hip hop

MC Izzy Brown

In an interview with 麻豆传媒 Radio, musician, activist and filmmaker Izzy Brown said there is 鈥減ower in people and when those people are dancing the cops don't know what to do鈥, writes Ruth Heymann.

The documentary Palestine Underground follows a group of artists who are challenging divisions between Palestinians living in the West Bank and those in Israel through the dance floor.

Hip hop, techno, trap and traditional music nurture new and known cultural impulses among Palestinians on either side of Israel鈥檚 West Bank wall, ushering in a new era of resistance.

US听rapper听Kendrick Lamar听has been awarded a听Pulitzer Prize in Music听for his critically acclaimed album听DAMN.Lamar became the first non-classical or jazz musician to ever win the prize, noted.

Mark Munk Ross is hip-hop guru Munkimuk 鈥 whose beats, rhythm, sense of humour and hard hitting themes have earned him the coveted title of 鈥淕randfather of Indigenous hip hop鈥.

Mark has been working in a remote Aboriginal community at Brewarrina in north-western New South Wales, regenerating age-old fish traps that are the oldest known human-made structures, dating back farther than the pyramids of Egypt.听听

He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly about his recent projects.