Cornell Hip Hop Collection

A-YO, CUT THE MUSIC OFF! We have an ANNOUNCEMENT: the Ernie Paniccioli Digital Photo Archive is *NOW LIVE*!! 🤯🤯🤯 For those who don't know, Brother Ernie is one of the foremost photographers in Hip Hop's history, and his work captures our community as it grew and thrived throughout the 1980's, 1990's, 2000's, and on into the present. 📸📸📸 This digitized collection is a chunk of ~20,000 shots culled from his overall archive of 100,000+ images 🎞️🎞️🎞️. Read the press release here (contains the link to the collection): bit.ly/erniepress ... Do yourself a flavor and feast your eyes 👀👀👀 Happy researching, party people. And as always, SUUUPER SOUL SALUTE to the legendary Ernie Paniccioli Photographer
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Lyrical contribution from the Cornell University Dean of Students, Vijay Pendakur () for our Black history education via Rap lyrics crowdsourcing project: "Behind Enemy Lines" by Dead Prez ( ) — 2000.
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Notes from Vijay: "When I heard 'Behind Enemy Lines' by Dead Prez, I was immediately struck by their ability to draw threads from the late 1960's to police violence and the prison industrial complex in my lifetime by rapping about the struggles of Fred Hampton's son. This song woke me to the multi-generational legacy of police surveillance in Black communities, as well as the idea that prison is not just a mechanism of punishment, but also a mechanism of containment and control."
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Good lookin' out, Vijay! 🤘🖤 Read more below to learn how to contribute a song, and view all the songs that have been submitted...
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(originally posted 6/19/20) HAPPY JUNETEENTH! On this day (as we should *every* day), let's take the opportunities all around us to enrich our knowledge about Black history. It was said recently by an influential individual that, "Black history is more than just Hip Hop." True... but as Hip Hop heads worldwide know, Rap lyrics have been a crucial avenue, and even entry point for learning about the history, struggles, and triumphs of the African Diaspora, particularly Black people in the United States.

In that spirit, we are launching an ongoing crowdsourcing project to create a robust list of songs containing Rap lyrics specifically about Black history and perspectives which can be used as a resource for education. Of course, we must bear in mind that Rap lyrics are poetic, not prosaic; they are artistic interpretations of historical facts, socio-political perspectives, etc. These songs should lead you to do more research!

We are asking YOU to contribute selections for this list. PLEASE VISIT bit.ly/rapblackhistory for the details. PEACE!
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Lyrical contribution from emcee, Prophecy of the Native Hip Hop crew, Antithesis () for our Black history education via Rap lyrics crowdsourcing project: "Field N****" by Reason () — 2020.
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Prophecy's favorite line: "Harriet [Tubman] talked to me, said it would all be alright. Be back in a couple days, gather up all the slaves, left in a couple seconds so no attention was raised but why leave the place that I was raised? Field N****, that's all I know."
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Good lookin' out, Prophecy! 🤘🖤 Read more below to learn how to contribute a song, and view all the songs that have been submitted...
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(originally posted 6/19/20) HAPPY JUNETEENTH! On this day (as we should *every* day), let's take the opportunities all around us to enrich our knowledge about Black history. It was said recently by an influential individual that, "Black history is more than just Hip Hop." True... but as Hip Hop heads worldwide know, Rap lyrics have been a crucial avenue, and even entry point for learning about the history, struggles, and triumphs of the African Diaspora, particularly Black people in the United States.

In that spirit, we are launching an ongoing crowdsourcing project to create a robust list of songs containing Rap lyrics specifically about Black history and perspectives which can be used as a resource for education. Of course, we must bear in mind that Rap lyrics are poetic, not prosaic; they are artistic interpretations of historical facts, socio-political perspectives, etc. These songs should lead you to do more research!

We are asking YOU to contribute selections for this list. PLEASE VISIT bit.ly/rapblackhistory for the details. PEACE!
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