Class struggle and hip-hop: interview with Comrade Malone, 2009 Hip-hop has seen artists with social and political awareness. Rarely, however, has there been hip…
Small Axe by Verbal Terrorists Geordie hip-hop crew the Verbal Terrorists’ Small Axe brings forthright radical messages to agitate, educate and entertain. Tom Jennings goes with the flow.
The 3rd World, by Immortal Technique and DJ Green Lantern (Viper Records 2008) The new release from Immortal Technique, hip-hop’s most implacable class warrior, thoroughly links…
Saul Williams, The Fader Label, 2005. Music review Review which finds that Saul Williams fails to translate potent political polemics into poetic musical magic...
Nuthin’ But a “G” Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap, by Eithne Quinn, Columbia University Press, 2005. Book review Tom Jennings reviews an invicisve history of an important contemporary music genre.
Ms Dynamite, Judgement Days, Polydor, 2005. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings judges Ms Dynamite’s second album a mismatch of unremarkable smooth music and…
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.
8 Mile, dir. Curtis Hanson (2003), Eminem and hip-hop. Film review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ essay on the Eminem phenomenon and its cultural context.
Beautiful Struggles and Gangsta Blues. Music review/essay – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings’ urban music review of the year 2004.
Pick A Bigger Weapon, The Coup, Epitaph Records, 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings Tom Jennings reviews a new album from the radical Cali rap duo.
Dead Prez: three new albums in 2006. Music review – Tom Jennings. A slew of new Dead Prez releases deepen and diversify revolutionary US hip-hop, according to Tom Jennings.
