Hip Hop Uncovered
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| FX | Release Date: February 12, 2021 |
Summary:
The six-part documentary series about the influences behind hip hop music was directed by Rashidi Natara Harper.
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Music
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Feb 11, 2021
Season 1 Review:
FX's six-part documentary series Hip Hop Uncovered is like going to a bookshelf, seeing a multi-volume history of a pivotal genre and grabbing a book from somewhere in the middle. That's not a criticism in any way. ... It's an intermediate course that maybe assumes you've taken the 101 intro — but if you've indeed taken that intro course, Hip Hop Uncovered has intriguing characters, a provocative throughline and a rich approach to culture that I mostly appreciated.
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Feb 12, 2021
Feb 18, 2021
Season 1 Review:
Along with amassing a collection of wild, well-told stories that speak to the level of trust he was able to establish with his subjects, director Rashidi Natara Harper highlights the structural factors that kept these kingmakers from prospering in the straight world: racism, deindustrialization, poverty, drugs, mass incarceration. If The Black Church and Amend explore centuries of oppression, then Uncovered surveys its effects—both the great art and the profound human suffering.
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Air Date: February 12, 2021
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