The Hip Hop effect

I’m so tempted to write a long post about this as I’m such a fan and it’s a perfect excuse to reminisce over my Hip Hop DJ’ing days but I won’t. I’ll keep it nice and short. Hip Hop turned thirty, with three decades since the release of the of the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight.

Since then Hip Hop has grown from an underground artistic movement in the Bronx in New York in the 1970’s, to a mainstream industry that crossed over not only to millions of Americans but to people arround the globe. But has it all been good?

Have you given up on Pakistan ?

Pakistani militancy may be spreading throughout the country- not just the border region – according to this article. This is what’s happened there in the last week :

*12 October: 41 killed in bombing in Alpurai*10-11 October: 19 killed in raid on army HQ, Rawalpindi * 9 October: 49 killed in bombing in Peshawar* 5 October: Five killed in suicide blast in UN’s Islamabad office.

Talk to the WHYS team online

UPDATE: Ok, we’re done. It wasn’t quite like throwing a party and no-one came, but not far off. Maybe we need to do it later, so that those of you in the States can take part. Maybe off the back of a show could be a good move. Is it worth doing it again? I think so as I like the idea of working on us having more real time conversations. Thanks to those of you who took part.

Here’s how it went…

Talking about talking – today at 1330GMT here

UPDATE: We’ve shifted the time forward by 90 mins so Mark can make this. So it’s 1330GMT now.

We’re going to try something new today, and run a post for 20 minutes or so where some of the WHYS team will be online to talk with you about any part of how we facilitate conversations between all of you. And those of us not taking part with comments will be moderating all the time to make sure the conversation is as immediate as it can be.