Hip Hop Revolution (2006)

This visually stimulating film, pumping with the sound of unreleased classics, explores the 25 year journey of hip hop in South Africa, right from its birth on the Cape Flats, through the insurgence of black consciousness and the political uprising in the ‘80s that disrupted the education of many youths. Interviews with Prophets of da City and Shamiel X, the first-generation pioneers of hip hop, explain how the African American art form mirrored their experiences and gave ‘80s youth a medium to express themselves, inciting a timely sense of black pride.