All Videos Tagged Degrade (True Skool Network) - True Skool Network 2024-05-18T12:10:07Z https://trueskool.com/video/video/listTagged?tag=Degrade&rss=yes&xn_auth=no Debate: Does Hip-Hop Enhance Society or It Degrade it? tag:trueskool.com,2014-10-02:1464587:Video:437634 2014-10-02T22:32:47.488Z Editor's Pick https://trueskool.com/profile/RentheVinylArchaeologist <a href="https://trueskool.com/video/debate-does-hip-hop-enhance-society-or-it-degrade-it"><br /> <img alt="Thumbnail" height="180" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2177894276?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240"></img><br /> </a> <br></br>Jesse Jackson, KRS-One, Q-Tip, Estelle, ?uestlove, P. J. O'Rourke, Jaron Lanier, and 14 other rappers, poets, academics and pundits came together in London on 26 June to debate the motion, 'Hip-Hop on Trial: Hip-Hop Doesn't Enhance Society, It Degrades it', chaired by the BBC's Emily Maitlis, and moderated online by Jemima Khan.<br></br> <br></br> Presented by… <a href="https://trueskool.com/video/debate-does-hip-hop-enhance-society-or-it-degrade-it"><br /> <img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2177894276?profile=original&amp;width=240&amp;height=180" width="240" height="180" alt="Thumbnail" /><br /> </a><br />Jesse Jackson, KRS-One, Q-Tip, Estelle, ?uestlove, P. J. O'Rourke, Jaron Lanier, and 14 other rappers, poets, academics and pundits came together in London on 26 June to debate the motion, 'Hip-Hop on Trial: Hip-Hop Doesn't Enhance Society, It Degrades it', chaired by the BBC's Emily Maitlis, and moderated online by Jemima Khan.<br /> <br /> Presented by Intelligence Squared and Google+, it was the third in their new joint debate series, Versus. The first ever global debate on hip-hop saw fierce arguments put forward by speakers who were live on stage, and also beamed into the event via Google+ Hangouts, a live multi-person platform.