Message to the Grassroots: There’s a Message in that Rap!
An episode of Message to the Grassroots, a cable access talk show produced & hosted by Michael Zinzun from 1988-1998 at Pasadena Community Access Corporation, which is now Pasadena Media.
An episode of Message to the Grassroots, a cable access talk show produced & hosted by Michael Zinzun from 1988-1998 at Pasadena Community Access Corporation, which is now Pasadena Media.
Raw footage for “Chicago Slices,” a 1994-1995 television series on WPWR about life in and around Chicago. This video starts with a few minutes of footage of children doing a Chicago Slices promo. This is followed by footage of Ivan Watkins, who introduces us to his friends Julian, Andrew, and Duro Wicks, who are part of the rap group Kinetic Order. They discuss hip hop culture, and then head over to Duro’s house, where they meet up with another friend and circle up to freestyle rap.
BRIL BARRETT: Taps and raps simultaneously by the subway for the “Here’s My Story” segment of Chicago Slices. Video is over-exposed.
THE SLICK BOYS: 3 Cabrini Green cops that rap: ERIC DAVIS, JAMES MARTIN, and RANDY HOLCOMB SR. Interviews at Oz Park while they coached little league baseball, in Cabrini’s neighborhoods and parks, in police station, grocery store, and rapped with children on playground. Interview with Asst. Manager MIKE MERRILL.
THE SLICK BOYS: 3 Cabrini Green cops that rap: ERIC DAVIS, JAMES MARTIN, and RANDY HOLCOMB SR. Interviews at Oz Park while they coached little league baseball, in Cabrini’s neighborhoods and parks, in police station, grocery store, and rapped with children on playground. Interview with Asst. Manager MIKE MERRILL.
Tom Weinberg goes to Los Angeles to interview hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor. Audio levels are erratic. Much of the talk is concerned with the recent U.S. military intervention in Somalia. There are spots within the tape where the sounds cuts out almost completely.
Raw tape with hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor at radio station KCRW for his show “The Militant Mastermixx.” Audio levels are erratic.
Raw tape with hip hop pioneer Michael Mixxin Moor at radio station KCRW for his show “The Militant Mastermixx.”