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“Trapping Ecosystems: Apeshit’s Fugitive Politics of Post/coloniality“
-Carlos Garrido Castellano and J. Griffith Rollefson
On 16 June 2018, Beyoncé and Jay-Z released “Apeshit”—a trap-styled hip hop track featuring a chorus of “I can’t believe we made it / Have you ever seen the crowd going apeshit?” The much-commented on music video for the track was…
A Video Introduction to the Book (from the SMI Summer Lecture Series)
Check out Simran Singh’s amazing article on conspicuous consumption and excess in Ugandan hip hop: “The Ugandan hip-hop image: the uses of activism and excess in fragile sites”
Critical Excess: Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age 