Solomon comissiong biography
A Hip Hop Activist Speaks Out on Social Issues (Paperback).
Mining the Positive Motivators from Hip Hop to Educate is an inspiring collection of memoirs in the life of Solomon Comissiong.!
Hip-hop activist shows rap's power to politicise
Hip Hop, White Supremacy & Capitalism: Why Corporations Infiltrated RAP Music
Solomon Comissiong
Released November 2013
www.solomoncomissiong.com
The politics in early hip-hop music inspired Solomon Comissiong to become an activist, author, lecturer and film-maker.
Green Left Weekly's Mat Ward spoke to him about his work, which uses rap music as a tool to educate and organise.
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Some people doubt the power of music to politicise, but you are living proof that it does.
Tell us about how hearing a lyric about political leader Marcus Garvey when you were growing up turned you on to politics.
This book is a collection of essays that challenge mainstream perspectives on everything, from institutional racism to imperialism to the vastly flawed United.When I first heard a song called "Black and Proud" by a hip-hop artist by the name of Intelligent Hoodlum, within this song I heard the name Marcus Garvey - a name I was not familiar with. I did not know if Intelligent Hoodlum was referencing another rapper or what.
I went and asked my mom if she knew who Marcus Gar