Viva La Hip Hop

The Fox Theater
1807 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA
Saturday July 31, 2010

Black Star
(Mos Def & Talib Kweli)
Zion I
DJ Mr. E

Showtime: 8:00pm
Ticket price: $41.50
Tickets available on-line at: ticketmaster.com
All Ages

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Articulate and provocative, Black Star looks to classic rappers like KRS-One, Run D.M.C. and Public Enemy to inform their sound. Their self-titled debut grapples with “black love and esteem” and is concerned primarily about the stories that aren’t being told in their communities. They are one of the few hip-hop bands that realize not everyone in the African-American community is involved in a gangsta culture. That fact alone makes them some of the most intelligent rappers to grace the vapid hip-hop scene in the late ’90s.