Ya sou! I have been to Greece twice in the last year. The first time since I was a child. It was supposed to be a pilgrimmage. It wasn’t suddenly ground-breaking. However, I did learn something about myself and my place in the world. Home is neither here nor there. No place on a map. […]
If you saw The Motorcycle Diaries, you will learn about some of what Ernesto Guevara saw on his own trip through Peru. How much has changed since those revolutionary times, and the last calls of the gritos? More idealism than action. It was his own people that killed Che.
I am told, the indigenous […]
A Treatise: Rap and the American Dream by Angela Kariotis
It has been easy to denounce the harrowing state of Hip Hop, or more accurately, rap music. Hip Hop is experiencing a strenuous time while developing into adult-hood. Hip Hop is constantly referred to as a culture. I believe it is part of my culture, and […]
Your Peoples were Sleepin/ Mine was Pioneering/
From, Feta Funk –BZ JAM GreekHipHop
On his latest album, My Big Phat Greek…, rapper BZ JAM, a first-generation Greek-Canadian, features a track titled, Tower of Babel. This track is the album finale, and epitomizes how Hip Hop has gone global. According to the narrative in Genesis Chapter 11 […]