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Hip Hop Theatre

Hip hop theatre is a genre that emerged in the 1990s and blends hip hop aesthetics and sociopolitical content. Dive in with this conversation between Clyde Valentin and Will Power on hip hop culture, or Kamilah Forbes’ essay on the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, which has the mission of “present[ing] live, professionally executed theater written by, and about the Hip-Hop generation.”

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