![]() ![]() ![]() Even their name was a statement: Black Star was the shipping line launched by Marcus Garvey, the Jamaican campaigning politician whose pan-African philosophy inspired the Rastafarian movement. Black Star was focused on what it meant to be an African-American in the world at that time. Hip-hop tends to write about itself, to be thinking about what’s going on within its own community, and Black Star were no exception, though instead of focusing on the gangsta style that had tended to rule the 90s, they took their lead from the likes of Boogie Down Productions: artists who went from being Criminal Minded to delivering Edutainment, a path doubtless partly shaped by the slaying of one half of the group, Scott La Rock.
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