Versus Hip Hop on Trial live Debate 7pm Tonite Youtube...BIG TINGS

[Supermalt]

Chair

• Emily Maitlis
  BBC Newsnight presenter
  

Web host

• Jemima Khan
  British writer and campaigner, associate editor of the New Statesman and European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair
  

Advocate for the motion

• Eamon Courtenay
  Attorney at Courtenay Coye law firm in Belize
  

Advocate against the motion

• Michael Eric Dyson
  Hip-hop intellectual and professor of sociology at Georgetown University
  

Witnesses

• Shaun Bailey
  Special adviser to the Prime Minister’s office on youth, crime and welfare issues
  
• Hattie Collins
  Music editor of i-D magazine
  
• Deeb
  Egyptian “Arab Spring” rapper
  
• Estelle (via Google+ Hangout)
  Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter
  
• dream hampton
  American hip-hop journalist, cultural critic and film-maker
  
• Jesse Jackson
  Civil rights activist, Baptist minister and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition
  
• KRS-One
  Hip-hop pioneer, record producer and activist
  
• Jaron Lanier
  American computer scientist, virtual reality pioneer and musician
  
• James Peterson
  Director of Africana Studies and Associate Professor of English at Lehigh University and founder of Hip Hop Scholars LLC
  
• P. J. O’Rourke (via Google+ Hangout)
  American political satirist and author
  
• Q-Tip (via Google+ Hangout)
  American rapper, producer and frontman of iconic hip-hop act A Tribe Called Quest
  
• ?uestlove (via Google+ Hangout)
  Co-founder of Grammy Award winning band The Roots, DJ, music journalist and producer
  
• Tricia Rose
  Brown University Professor and author of the groundbreaking books on hip-hop: Black Noise and The Hip Hop Wars
  
• Tony Sewell
  CEO of the charity Generating Genius
  
• Slaughterhouse (via Google+ Hangout)
  Rap supergroup made up of Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joel Ortiz, and Royce Da 5’9
  
• John Sutherland
  Emeritus Professor of Modern English Literature at University College London
  
• Isiah Thomas (via Google+ Hangout)
  Former top 50 NBA basketball player and Chairman and CEO of Isiah International
  
• Touré (via Google+ Hangout)
  American TV presenter, novelist, journalist and cultural critic
  
• Jason Whitlock
  Columnist for Foxsports.com
  
• Benjamin Zephaniah
  Dub poet and musician
  

stream:

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FFS I SHOULDA BOUGHT TICKETS

[local]

sound this might keep me from relapsing

it does completely ruin the minds of children tho

[Thun]

WTF about hip hop on trial

Shall we ban poetry?

The most stupid debate ever

So much more concerning issues and you got weak men crying about hip hop lyrics

[local]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q7eLTG8k1U

We brag on having bread, but none of us are bakers

We all talk having greens, but none of us own acres

If none of us on acres, and none of us grow wheat

Then who will feed our people when our people need to eat

So it seems our people starve from lack of understanding

Cos all we seem to give them is some balling and some dancing

And some talking about our car and imaginary mansions

We should be indicted for bullshit we inciting

Hand the children death and pretend that its exciting

We are advertisements for agony and pain

We exploit the youth, we tell them to join a gang

We tell them dope stories, introduce them to the game

[Thun]

This guy just deaded the debate

[local]

errr can't believe my poz was sat there next to that d*ckhead's rambling

they're gonna have the hardline commenters on the pro side aka black supremacists n the agansters are gonna be weak i can see it

[Benicio del Toney]

Krs coming with that fruit from the tree knowledge.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

lmao @ slaughterhouse

DEAD

[Mr. Gayle]

You aint winning no debate v KRS 1

[Grafter]

tuned in

this is pretty good

[Mr. Gayle]

Hate this argument always going in on Hip Hop and you have groups like Slipknot

[Mr. Gayle]

*Puts on Big Sean - Ass, Ass, Ass, Ass*

[The Flyest]

thought i saw yaya toure on the list

[Guest M12]

pissed im late on this. will watch love and hip hop straight after...

[Mr. Gayle]

lol "is it a man ?"

[Guest M12]

where is this i might have gone if i knew in advance

[Wavant]

These discussions are useless.

Krs is so self-righteous reminds me of certain Aff elders smh.

[Benicio del Toney]

The sad thing is the people who have cases to answer the Lil Waynes, 2 Chainz, Gucci Mane's etc... aren't on the panel.

[Yak_Louis]

Hip Hop is aspiration sold to the masses. Jay-Z capitalises from aspiration

[Guest M12]

joe budden talking niggerish

[local]

ffs i left, came back n they're still talkin about words bitch n nigga

o jesus n now krs goin into the nigga or nigger talk

what a stupid waste of time

any intelligent white men about interested in talkin about the social consequences of drip feeding our children the whole sh*t culture?

preferably ones that don't begin with "i'm white" as if its a disadvantage like that old c*nt

[Yak_Louis]

Jesus

Just black people being politically correct. Its kind of boring

[Mame Biram Diouf]

You cant have instrumentals in hiphop

f*ck off

[Thun]

This debate should never have taken place but on the other hand it exposes the dunces on the panel who are clueless

[Supermalt]

joe budden was a d*ckhead