Country:South Africa

Director:Weaam Williams

Program:African Panorama

Summary:

This visually stimulating film, pumping with the sound of underground classic songs, explores the 25-year evolution of hip hop in South Africa, from its birth on the Cape Flats through the insurgence of black consciousness and the political uprising in the 1980s in the face of the Apartheid regieme. Interviews with first-generation pioneers of South African hip hop explain how the African-American art form mirrored their experiences and gave youth a medium to express themselves, inciting a timely sense of black pride.