Melle Mel – 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 Melle Mel – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 Russell Peters: Red, White and Brown (TV) https://mrqe.com/movie/russell-peters-red-white-and-brown-m100078456/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/russell-peters-red-white-and-brown-m100078456/ In this sold-out performance, Canadian comic Russell Peters skewers racial stereotypes as he offers his audacious take on multiculturalism–including his Indian heritage and culture clashes around the world. Recorded live at Madison Square Garden’s WAMU theater and broadcast on Showtime, this stand-up concert is not to be missed. Red, White and Brown is the second stand-up comedy album by Canadian comedian Russell Peters, recorded at the WAMU Theatre in Madison Square Garden on February 2, 2008.[3] The CD/DVD was released in Canada on September 30, 2008, and in the U.S. on January 27, 2009, debuting at #3 on the Canadian Albums Chart.[4] The hip hop theme music was produced by Marco Polo, and legendary MC Melle Mel introduced Peters to the stage.

]]> “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.

]]> Word https://mrqe.com/movie/word-m100006146/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/word-m100006146/ A documentary about the early hip-hop scene in New York City.

]]> 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.

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