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Welcome to Hip Hop Movie Club, the show that harmonizes the rhythm of hip hop with the magic of movies.

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Today we're giving thanks and recapping our biggest year yet.

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We are three old heads who put their old heads together to vibe on these films for you.

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I'm DynoWright, podcaster, filmmaker, longtime hip hop fan, and I want to know who's been

naughty or nice with a device turning grown men into mice.

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I'm JB, 80s and 90s nostalgia junkie, long time hip hop fan, and I'm too blessed to be

stressed and too legit to quit.

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Ha ha ha ha ha.

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y'all, your guys in the rhymes, man.

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Put me to shame.

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I'm BooGie, a DJ, longtime hip hop fan, and I don't know about you, many of you listening, but this year has absolutely flown by.

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That is

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Yeah.

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year.

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That's a fact.

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Time flies when you're having fun and we had a boatload of fun in 2024.

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We had jokingly called it The Takeover

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because we were trying to take things over here with HHMC, Hip Hop Movie Club.

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I think we did a lot of big things.

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And again, as DynoWright mentioned, we wanted to express our gratitude to our loyal listeners,

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those that attended our multiple live events.

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We appreciate you.

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So thank you.

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Spread the word.

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Keep coming back.

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We're trying to provide these interactive cultural experiences beyond your typical movie

screenings or discussions.

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So once again, thank you.

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Amen.

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Yes, yes.

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So let's recap some of the stuff we did kind of almost in a chronology.

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We can reflect on our favorite aspects of some of these things.

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we kick, hit the ground running, I should say.

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We hit the ground running in January of this year, 2024.

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Multiple episodes released on some movies.

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A live event we did was at Princeton's Wintersession when there's a break in between semesters.

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We did that for a

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DynoWright, you want to talk about some highlights of what we did over there in Princeton?

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in Sure!

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We ran through some highlights of hip hop movies, and especially had some interactive stuff.

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Thank you to DJ ARM 18 for doing a demo of scratching and turntabling.

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And my own brother Jey Prime for a breakdancing demo.

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Pretty great.

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Hmm, dope stuff.

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Yeah, that was great to be interactive.

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had several people there.

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You know, there was a bit of a blizzard.

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We had a handful of people in the building there, Princeton.

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We had some on Zoom, but it was great.

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We have folks scratching records, breakdance demos, you said.

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We talked about some of the hip hop stars that had become actors.

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and just the overall impact of hip hop.

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Try to talk about all the different elements of hip hop.

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So that was a great way to kick off the year.

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Yeah, I got the tag up the wall with some, with the chalk, little graffiti montage on the

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Yeah, it's cool.

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It was a good event.

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see BooGie's stylings of his graffiti from his younger days, but he's still active with it.

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So it's awesome.

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It's awesome.

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say now that we will be back at Wintersession in January.

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More details to come.

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So those of you in the Princeton community, at least the Princeton campus community, come

check us out.

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More info will be out on our socials.

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HHMC goes Ivy League again.

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Breaking news on the 2024 recap!

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Also in January, towards the end of January, we went to our other home away from home,

SteelStacks in Bethlehem, where we helped support a screening of Wild Style, the original

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Also in January, towards the end of January, we went to our other home away from home,

SteelStacks in Bethlehem, where we helped support a screening of Wild Style, the original

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hip hop themed movie.

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that DJ ARM 18 had actually put on as part of his 50 Years Down the Line.

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And that included a live performance with the Cold Crush Brothers.

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That was incredible.

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Yeah, yep.

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So,

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from the director, Charlie Ahearn, as well.

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Charlie Ahearn was in the building, in the flesh, chilling.

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Mm-hmm.

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Grandmixer DXT spinning.

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So that was terrific.

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him cut up a little bit as well, which was dope.

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He was one of the original turntablists, they say, pioneer in the DJ world.

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And Grandmaster Caz, true legend.

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We got to meet and greet with him.

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You may have seen on our socials, we had our photograph with him as well with Charlie Ahearn.

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And they put on a live performance after the screening over there at SteelStacks and they did not miss a beat.

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It was like three-part harmony.

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And I was just wowed by that.

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Yeah, I mean, that was the signature classic

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And that's what made them a hit.

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like, everybody at the time was trying to emulate that style

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of just going back and forth and passing the rhyme from one

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member to the other without missing a beat.

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it was crazy to see that, like, you know, after all of these years.

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they said they hadn't performed in a while together.

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And they just jumped out on there and was just like, boom, here we are.

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And it was just like they just went right into it.

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And yeah, I mean, we learned a little bit behind the scenes how

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Grandmaster Caz had written the lyrics for Sugarhill Gang's Rappers Delight.

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Yeah, true legend in the game.

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That was an incredible experience.

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We got to hang out a little bit after the show with him as well.

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Thank you to Q and V at Taste Smokers for that.

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That was straight up VIP.

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Like I was walking on clouds after that night.

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I couldn't believe it.

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to start the year.

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What a way to start the year.

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heading back to our alma mater, Rider University, and we attended an event, Samples and Friends.

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Naa'san Carr, shout out to him for putting that on.

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Thank you, Naa’san.

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Yessir.

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and he's doing big things.

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And so we participated in that event and BooGie was dominating, answering all the questions.

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And they were playing a sample and you would get points for saying the original sample

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song and artist and then the hip hop song that sampled it.

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they grouped us into teams and...

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He's like, yeah, I've been a DJ for years.

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I was a DJ before you were born pretty much.

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some of your parents were partying.

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have been responsible for some of them.

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man, continue with live events.

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We did a live screening of the movie Juice, starring Tupac, Omar Epps and others at SteelStacks in Bethlehem.

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That we have a film series at all.

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Great setup, they do so much for the arts and we are blessed to

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have our own film series, Hip Hop Movie Club film series.

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You can find our information on SteelStacks.org.

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multiple screenings anytime we mentioned SteelStacks.

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They do an amazing job.

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They're very cordial.

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Putting dope events out there and we're just happy to be part of it.

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they signed on as our official sponsors and just been promoting and having prizes and giving

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so we can have more in attendance.

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This has been great.

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It's been great.

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They've expanded.

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We're talking to ARM.

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It's like they were just in Lehigh Valley,

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Allentown, Bethlehem area, as well as State College, and now they're up in Scranton as well.

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Taking over all of PA.

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right on, right on.

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You listen on iHeartRadio to Loud Radio, streaming all the time.

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I love their throwback sets at lunchtime.

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Yeah, they do an amazing mix.

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But all throughout the day, yep.

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Can't go wrong with a throwback at noon set.

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That’ll get you going.

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Expanding our realm, we kind of dove into some of these

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hip hop adjacent films as well, like Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

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We love that film.

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A feast for all the senses, and it's got an amazing soundtrack.

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Yeah, the soundtrack, the visuals, top notch.

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lot of hip hop culture in that one.

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And DynoWright, you had hooked up at a prior event with John and Josh from the Serious Rap Shit podcast

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and you got them to come onto our show.

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We interviewed them about their documentary, Another Word for Paradise.

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about hip-hop in India, yes.

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It was great to have them on.

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Shout out to John Morrison and Josh Leidy.

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Thank you to those two guys.

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Yeah, those two guys were great guests.

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Mutual respect between us and those guys.

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We went back to Rider shortly thereafter.

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We did an event called Let's Hear It For The Girls.

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So it was in or around Women's History Month.

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And so our event was geared towards the women of hip hop.

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And we talked about the most influential hip hop artists.

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female hip-hop artists, should say.

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So, I BooGie's expert on all things Queen Latifah.

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She was prominently featured.

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Dana Owens and Lauryn Hill.

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So we gave them their flowers.

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Thank you to Cynthia Martinez from Rider and thank you to Djenaba Figueroa for being our panelists.

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Yep, that was a lot of fun.

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And our brothers from the SigEp, Sigma Phi Epsilon, showed out as well.

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En masse.

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That was dope. That was real dope.

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Our next event that we did back at SteelStacks in Bethlehem was Krush Groove.

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So we did the screening of Krush Groove and a talk back.

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We did some trivia and prizes.

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Classic film.

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That was our first of the official Hip Hop Movie Club Film Series.

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That was it.

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That kicked it off.

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And what a way to kick it off with a classic, you know, Krush Groove.

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I mean, talk about iconic hip hop films and you have Wild Style, you know, Breakin', Beat Street.

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Krush Groove is definitely one of them.

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I mean, the story that it tells,

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semi-autobiographical, semi-historical retelling of the founding of Def Jam Records.

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with all of these iconic artists in it, all household names,

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LL Cool J, Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, New Edition's cameo, Fat Boys, and then Sheila E.

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and then Sheila E.

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In April we had the great honor and pleasure

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to be able to meet Chuck D at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem

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all thanks to DJ ARM 18 for putting that on so

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You may remember DJ ARM 18 is a professor at Northampton Community College in addition to being a DJ

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and as the capstone event for the humanities program

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He had Chuck D come to campus and wow, I mean, that was very widely attended.

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So inspirational, his words.

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Yeah. That gymnasium was packed.

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Front to back.

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Yeah.

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I was in awe.

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I'm a fanboy too, I'm Chuck D, man.

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That's my man right there.

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I was trying to stay calm.

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Ahahaha!

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know.

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It's funny because we got there early and I was kind of fanboying.

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I saw him walk by and I was tapping.

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I was tapping his shoulders like, just walked by.

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And I was like, all right, stay cool, stay cool.

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And he was nice enough to stay as long as needed to meet everybody.

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was really nice of him and above and beyond.

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Yeah, every fan.

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He didn't turn one fan away.

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That was amazing.

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Yeah, I mean, I know we did a whole episode about his appearance with DJ ARM so I won’t rehash it all but I mean,

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he was just, again, so inspiring that he talked to,

he had students on

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the stage, they had a panel discussion.

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he, he told them take advantage of all the resources they have.

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He was a historian, not only of music, but of, American history, the, the trials and tribulations of

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of the African Americans and their plight and migration from the south up north.

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Just like amazing and multifaceted, multi-talented.

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You may not know that, you know, he created multiple graphic novels in more recent years.

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So he's expanded his horizons and his vision and really just incredible appearance there.

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And how.

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Yep.

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Yep, yep, We continued multiple episodes.

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Dope, The Wood, these are like love letters to hip hop.

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All the Streets Are Silent, which was a documentary about

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the unlikely marriage between skateboarding and hip hop, how they influence each other.

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Talked about the beginnings of some of your favorite brands like Supreme, you know, Zoo York.

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Yeah.

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That’s right.

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Yeah, as we head into the summer, multiple episodes.

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And then I was happy to host you guys here at my home for a retreat.

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We had a really nice time.

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So we mixed in business with pleasure.

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Got to hang out, do a little bit swimming.

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The Allentown Farmers Market was a highlight as well.

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Thumbs up, two thumbs up to that.

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Yeah.

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Good eats.

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We had to go back there again.

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We also went to Taste Smokers.

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we went back.

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Q and V didn't happen to be there at the time, but we had a great meal over there as well.

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Yeah.

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in on them, but the food was still good.

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And thank you, JB, for hosting us.

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That was a great experience and I appreciate that.

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Yeah, good times.

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on.

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my pleasure.

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shout out to Mrs.

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DynoWright for helping us out as well.

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Our financial wizard.

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Yeah, behind the scenes, helping us out, organizing our business aspect.

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Big time, big time.

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much respect.

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Exactly.

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Yep, as summer wind down and then towards the end, we had

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one of my most memorable events for you guys as well,

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screening of the original House Party movie, but we had the brothers from Full Force

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in the house with us on the stage and

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we had an awesome Q &A with them as part of that.

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Yeah, that was a special treat.

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Yeah, those guys are amazing.

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And so gracious.

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Thanks to thanks to Bowlegged Lou and Paul Anthony and and B-Fine.

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Yes, of course.

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Warrington Hudlin, he was gracious enough to help us out, know, connect us with Full Force.

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Thank you, Warrington.

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Thank you, Warrington Hudlin.

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Thanks for ARM to hook us up with that connection.

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Yet again.

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yeah.

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Out of three of us I got to spend more time with those guys kind of shepherding them around a little bit showing them some of the sights of

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Bethlehem and I had an amazing time

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Bowlegged Lou his character he's just as funny and genuine as as he sounds when you see him in the panel

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He's a born entertainer

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But again, he's very gracious.

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The funny thing is we had this panel and right afterwards he goes, hey, let me take a selfie with you.

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He's acting like we are the celebrities.

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I'm like, wait a second.

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I was like, this is amazing.

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I was like, no way.

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We got him one of our hip hop movie club t-shirts and he donned it, sent a picture with

it.

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It was awesome.

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We also met Tyrone Lowe through that as well.

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that's right.

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And Tyrone has a series called The Legends.

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If you haven't checked out Tyrone Lowe on YouTube, he interviews a lot of R &B legends.

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He does an amazing job with these interviews and he was representing us one of his interviews recently as well.

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So shout out to Tyrone.

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We'd love to collaborate with you a little bit more in the future also.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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And Tyrone is also a DJ as well.

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He pulls some of his mixes up as well.

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So yeah.

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Good dude.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, yeah, good dude yeah, Full Force.

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those guys are insane.

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You don't realize, I mean, people may know them only as the bullies in that movie,

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such a storied and accomplished career founding acts such as Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam.

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They wrote a song or two for Bob Dylan.

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They worked with James Brown, Samantha Fox, but their own, I mean, multiple albums of

their own, like

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Almost a dozen albums.

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and and big songs.

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We could go on and on.

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Fantastic.

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what a fantastic career and they're still going strong.

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They were at the Pass the Mic event that you went to BooGie recently.

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That's right.

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Yeah, it is funny.

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I'm sitting in the audience and I'm texting Bowlegged Lou like, yo, I'm waiting for you guys to come out.

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He responded.

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He told me when they were coming out and I got a clip of them performing.

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Yeah.

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Good stuff.

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stuff.

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That's amazing.

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So yeah.

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And we didn't stop there.

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I mean, we did multiple episodes.

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We put out an episode about House Party 2.

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We talked about Do the Right Thing versus Boyz n the Hood, two of the most prominent

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hip hop-themed movies and kind of debate the merits of both and the relevancy.

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And then as if that wasn't enough,

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think this was in September, we had a screening of 8 Mile.

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But again, with our connections, we were able to interview Craig G,

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who ghost wrote some of the rap battle scenes in that movie.

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Hip-hop pioneer Craig G.

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So that was an awesome experience also.

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You want to talk about that, BooGie?

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Yeah, Craig G of the legendary Juice Crew, know, ran with

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the likes of Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shante, Masta Ace, you know, et cetera.

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And one of the greatest hip hop collaboration songs of all time, the symphony,

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you know, I mean, he actually sat, you know, in this interview, we talked about his involvement in 8

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Mile, he gave us some background insight into the movie, how he became involved with it.

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It was just a great, great interview.

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And he was just so humble and down to earth.

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Mad chill.

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And also, you know, just throw this in there.

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He's got a new album, you know, some songs got some new material out.

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So check Craig G out as well.

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Shout out to you, Craig.

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And check him out.

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He's got some good stuff coming up.

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Thank you, Craig.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that was amazing experience.

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We kind of shift gears a little bit and instead of doing just

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straight up movies or some of these debate topics, we also

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just did a deep dive into the career of some of

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the most prominent artists that had transformed from straight up,

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just hip hop artists into just these world renowned entertainers on the big screen,

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whether it be silver screen or the big screen and or the

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TV or movies, I should say.

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And it was like, we did LL Cool J, we did Ice Cube, talk about their careers and their transformation.

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Those were lot of fun.

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And we even did an episode on Teen Titans Go.

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The De La Soul episode of course Yes

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classic episode.

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That's right.

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You can learn something from an episode too if you pay attention.

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So yeah, if you haven't watched that episode,

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don't think it's a silly cartoon, you know, check it out.

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You're gonna learn something.

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You will learn something, guaranteed.

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for short time investment is something like 11 or 12 minutes

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of your time and it's chock full of knowledge.

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Yeah, for you old heads, think Schoolhouse Rock.

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That's right.

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That's right.

437

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And then more recently, we went back to our alma mater once again.

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For the homecoming weekend, we did a live show with Professor Mickey Hess.

439

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Mickey Hess was just a fountain of hip hop knowledge as well.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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He's such a good guy, man.

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And he had a lot of, he had a lot of insight.

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I was very impressed with his insight

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and even talking about topics that, you know, he wasn't at Rider for, he still had insight into those in the background, little tidbits of

447

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information, dropping little knowledge nuggets here and there.

448

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It's like, wow, this is great.

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, I mean he's written multiple books about hip hop

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and he wrote one of the most prominent pieces on Ol' Dirty Bastard.

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Yeah.

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Mm-hmm.

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Mm-hmm.

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very, very well connected to hip hop.

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And BooGie, you impressed me with your knowledge of

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everything as usual and all your experiences back at Rider when you were

458

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pretty big with the SEC, Student Entertainment

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Council, bringing some of these prominent acts to campus, but also doing crowd control,

hype man, hospitality suite, everything.

460

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bringing some of these prominent acts to campus, but also doing crowd control, hype man, hospitality suite, everything.

461

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That's right.

462

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Yeah, that was probably one of the best decisions I ever made.

463

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And I joined SEC my first semester as a freshman, had no clue what I was doing, but that

was one of the best experiences I've ever had.

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The best decision was joining that group, man.

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I got stories.

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I got tons of stories.

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yeah, I mean, again, you go back and listen to our episode with Mickey Hess,

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because you will hear some stories BooGie is telling, just sitting here and this guy's kind of

469

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spouting off and criticizing people about their lyrics as rap battle.

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And it's none other than Jay-Z,

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you know, meeting Phife Dawg and Biz Markie and so many others and Lauryn Hill and the Fugees and just like these.

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Iconic acts right on the Rider small small campus right there in Lawrenceville, New Jersey

473

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and BooGie's right right in the midst of it all.

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Yep

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Mm-hmm.

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We did our homage to Ronald Young's Leaving the Theater by going to see Piece by Piece.

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So this was something unique that I think I concocted.

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was like, we should really go see a movie together.

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And we met kind of at a midpoint.

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And we saw Piece by Piece, which was the Pharrell Williams biopic, which is done with LEGOs.

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Creative movie for just a creative cat.

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It was an awesome movie.

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So I would recommend doing that.

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And then.

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DynoWright with his creative genius actually LEGOized or LEGO-fied us

486

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for that for our YouTube For that that was amazing

487

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Yeah, thank you, DynoWright for that.

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That was fun.

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That was fun.

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The visual on that was so fun.

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So unexpected.

492

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guys.

493

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Yeah, that was awesome.

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We literally recorded it at a diner so you could hear in the background a waitress coming

over.

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That was awesome.

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It's a spontaneous thing.

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Yeah.

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character.

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Yeah, did.

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did.

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Ambience, they call it.

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man.

503

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That was hurt.

504

00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:21,791

I had a lot of fun.

505

00:27:22,750 --> 00:27:33,500

And then most recently, this was November 13th think the date was, is we did Boyz n the

Hood screening.

506

00:27:33,958 --> 00:27:41,958

So between that time and now, just most recently, the SteelStacks upgraded the Frank Banko Alehouse cinemas to 4K.

507

00:27:41,958 --> 00:27:44,791

So we showed Boyz n the Hood.

508

00:27:44,875 --> 00:27:49,416

in 4k and you can tell the difference with the imagery and the sound system.

509

00:27:49,416 --> 00:27:55,041

To see Boyz n the Hood in that format was almost like an out of body experience.

510

00:27:55,041 --> 00:27:56,166

It was amazing.

511

00:27:56,166 --> 00:27:57,833

was fantastic.

512

00:27:58,208 --> 00:27:59,041

Yeah, that's it.

513

00:27:59,041 --> 00:28:06,416

that, had BooGie hosted a very insightful panel discussion with, and again, we're going to do some shout outs and thank yous

514

00:28:06,416 --> 00:28:09,625

to Ali Akarcesme, professor of film at Kutztown

515

00:28:09,625 --> 00:28:13,708

University, DJ ARM 18 again, once again, professor

516

00:28:13,708 --> 00:28:16,833

Northampton Community College, and Vernard James, young filmmaker.

517

00:28:16,833 --> 00:28:18,625

He works for ASR Media,

518

00:28:18,625 --> 00:28:23,416

graduate of DeSales University, who's won multiple awards for some of his short films.

519

00:28:24,291 --> 00:28:25,875

What an amazing experience.

520

00:28:25,875 --> 00:28:29,125

So BooGie, amazing job once again, hosting that panel.

521

00:28:29,666 --> 00:28:30,416

I learned so much.

522

00:28:30,416 --> 00:28:31,666

I thought I knew.

523

00:28:32,875 --> 00:28:36,041

I thought I knew a lot about the movie because we analyzed it, we analyzed it,

524

00:28:36,041 --> 00:28:39,333

but they just keep, know, new switches keep going on, like new light bulbs.

525

00:28:39,333 --> 00:28:42,000

wait, I didn't even think about aspect or how did that tie together?

526

00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:52,583

like, I mean, the aspect of LA being an actual character in the film or like the stop sign

and the symbolism and the imagery and how all these different aspects tie together.

527

00:28:52,583 --> 00:28:53,666

Talk about the

528

00:28:53,666 --> 00:29:02,500

socioeconomic impact and deeper dive on gentrification and other key components were, wow, that was just amazing.

529

00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:06,750

Like, yeah, for sure.

530

00:29:06,750 --> 00:29:12,958

as one who's I mean, I've watched Boyz n the Hood so many times, probably most recently as maybe a couple of weeks ago.

531

00:29:12,958 --> 00:29:16,791

And there were aspects that, you know, things that they were talking about in the film

532

00:29:16,791 --> 00:29:21,500

that I didn't even and hadn't even thought about, like you mentioned those aspects.

533

00:29:21,583 --> 00:29:28,625

And I mean, as a social as a former sociology major, you know, at Rider, I mean, it was

great to participate in panel.

534

00:29:28,625 --> 00:29:31,291

So I thank you guys for, you know, allowing me to.

535

00:29:31,291 --> 00:29:33,041

to host that as well.

536

00:29:33,208 --> 00:29:35,750

And it was just great to have that discussion.

537

00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:40,666

I mean, if we had more time, we could have got so deep.

538

00:29:40,666 --> 00:29:45,541

I kept looking at my watch like, my God, I don't wanna go over, I don't wanna go over, I don't wanna go over.

539

00:29:45,625 --> 00:29:47,208

But like, it was just amazing.

540

00:29:47,208 --> 00:29:49,000

That was such a great experience.

541

00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,541

And I thank the panelists again for coming out and being a part of it.

542

00:29:55,375 --> 00:29:57,250

Yeah, right on.

543

00:29:57,250 --> 00:30:02,708

and this aligns with ArtsQuest’s mission is bringing these cultural experiences and deeper dives.

544

00:30:02,708 --> 00:30:03,875

So they appreciated it.

545

00:30:03,875 --> 00:30:09,375

And I think it's, again, a great partnership we have with the venue over there.

546

00:30:09,375 --> 00:30:12,875

So shout out to ArtsQuest, SteelStacks.

547

00:30:13,791 --> 00:30:14,750

Yeah.

548

00:30:15,375 --> 00:30:16,333

Yeah.

549

00:30:16,458 --> 00:30:17,791

I love that place.

550

00:30:19,458 --> 00:30:21,208

It’s definitely become like second home.

551

00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,208

Yeah, yeah.

552

00:30:23,208 --> 00:30:25,791

At this point, we should, yeah.

553

00:30:27,166 --> 00:30:31,166

Put a little HHMC in the rafters up there.

554

00:30:31,708 --> 00:30:34,583

They're joking that we have a, yeah, exactly.

555

00:30:34,583 --> 00:30:36,166

That's fun.

556

00:30:36,375 --> 00:30:39,416

speaking of shout outs, man, I gotta just give a shout out to

557

00:30:39,416 --> 00:30:46,166

my man, Anthony Garcia, once again, he helped furnish us with our big signage and banners that we have on the tables.

558

00:30:46,458 --> 00:30:51,708

I know he's trying to work on something for BooGie as well, but Anthony Garcia, great,

great guy.

559

00:30:52,041 --> 00:30:55,708

We have a lot of our regular viewers, my man Bob.

560

00:30:56,166 --> 00:31:03,750

Coy, you know, my son Iceberg, he, he, surprised me and came all the way from college for that last one Boyz n the Hood.

561

00:31:03,750 --> 00:31:07,416

So, yeah, proud of proud of our following.

562

00:31:07,416 --> 00:31:07,750

Yep.

563

00:31:07,750 --> 00:31:13,083

Our man Caddy Mike, Caddy Mike, Caddy Mike, that's our brother right there, man.

564

00:31:13,083 --> 00:31:14,541

Caddy Mike comes out.

565

00:31:15,083 --> 00:31:15,625

Mm-hmm.

566

00:31:15,625 --> 00:31:15,958

yeah.

567

00:31:15,958 --> 00:31:19,833

Caddy Mike, man, he's doing an event coming up soon this upcoming weekend.

568

00:31:19,833 --> 00:31:22,375

Well, actually, by the time this records, I think it'll be passed.

569

00:31:22,375 --> 00:31:25,583

But yeah, he's doing a lot of shows in and around the area.

570

00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:27,791

He does work in Stroudsburg, PA.

571

00:31:27,791 --> 00:31:29,166

He does some work in Brooklyn.

572

00:31:29,166 --> 00:31:30,250

He has his art there.

573

00:31:30,250 --> 00:31:34,333

He has some art on display at Taste Smokers that we mentioned before down in Bethlehem.

574

00:31:34,333 --> 00:31:35,833

So check out his work.

575

00:31:36,125 --> 00:31:39,333

You can check him out on the socials as well.

576

00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:41,625

Yeah, And be remiss if I didn't mention Cap Cee as well.

577

00:31:41,625 --> 00:31:44,791

Cap Cee's another DJ part of our collective.

578

00:31:46,750 --> 00:31:50,333

He was actually the DJ for that Chuck D event as well.

579

00:31:50,333 --> 00:31:57,208

So what a thrill was that for him to be DJing as people came in to see Chuck D speak.

580

00:31:57,208 --> 00:32:01,416

Cap Cee is kind of legend in his own right.

581

00:32:01,416 --> 00:32:05,541

He's worked with folks like Eminem and MTV and everything, but...

582

00:32:05,541 --> 00:32:09,708

He was kind of like in awe of that event and being able to meet Chuck D.

583

00:32:09,708 --> 00:32:13,041

But know, Cap Cee is a huge supporter and we always will support him as well.

584

00:32:13,041 --> 00:32:14,666

So shout out Cap Cee.

585

00:32:14,666 --> 00:32:16,708

Shout out to Cap, yes, thank you.

586

00:32:16,708 --> 00:32:17,458

Yep.

587

00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:20,833

It's crazy, we got this nice little collective.

588

00:32:20,833 --> 00:32:21,916

I like this.

589

00:32:24,666 --> 00:32:27,291

Yeah, we got crew.

590

00:32:27,291 --> 00:32:31,208

It's not too late to hop on, hop on board the train because this train is moving.

591

00:32:31,208 --> 00:32:32,000

This train is moving.

592

00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,666

You see all the stuff we accomplished in 2024.

593

00:32:34,708 --> 00:32:36,750

Big things ahead in 2025 already.

594

00:32:36,750 --> 00:32:40,791

We have our film series, gaining steam,

595

00:32:40,791 --> 00:32:46,791

trying to make some inroads, maybe with some podcast conventions and whatnot.

596

00:32:46,958 --> 00:32:51,375

Shout us out, look us up on the socials, hiphopmovieclub.com.

597

00:32:52,666 --> 00:32:54,458

We'd love to collaborate more.

598

00:32:55,416 --> 00:32:56,375

Right on.

599

00:32:56,708 --> 00:32:57,583

Absolutely.

600

00:32:58,166 --> 00:33:02,291

But yeah, wonderful year of content, so.

601

00:33:02,291 --> 00:33:05,041

You know, the good thing about this year coming to an end,

602

00:33:05,041 --> 00:33:08,458

we got a whole nother year next year to do some more.

603

00:33:08,625 --> 00:33:11,125

Hey!

604

00:33:11,458 --> 00:33:12,541

That's right.

605

00:33:14,208 --> 00:33:18,625

Yeah, mean, reflecting back, mean, we talk amongst ourselves

606

00:33:18,625 --> 00:33:22,041

as like we started this just two years, little over.

607

00:33:22,125 --> 00:33:23,583

It'll be three years in April, I think.

608

00:33:23,583 --> 00:33:23,875

Right.

609

00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:25,291

So just not even three years.

610

00:33:25,291 --> 00:33:30,833

And we started it just as like it was DynoWright's brainchild because he was a big podcast aficionado.

611

00:33:30,833 --> 00:33:34,458

Like, hey, you guys, we should do a podcast about hip hop and movies.

612

00:33:34,458 --> 00:33:36,791

I don't think anybody's really doing much with that.

613

00:33:37,041 --> 00:33:39,333

So if nothing else, there's nothing else.

614

00:33:39,333 --> 00:33:41,208

This keeps us together and meeting us regularly.

615

00:33:41,208 --> 00:33:44,333

So we stay in touch, but it's grown.

616

00:33:45,416 --> 00:33:46,666

Very magical.

617

00:33:47,041 --> 00:33:47,875

Yeah.

618

00:33:49,708 --> 00:33:55,000

And so, there's a lot to be said about creativity and expressing yourself.

619

00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:01,000

I've been very thankful for having you guys to experience this with.

620

00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,291

So thank you both, appreciate you.

621

00:34:03,458 --> 00:34:03,916

Yep.

622

00:34:03,916 --> 00:34:05,291

likewise.

623

00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,041

This has got me through some stuff.

624

00:34:08,041 --> 00:34:09,416

God knows it has.

625

00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:12,250

I'm very grateful for you for that.

626

00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:13,875

That's fantastic.

627

00:34:13,875 --> 00:34:15,333

And thank you two guys because what do they say?

628

00:34:15,416 --> 00:34:18,458

Let's quote our late great friend Tony Whalen,

629

00:34:18,458 --> 00:34:26,250

you know teamwork makes the dream work Yeah, I feel like we have Tony as a guardian angel watching over us.

630

00:34:26,250 --> 00:34:30,250

So Always always always carry him.

631

00:34:32,208 --> 00:34:37,333

Hip-hop movie club is produced by your HHMC's JB BooGie and DynoWright.

632

00:34:37,333 --> 00:34:39,208

Theme music by BooGie.

633

00:34:39,208 --> 00:34:42,250

We got a bunch of live events in 2025 coming up.

634

00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:45,500

You can learn more on our website, hiphopmovieclub.com.

635

00:34:45,500 --> 00:34:52,416

On February 5th at SteelStacks in Bethlehem, we are presenting a screening of Breakin' with some live breakdancing demos.

636

00:34:52,791 --> 00:34:55,000

Tickets at SteelStacks.org.

637

00:34:55,166 --> 00:34:59,666

Whether you're listening to the podcast or watching us on YouTube, please give us a follow.

638

00:34:59,666 --> 00:35:01,458

It's a real power up for us.

639

00:35:01,458 --> 00:35:02,833

Thanks for tuning in.

640

00:35:03,833 --> 00:35:07,166

And remember, don't hate, appreciate.

641

00:35:10,625 --> 00:35:12,041

Thanks, everybody.

642

00:35:12,041 --> 00:35:13,166

Thank you all.

643

00:35:13,750 --> 00:35:14,791

Thank you, listener.

644

00:35:14,791 --> 00:35:15,875

Okay.

645

00:35:16,250 --> 00:35:17,166

Yes.