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Toppa Top 10: 10 Caribbean Hip-Hop Pioneers
September 20, 2011
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If you’re familiar with the story of how hip-hop came to be, you’ve surely come across the detail that the man responsible for starting the whole thing in motion, Clive “DJ Kool Herc” Campbell, was born in Jamaica. Lesser known is that an overwhelming number of hip-hop’s earliest and most influential practitioners came from across the Caribbean, from PR to Barbados. Here’s a look at some of the most important ones.
Toppa Top 10: Top 10 Caribbean Style Icons
September 13, 2011
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Already proclaimed a “style icon” by Paper, Complex and, yes, even Okayplayer, Theophilus London has fashion brands tripping over themselves to work with him right now. Watching the Brooklyn-born Trinidadian rapper/singer’s ascension into full-fledged it bwoy, we can’t help but notice that he takes many of his stylistic cues from fellow Caribbeans, from Jean-Michel Basquiat to Fab Five Freddy and Harry Belafonte. Between Theophilus’ emergence and his fellow Trini Anya Ayoung-Chee‘s show-stealing on Project Runway, Caribbean style seems to be having a little moment right now, so it seemed like the perfect time to count down the most iconic practitioners of style from the islands and the Diaspora.
New Jack Swing: Theophilus London x Fab Five Freddy x Sucker Free
July 15, 2011
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Fab Five Freddy and Theophilus London sat down with each other recently for an MTV Sucker Free web special. In what was the pair’s first-ever meeting, they discussed—what else—the ’80s, specifically new wave/hip-hop fusion, and expressed their mutual admiration for each other, with a painting of a huge ass (not to be confused with a huge ass painting) behind them. So what’s that got to do with the our Caribbean mission, you say? Well, while Theophilus’ Trini background has been well documented on this site, we may not have pointed out to you before that Fab Five Freddy is a Haitian. Scratch a major development in hip-hop—in Fred’s case, the merging of hip-hop culture and NYC’s downtown hipster as captured in the seminal flick Wild Style, plus Yo! MTV Raps—and you’ll find a Caribbean. Fred and Theo, whenever you want chat bout that, give us a ring.
