{"id":988,"date":"2008-12-15T10:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=988"},"modified":"2015-01-07T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:04:54","slug":"gyangsta-flicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Gyangsta Flicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pace <a href=\"http:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/?p=967\">this post<\/a> (see comments for continued convo), thx to <a href=\"http:\/\/spreadtoothin.wordpress.com\/\">Christina<\/a> &#8212; who also wonders how hip-hop&#8217;s use of East Asian imagery fits into all of this (I think it leans more toward the I-talian than the A-rab) &#8212; for pointing me to three mashup &#8220;valorizations of the gangsta&#8221; via the dancehall\/Mavado&#8217;s imagination (both of which take strong cues from hip-hop and Hollywood). These are easy fits given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/feature\/147641-column-the-year-in-reggae-dancehall\/\">what Erin MacLeod calls<\/a> the &#8220;melancholy, sweeping, and spooky strains of cinematic dancehall&#8221; &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4xKscYyJ3VU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4xKscYyJ3VU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tglG9ixSOWg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tglG9ixSOWg&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/plYO6TIEkVk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/plYO6TIEkVk&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>So when is Jollywood (heh) gonna get into the global &#8220;film&#8221; game? No doubt Kingston could give <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cinema_of_Nigeria\">Lagos<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bollywood\">Mumbai<\/a> a run for their money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pace this post (see comments for continued convo), thx to Christina &#8212; who also wonders how hip-hop&#8217;s use of East Asian imagery fits into all of this (I think it leans more toward the I-talian than the A-rab) &#8212; for pointing me to three mashup &#8220;valorizations of the gangsta&#8221; via the dancehall\/Mavado&#8217;s imagination (both of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[110,404,266,402,23,408,407],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-babylonia","tag-hip-hop","tag-hollywood","tag-jamaica","tag-mashup","tag-reggae","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wayneandwax.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}