Here's a little story about Silibil N' Brains, two Scottish rappers that faked it but still didn't make it.

🎤 Silibil and Brains: Arbroath's most wanted

🤪 The dumbest idea ever

🤥 Lies and more lies

"Sirens" by Dizzee Rascal

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We set the wayback machine to August 6, 1988 to review and react to the pilot episode of Yo! MTV Raps. This show was a huge part of our upbringing in hip hop!

🎤 The first video ever on Yo!

👑 A glimpse of a star ready to break out

⏰ Public Enemy shouts out rappers to check out

The first episode of Yo! MTV Raps (shout out to The Groove Theory on FB)

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Special episode: Lehigh Valley rapper and nonprofit founder Maverick Makaveli sounds off on Set It Off, plus a live performance of her track "R.B.G.", all before our 30th anniversary screening of the 1996 heist classic at ArtsQuest.

Maverick Makaveli on SoundCloud and Instagram

Umoja Is Unity

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Here's a throwback AND remix of our previous episode on Set It Off, ahead of our 30th anniversary screening at SteelStacks in Bethlehem PA. Get free tix!

👑 Queen Latifah rules

👩🏾 The Sisterhood of Cleo, Stoney, Frankie, and Tisean

🏳️‍🌈 Early LGBT representation in film

🎤 Hip Hop's importance in this film

😵 Systemic oppression then and now

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Don't hate...create!

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Take a ride with us on Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly, the documentary-style film on Netflix that led up to the release of his critically acclaimed Astroworld album.

😍 We break down his relationship with his fans,

🤕 the dark underside of this relationship that foreshadows tragedy to come,

😵 DynoWright takes this film to task for being a 90 minute commercial

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We move within the Breakin' / Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo Cinematic Universe to Pittsburgh with a whole new cast of characters in this 1985 installment. The cheese factor is set to high in this early hip hop musical.

📦 We unpack the good and mostly bad in this film

🌟 We get a glimpse of some stars before they were stars

🧠 BooGie unlocks some core memories!

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Don't hate...irrigate!

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If you are in need of help related to a mental health crisis or suicide, in the United States please dial 988 for 24/7 help.

Mr. Happy ain't a Pharrell banger! This "misguided search for true happiness" is a Vice short film from 2015 starring Chance the Rapper and Marie Oldenbourg.

3️⃣ Chance the Rapper crackles in a powerful film debut

💐 Flowers for the director Colin Tilley

📃 A connection to a seemingly unrelated hip hop classic

Watch Mr. Happy on YouTube

Read Vice interview with Colin Tilley

Read Billboard interview with Chance the Rapper

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We crack open an incredible time capsule of early Hip Hop in New York City! BEDANKT to Dutch filmmaker Bram van Splunteren for this gem.

🔮 Predictions about Hip Hop that came true!

👊🏾 Less acknowledged pioneers of rap get respect

🚪 A special guest none of us saw coming

"The Making of Big Fun in the Big Town" by Bram van Splunteren

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