{"id":5434,"date":"2013-05-02T18:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5434"},"modified":"2017-12-11T17:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T22:59:22","slug":"he-said-she-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=5434","title":{"rendered":"He Said, She Said"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5435\" style=\"width: 761px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5435\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5435\" title=\"Hip Hop Icon MC Lyte and Historial\/Cultural Critic Michael Eric Dyson at Syracuse University\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lytedysonconvo.jpg\" alt=\"Hip Hop Icon MC Lyte and Historial\/Cultural Critic Michael Eric Dyson took turns talking about the state of rap music and cultural events during a dialouge last night co-sponsored by the NAACP. The event was held in Hendricks Chapel.\" width=\"751\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lytedysonconvo.jpg 751w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/lytedysonconvo-300x100.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 751px) 100vw, 751px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hip Hop Icon MC Lyte and Historian\/cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson at Hendricks Chapel on the campus of Syracuse University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In an intimate, yet lively\u00a0conversation on Tuesday, rap icon MC Lyte and cultural critic\u00a0Michael Eric Dyson dissected Hip Hop Culture: past present and future.<\/p>\n<p>MC Lyte noted that the real raw Hip Hop lyrics and culture these days come from the slam poets, because a lot of them do it for\u00a0art&#8217;s sake\u00a0and not for money.\u00a0 She also noted that the corporate take-over of radio (and play-lists) keeps DJs from being able to break new songs like they did back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson added that we must be careful not to judge with revisionist history because at the time groups such as Public Enemy (now Rock-n-Roll Hall of Famers) were once considered <em>too black and too strong<\/em> to be played on radio.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F90518225&amp;show_artwork=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The event was co-sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the NAACP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an intimate, yet lively\u00a0conversation on Tuesday, rap icon MC Lyte and cultural critic\u00a0Michael Eric Dyson dissected Hip Hop Culture: past present and future. MC Lyte noted that the real raw Hip Hop lyrics and culture these days come from the slam poets, because a lot of them do it for\u00a0art&#8217;s sake\u00a0and not for money.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[2524,1152,145,131,2820,2819,197,64,2821],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5434"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24064,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5434\/revisions\/24064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}