Red Bull Music Academy | Melvin van Peebles on Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, and Wall Street | Red Bull Music Academy @RBMA | Uploaded 6 years ago | Updated 3 hours ago
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It’s a wonder there aren’t statues in honour of Melvin van Peebles. He is a true pioneer in an extraordinary array of fields – the first black movie director of the modern age, one of the first people to talk over the music and, thus, a progenitor of hip-hop – at one time, he even managed to become the only black trader on the American Stock Exchange.
In his lecture at the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy, he told us all about his incredible life in film and music, from sleeping on park benches to blowing up police cars, and why all he wants to do is tell stories.
► redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/melvin-van-peebles-dont-write-a-check-your-ass-cant-cash
#MelvinvanPeebles #HipHop #RedBullMusicAcademy
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TOPICS:
4:12 – Life story
8:06 – Storytelling
29:27 – Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
43:55 – Politics
47:44 – Wall Street
1:04:52 – Watermelon Man
MUSIC:
22:00 – Melvin van Peebles – “Lilly Done the Zampoughi Everytime I Pulled Her Coattail” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSHHzfbBG8
23:03 – Melvin van Peebles – “10th And Greenwich (Women’s House of Detention)” youtube.com/watch?v=4sHQEXTL8Hg&t=1430s
26:22 – Melvin van Peebles – “Put a Curse on You” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHMhDiiXAA
46:47 – Melvin van Peebles – “Come on Feet Do Your Thing” youtube.com/watch?v=O4rhmFS9gww
The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
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It’s a wonder there aren’t statues in honour of Melvin van Peebles. He is a true pioneer in an extraordinary array of fields – the first black movie director of the modern age, one of the first people to talk over the music and, thus, a progenitor of hip-hop – at one time, he even managed to become the only black trader on the American Stock Exchange.
In his lecture at the 2008 Red Bull Music Academy, he told us all about his incredible life in film and music, from sleeping on park benches to blowing up police cars, and why all he wants to do is tell stories.
► redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/melvin-van-peebles-dont-write-a-check-your-ass-cant-cash
#MelvinvanPeebles #HipHop #RedBullMusicAcademy
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TOPICS:
4:12 – Life story
8:06 – Storytelling
29:27 – Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song
43:55 – Politics
47:44 – Wall Street
1:04:52 – Watermelon Man
MUSIC:
22:00 – Melvin van Peebles – “Lilly Done the Zampoughi Everytime I Pulled Her Coattail” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voSHHzfbBG8
23:03 – Melvin van Peebles – “10th And Greenwich (Women’s House of Detention)” youtube.com/watch?v=4sHQEXTL8Hg&t=1430s
26:22 – Melvin van Peebles – “Put a Curse on You” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBHMhDiiXAA
46:47 – Melvin van Peebles – “Come on Feet Do Your Thing” youtube.com/watch?v=O4rhmFS9gww
The Red Bull Music Academy is a global music institution committed to fostering creativity in music. We celebrate music, its culture, and the transformative minds behind it. Begun in 1998, the Academy has taken the core principles that underlie its annual workshop for selected participants and applied this curatorial approach to events, lectures, and city-wide festivals throughout the year.
► Visit Red Bull TV: http://win.gs/1uy4YFF
► Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://win.gs/SubscribeRBMA
► Visit our official website: http://win.gs/avjLrK
► Our latest videos on YouTube: http://bit.ly/12nkX7h
► Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/Lx4wQy
► Like us on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/12N5Ch0
