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Hip-hop is often sold as music that is extremely political, opinionated and most of all, as a genre that remains true to the struggles of the poor. Words like gangsters, poverty and ‘ghetto’ have become synonymous with hip-hop. Most hip-hop heads from rap stars, emcees and deejays to beat-boxers, b-boys and graffiti artists will tell you some depressing story of how tough it was growing up in the ghetto and how they led a life of drugs and crime until they found solace in hip-hop and miraculousl… Continue

Check out South Africa's new hip-hop activist and muso, Ewok, for another run of his hip-hop theatre show, SPITFIRE, at the National Arts Festival this year! He speaks about SPITFIRE, hip-hop theatre, being the 'white boy' in hip-hop and more. Read more on http://www.artsreview.co.za/stage/2009/07/02/ewok-from-childhood-disney-world-fantasies-to-becoming-a-prolific-writer-and-a-hip-hop-activist/