Date: Thursday, 1 June 2023
Time: 17:00 - 21:00
Youngblood Gallery
70-74 Bree Street
Cape Town
Hip hop is global, lapping on every shore and landing at every airport. But what does hip-hop mean? Is it the music with a chest-thumping beat? The rapid-fire lyrics rapped into a handheld mic? Gravity-defying dance steps? Writers turning walls into canvases with larger-than-life letters and illustrations?
The answer is all of the above—and more. Hip-hop embraces these artistic elements, most definitely. But it also has blended and transcended them to become a means for seeing, celebrating, experiencing, understanding, confronting, and commenting on life and the world. Hip hop, in other words, is a way of living—a culture.
