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The All Peoples Revolutionary Front hosted The Co-Optation of Hip Hop at Lincoln High School’s Black Box Theater.
Charlie Rock:
“Right now i think that hip hop is in a dark place… This is how the media and the capitalism of consumers treat the dancers. Watch music videos. When you see dancers in these videos. How often do you see their faces? Never. They always highlight the artist. But they want to use BBoys in their videos and their commercials to highlight their product, but they will never show their faces… but how I know some of those dancers, I know them by their moves, because I have been around them for so long.”
Abel Macias:
“Capitalism created the conditions where Hip Hop came out of. Now that hasn’t changed, what has changed is Hip Hop. The foundations are still there, but then capitalism saw this opportunity and said look, look at all these people, how can we make money off of this?’ And that’s where we’re at today. So we have the opportunity to take Hip Hop back from the capitalist culture. They took it from us, but it belongs to us, and we gotta to take it back.”
- spotted at San Diego Indymedia
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