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A Look at Hip-Hop, 'Beyond Beats and Rhymes'

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February 20, 2007

Filmmaker Byron Hurt's new movie Beyond Beats and Rhymes, documents the impact of the rap music culture on the men who listen and create it.

Guests:

Byron Hurt, writer-director of Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Mark Anthony Neal, professor of black popular culture at Duke University

 
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