Melvin Van Peebles Supports The Occupy Wall Street Movement With His 1971 Song From “Watermelon Man”

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Famed director Melvin Van Peebles, who knows his share of controversy, decided to lend his support to the Occupy Wall Street Movement. His 1971 song “Love That’s America,” from his first Hollywood film Watermelon Man, has been used with various OWS promotional videos circulating on the web now. The latest one, below, is by Cypher Films.

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Sylvia Robinson, Who Helped Make ‘Rapper’s Delight,’ Has Died : The Record : NPR

 

A little more than 20 years later she co-founded Sugar Hill Records and came up with the idea for the first commercially-successful hip-hop release, 1979’s “Rapper’s Delight,” by The Sugarhill Gang. Her label also signed Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and released “The Message,” from the album of the same name, in 1982.

Robinson died Thursday morning at a New Jersey hospital at the age of 75.

 

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