversary chat on “The MisEducation of Lauryn Hill” #HipHopEd Hip-Hop on the 8’s Part 2
Class Project: Have students remix, sample and recreate songs from 1988 that they feel speak to them today. Imagine sampling from @MrChuckD today #HipHopEd
#hiphoped I know its probably been said tonight... But damn 88 was nuts. Kane, Ra, PE, BE A, EPMD, BDP, JBs, Marley Mark (well... the Symphony), Stet, one of my all time favs... #LakimShabazz - So much more!
Class Project: Have students put together a presentation on Hip-Hop 1988 through the eyes of their parents and or other elders. Have a cross-generational discussion at school #HipHopEd
#HipHopEd My native Lowell, Massachusetts was the focus of the late 80s HBO documentary, High on Crack Street, also much of that content featured in #thefighter starring Mark Whalberg.
In 1988 Jungle Brother's "Black is Black" tells us "Martin Luther had to shout "Let's get out, get out, get out". In 2018 Jordin Peele wins Oscar for "Get Out."
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