Found in translation: hip-hop theatre fuses the thought and the word, the rhythm and the rhyme, the old and the new; A series on the convergence of hip-hop and theatre.
American Theatre, July, 2004 by Davis, Eisa
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I said it before, and I'm-a say it again. I belong to the church of hip-hop. Cain't help it. If your afterschool program is dancing to a boom box made out of two speakers, a suitcase and a skateboard spraypainted gold, if you remember when The Source magazine was just a double-sided Xerox copy, if you've got Queen Latifah's autograph from back when she used to be a dope MC, you are a hip-hop head, without a doubt. And that I am.
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I also belong to the cult of theatre. My other after-school program was playing Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit, Teeta in Alice ...
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