by globalcipher_53ckum | Jan 18, 2024 | Events
Granary Theatre, Sunday 4 February 2023, 1 pm Theme: Space, Memory and Decoloniality in Contemporary Hip Hop: A dialogue between artists and scholars In the first edition of UCC Transbordagem: Hip Hop Overflowing Series, rap artists as well as leading Hip Hop and...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Nov 29, 2023 | Blog
CIPHER has just launched our Interactive Artist Map at https://globalcipher.org/3rdai-hip-hop-research-engine/ — this will form the basis of the 3rdAI Hip Hop Research Engine which we hope to launch in January for Beta Testing with a massive lyric database and...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Nov 14, 2023 | Gems
From the mysterious mountains of Latin America, some compelling gems arise in hip-hop lyrics. The rap crew, Crack Family from Bogotá, Colombia rhymes in their hit “Medicina” (which has some very cool images of Colombian mountains in the music video):...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Nov 2, 2023 | Gems
In my fieldwork in Japan, my man Jase Ng took me to see the “Hip Hop City” Mural in Kawasaki–the diverse working class city on the outskirts of Tokyo. There at the left of this epic monument to hip hop in Japan, the artist Dragon76 has connected hip...
by globalcipher_53ckum | Oct 26, 2023 | Gems
The name of our recently departed brother, the Mozambican MC, Azagaia, means “spear” — a reference to his anticolonial cultural politics and his “words as weapons” artistic ethos. CIPHER Team member, Janne Rantala, describes his views in...
