![]() ![]() Soon the undeniable force of artists like Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, and DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince would knock down the segregated walls of MTV airplay. The rap clips of the early Eighties, like those of Roxanne Shanté, were triumphs of creating a big impression with practically zero budget, mostly shown on Ralph McDaniels’ pioneering New York public television show, Video Music Box. ![]() Kids from every corner of the globe could learn to scratch or do the Humpty Dance. ![]() Dre’s Compton, Juvenile’s New Orleans, Mike Jones’ Houston, and Chief Keef’s Chicago. ![]() The world could now visit Grandmaster Flash’s New York, Dr. Then and now, rap videos serve as ambassadors to sound, fashion, art, and emotion, transforming localized subcultures into vital elements of Planet Rock. To celebrate the music’s 50th anniversary, “Rolling Stone” will be publishing a series of features, historical pieces, op-eds, and lists throughout this year.įrom the moment Run-D.M.C., clad in all-black leather and fedoras, emerged from the Cadillac in the “Rock Box” clip, the music video was turning hip-hop artists into icons. If this isn’t a human flaw, I don’t know what is.HIP-HOP WAS BORN in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. The melancholy of K is due in part to this aspect of his being he will never be able to have that thing that he wants most because it is his nature to deny it. Joi is his satisfaction for this desire but she’s immaterial and employs a surrogate he had no interest in previously despite being propositioned by said surrogate as previously mentioned. My head canon says he’s wired to not develop physical human attachments though he clearly longs for one. I think he’s conflicted in the complexity of his engineering. He’s also propositioned by Luv in another scene where he rejects her and by the pleasure model prostitute employed by the resistance. He’s a replicant, in her employ, not a pleasure model and basically a slave struggling with internal conflicts. I think Joshi was probing K, she’s human and attracted to him but she also knows its wrong for myriad reasons. I know this post is 4 years old but I still think about this film. ![]()
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