Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles.
It began in 1994 when a group of youths moved their already
renowned open-mic nights from the Good Life, a Crenshaw district
health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts center in Leimert
Park. The local freestyle of articulate, rapid-fire, extemporaneous
delivery, the juxtaposition of meaningful words and sounds, and the
way that MCs followed one another without missing a beat, quickly
became known throughout the LA underground. Leimert Park has long
been a center of African American culture and arts in Los Angeles,
and Project Blowed inspired youth throughout the city to consider
the neighborhood the epicenter of their own cultural movement. "The
Real Hiphop" is an in-depth account of the language and culture of
Project Blowed, based on the seven years Marcyliena Morgan spent
observing the workshop and the KAOS Network. Morgan is a leading
scholar of hiphop, and throughout the volume her ethnographic
analysis of the LA underground opens up into a broader examination
of the artistic and cultural value of hiphop.
Morgan intersperses her observations with excerpts from
interviews and transcripts of freestyle lyrics. Providing a
thorough linguistic interpretation of the music, she teases out the
cultural antecedents and ideologies embedded in the language,
emphases, and wordplay. She discusses the artistic skills and
cultural knowledge MCs must acquire to rock the mic, the
socialization of hiphop culture's core and long-term members, and
the persistent focus on skills, competition, and evaluation. She
brings attention to adults who provided material and moral support
to sustain underground hiphop, identifies the ways that women
choose to participate in Project Blowed, and vividly renders the
dynamics of the workshop's famous lyrical battles.
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