{"id":1501,"date":"2011-09-06T12:54:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ragtagfilm.com\/blog\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2011-09-06T12:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:54:09","slug":"listen-to-bxr-to-win-tickets-to-beats-rhymes-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/listen-to-bxr-to-win-tickets-to-beats-rhymes-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to BXR to win tickets to Beats, Rhymes and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><em>Beats, Rhymes and Life<\/em>\u00a0is a documentary portrait of A Tribe Called Quest, one of the most influential, groundbreaking groups in hip-hop history. During the 1990s, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg \u2014 two childhood friends from Queens, NY \u2014 joined forces with Ali Shaheed Muhammad to pioneer a fun, alternative type of hip-hop that was embraced by millions. The band abruptly broke up in 1998. Though director Michael Rapaport is clearly a Tribe fan, this is much more than simple hagiography: the film takes us backstage on the 2008 reunion tour, where we witness the tension that exists between Q-Tip and Phife Dawg. Carefully piecing together archival footage and insightful interviews, the stylish, intimate\u00a0<em>Beats, Rhymes and Life<\/em>\u00a0attempts to figure out if the world will ever hear a new Tribe album. \"Riveting. It's two things at once: a loving, magnetic, gloriously alive tribute to a golden age when a group of brilliant young black men and women joined forces to reinvent hip-hop in their own funky, Afrocentric image, and the most penetrating psychological study of a creative partnership in perpetual peril since\u00a0<em>Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster<\/em>.\" (Nathan Rabin,\u00a0<em>The AV Club<\/em>)<\/div>\n<div><strong>Listen to\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bxr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>102.3 BXR\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><strong>for your chance to win a pair of passes to this film. BXR will have a chance to win every day for a week, beginning Monday, September 6.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beats, Rhymes and Life\u00a0is a documentary portrait of A Tribe Called Quest, one of the most influential, groundbreaking groups in hip-hop history. During the 1990s, Q-Tip and Phife Dawg \u2014 two childhood friends from Queens, NY \u2014 joined forces with Ali Shaheed Muhammad to pioneer a fun, alternative type of hip-hop that was embraced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}