Grandmaster Caz – MRQE https://mrqe.com Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:22:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Grandmaster Caz – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 “Fight the Power How Hip Hop Changed the World” https://mrqe.com/movie/fight-the-power-how-hip-hop-changed-the-world-tv-m100143051/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/fight-the-power-how-hip-hop-changed-the-world-tv-m100143051/ Public Enemys Chuck D leads a cast of hip-hop icons and leading African-American and Latino cultural commentators as they chart the factors that led to the birth of the revolutionary art form of hip-hop in 1970s New York, as well as the creation of the seminal hit The Message.

They evoke a picture of how, after the turbulence of the 60s and the civil rights struggles, desperate social conditions and the experience of countless dispossessed people of colour living in a city mired in crisis helped give birth to a new art form.

]]> Sample This https://mrqe.com/movie/sample-this-m100107403/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/sample-this-m100107403/ A documentary that reveals how a forgotten record by the Incredible Bongo Band helped cement the foundation of hip hop when DJ Herc extended its percussion by playing them back to back, creating an anthem on the streets of the Bronx.

]]> Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap https://mrqe.com/movie/something-from-nothing-the-art-of-rap-m100099115/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/something-from-nothing-the-art-of-rap-m100099115/ SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE ART OF RAP is a feature length performance documentary about the runaway juggernaut that is Rap music. At the wheel of this unstoppable beast is the film’s director and interviewer Ice-T. Taking us on a deeply personal journey Ice-T uncovers how this music of the street has grown to dominate the world. Along the way Ice-T meets a whole spectrum of Hip-Hop talent, from founders, to new faces, to the global superstars like Eminem, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West. He exposes the roots and history of Rap and then, through meeting many of its most famous protagonists, studies the living mechanism of the music to reveal ‘The Art Of Rap’. This extraordinary film features unique performances from the entire cast, without resorting to archive material, to build a fresh and surprising take on the phenomenon that is Rap.

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