“Supposedly what I’m supposed to be and what was meant for me Was told, through the odyssey of my ancestry But now I choose to separate destiny and heredity and Bomb everybody’s perception of our identity” — Karmacy, “Outcasted” While researching Karmacy, I stumbled upon an issue I was completely unaware of – Indians [...]

Born in Soweto (Johannesburg), South Africa in March of 1977, Kgotso Semela, also known as Ben Sharpa, truly embodies what it means to be hip hop. From the outset, hip hop culture has been likened to collage art (Greg Tate famously compared hip hop to African American pastiche artist Romare Bearden). If you want to [...]

One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine… It’s the 10 Crack Commandments Nicholas Conway aka DJ Sho Nuff (Yale University Hip-Hop professor, Flight 808 Contributing Writer) releases the first chapter of his new novel Fuck You Biggie about a member of the Hip-Hop generation struggling to make sense out of our ultramodern world. [...]