It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise Of The Post-Hip-Hop Generation - Plot & Excerpts
LET’S GET FREE Steve Biko, a nonviolent, antiapartheid activist famous for proclaiming that “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed,” and “Black is beautiful,” is brutally beaten to death by South African police. His death sparks international awareness about the brutal regime of apartheid. Grandmaster Flash and Grand Wizard Theodore create scratching, a turntable-based technique and instrumental advancement in DJing where scratches are produced by moving a vinyl record back and forth while it plays on the turntable. Flash describes scratching as “nothing but the back-cueing that you hear in your ear before you push it [the recorded sound] out to the crowd.” On February 3, ABC airs the final episode of the miniseries Roots, based on Alex Haley’s genealogical novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The final episode of Roots achieves the highest-ever ratings for a single program. Roots, which stars Maya Angelou, LeVar Burton, O.
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