Posted by | Cyrena Rose
Motion…Hip-Hop Doesn’t Enhance Society, It Degrades it?
Jesse Jackson, KRS-One, Q-Tip, Estelle, ?uestlove, Touré, Michael Eric Dyson, Tricia Rose, dream hampton, P. J. O’Rourke, Jaron Lanier, and other rappers, poets, academics and pundits came together in London on June 26th to debate the motion.
The first ever global debate on hip-hop saw fierce arguments put forward by speakers who were live on stage, and also beamed into the event via Google+ Hangouts, a live multi-person platform.
Presented by Intelligence Squared and Google+, it was the third in their new joint debate series, Versus. The debate was chaired by the BBC’s Emily Maitlis, and moderated online by Jemima Khan.
If you have time, take a look at the debate (almost 2 hrs, get your snacks):[youtube id=”r3-7Y0xG89Q” width=”600″ height=”350″]
