Hip-Hop
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The Word is Bond Rap Radio Hour
The Word is Bond Rap Radio Hour is now on the air. We rebranded the podcast and wanted to start off big. We have a new scratching introduction by DJ Inform. Much props on that, sir! We also have an exclusive theme song as our backdrop, done by Hexsagon. We also have a big competition…
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A Hip-Hop Tribute for Mother’s Day
Listen to this special Mother’s Day edition of Know Your History with the player at the bottom of the post. Download the podcast for free. Or continue reading. Happy Mother’s Day! “One of the most important things you can give in life is love. The first thing I knew from my mother was love. Love…
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The History of Women in Hip-Hop
Women have been involved in rap music before hip-hop even had a name, before it was a recorded music phenomenon, and before we had superstars such as Queen Latifah crossover from musician to actor to author to model. She is one of hip-hop’s biggest success stories and she’s a woman. Welcome back to DOPEfm’s 3rd…
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Hip-Hop’s Better Half
Welcome to our third annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular on DOPEfm. We’re an overnight hip-hop radio show and every year at this time, we dedicate all seven hours of our programming to the Women in Hip-Hop. We do this to celebrate International Women’s Day and to shine a spotlight on the achievements of women in…
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Writing Rap Songs With Students
This is the fourth lesson in my unit on Rap Music. In this lesson, I set the parameters of the rap songwriting assignment, I share a few examples of rap songs, and then I put the students into groups and have them start writing. You can download the Smartboard file of this lesson for free…
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Making Rap Beats with Students
This is the third lesson in my unit on rap music. Today, we are looking at creating a drum beat using a simple and free drum machine that can be easily downloaded. There are several of these programs that you can use. I used Hammerhead simply because it was already installed on our school computers.…
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Shad Autograph
Shad is an incredible rapper. In fact, I think he’s one of the best that Canada has ever seen. I had the chance to interview him a few years back and he gave me this autograph. You can listen to the hour-long interview with the player below, download the podcast for free, or read the transcript now.…
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A Lesson Plan on the Structure of Rap Songs
This lesson looks at the structure of rap songs and gets the students writing their first rhymes. You can download this Smartboard lesson for free and have some fun in your music class. Rap is pretty much based around groups of 4. Here you see a basic drum pattern with the kick, snare, kick, snare.…
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Women in Hip-Hop 3 Mixset
This weekend, we celebrated International Women’s Day by dedicating our entire night’s worth of programming on DOPEfm to the Women in Hip-Hop. It was our 3rd Annual Women in Hip-Hop Spectacular and it was a lot of fun delivering great content to you all night long. This is the mixset that kicked off the show…
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Celebrating International Women’s Day – Women in Hip-Hop 3
Beautiful poster done by one of my students DOPEfm celebrates International Women’s Day every year by dedicating the entire overnight program to the Women in Hip-Hop. This year marks the third annual special presentation. For this year’s show I have produced two hours of Know Your History detailing the important moments in female-fronted hip-hop from…