In 1997 Rhymefest defeated Eminem in the Scribble Jam freestyle battle: watch for :38 "Ima keep this nigga bouncin like a Suge Knight check" - RhymefestĪlong with The Scribbling Idiots, Mr. Later, Cincinnati hosted the first major hip hop festival, Scribble Jam (1996-2008), which predated today's festivals such as Rock The Bells, and helped launch the careers of Wordsworth, Murs, Slug, Eyedea, Brother Ali, Lyrics Born, Eminem, Sage Francis, and Rhymefest. Artists from Led Zeppelin to James Brown came to the Nati to record making Cinci a sort of mixture of Nashville and Detroit. Reid and path breaking hip hop artists Mood, Hi-Tek, and IsWhat? was projected to be the next major music city. Cincinnati, as the home to funk and R&B legends Bootsy Collins and the Isley Brother jazz great Count Base D, the music industry legend L.A.
This may be shocking to many of you but you should remember that Cincinnati actually has a long history of musical creativity - in funk, blues, jazz, and rock. Hopefully, we are able, in plain language, able to present the multiple layers involved in this dilemma (Click on this link: Framing Abu Ghraib).Ĭincinnati (and the surrounding areas) has become the home of one of the most serious hip hop movements in the nation.
We offer an analysis of the media, the president, and public opinion in an attempt to understand the role that "we the people" play in the actions of our government. What we have missed in this dialogue is that the actions of our government and our military have profound consequences on our long term security as well as the security of our troops.įor those of you interested in the subject, we would like to offer just a small snippet of the research we have been working on. We have heard FORMER! presidential candidate Mitt Romney profess that he would return to the Bush torture paradigm and we have watched as Fox news pundits have advocated the use of torture on suspected terrorists. From our unscientific polls of friends and acquaintance, we have come to the conclusion that Americans are in favor of anything they think will make them safe. For the past couple years we have been trying to make sense of how the American people have understood the role of torture in the war on terror.