Sick of Spoken Word, Sick of Dead Prez

Sick of Spoken Word, Sick of Dead Prez
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Chelsea, NYC
I am sitting here at the AFRICAWIREDHip-Hop Digital Youth REmix Film Screening.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything uniquely "Africa, Hip-Hop, Youth or Digital" about anything I've seen or heard.
The DJ on the right hasn't played ONE piece from Africa - Roots and Tribe Called Quest doesn't count. The spoken word poet just yelled at the audience for being priveldged enough to watch these films - and that we should go to Africa and help the starving children. Fuck you. The last thing a performer should do is yell at their audience and make them feel guilty for attempting to empathize with your "artistic ass." Why is your poetic ass not in Africa - why are you in Chelsea NYC at a new media arts gallerytelling us about the "starving children?"
The previous film was about how South Africans worshop Dead Prez.I just don't accept that African Hip-Hop is all about a Hegemonic Western Imported Hip-Hop model where Dead Prez rules. Anyways the lead rapper of Dead Prez, M-1, gave my friend chlamydiawhen they were monogamous. hmmmm. And he denied it when she confronted him about it. Now how righteous is that?