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Stepping Your Game Up

Technical Innovation among young people of color in hip-hop

Kevin Driscoll
Comparative Media Studies, MIT
driscoll @ mit.edu

krs-one

"Rap is something you do
Hip-hop is something you live
You are not just doing hip-hop
You are hip-hop"



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tape deck

Grandmaster Flash party tapes 1978-1979

This is what we called Disco

Audio: Grandmaster Flash - Live at Audubon Ballroom, 1978
Video: Wild Style, 1982

Rapper's Delight
Sugarhill Gang
1979

Beanie Sigel label side a

Beanie Sigel label side b

Ron G and Kid Capri on Yo! MTV Raps
(date unknown)

DJ Clue tapes

Show me the money, 1997; Clue?? for president pt. 3, 1998; The ruler's back pt 1, 1999

DJ Clue CDs

I'm a show you how to do this pt 1, 2002; The minatti report, 2003; Hate me now pt 2, 2003

telecommunications act 1996

Telecommunications Act
1996

This is it pt 1
DJ Clue
1998

50 Cent mixtapes

50 Cent Is The Future, 2002
No Mercy, No Fear, 2002
God's Plan, 2002


50 Cent album

Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2003

Get Rich or Die Trying
2005

soulja boy first mixtape dvd

sb blog re mixtape

sb blog how to crank dat

sb blog getting signed

how to crank dat soulja boy crank dat soulja boy

lord of the ringtones

Lord of the Ringtones
DJ Woogie and Soulja Boy
2009

I could make a soulja boy beat
jehfree562
2008

bracketscompetition

Learning in Context
Digital Games and Young Black Men

Betsy James DiSalvo, Kevin Crowley, Roy Norwood
2008




http://kevindriscoll.info/docs/presentations/stepyourgameup/

Kevin Driscoll
Comparative Media Studies, MIT
driscoll @ mit.edu