User talk:Jenngee22

dream hampton (she writes her name in lower case letters, in emulation of feminist author bell hooks, who was an early influence) is an esteemed hip-hop journalist, cultural critic, filmmaker.'

Life and career
Hampton is originally from Detroit, but has lived in Brooklyn and Harlem for most of her life. She studied film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she filmed her neighbor and friend Christopher "Notorious B.I.G." Wallace for a documentary class. She has since been involved in a series of film projects. She was an Associate Producer of VH1's Emmy-award winning Behind the Music: Notorious B.I.G. and Co-Producer of Bigger than Life, the first feature-length documentary on the rapper, directed by Peter Spier. Her short film I am Ali was an entry at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won "Best Short Film" at Vanity Fair's Newport Film Festival. She was a Co-Executive Producer of "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty", 2012, Associate Producer of "The Russian Winter",(2012) Director of the music video "QueenS", 2012 for SubPop artists TheeSatisfaction! "QueenS" was Hamptons music video directorial debut however, she

Hampton has written about music, culture and politics for 20 years. She was the first female editor of The Source magazine, editor in chief of Los Angeles-based Rap Pages Magazine and has been a contributor to Vibe for 15 years, beginning with its launch 1993., The Village Voice, and Spin. She is noted as a "pioneering" black female journalist. Other publications her writings have appeared in include The Detroit News, Harper's Bazaar, Essence, "Ebony", etc. Her Essays have also been included in over dozens of anthologies. Here are two: Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic, 2009 (edited by Michael Eric Dyson) and "Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness", 2012 (edited by Rebecca Walker).

Hampton is co-author of Jay-Z's New York Times bestselling book, Decoded, and also co-authored the unreleased Black Book with him. She is co-writing rapper Q-Tip's memoir, Industry Rules, due to be released in 2011. She was also reportedly working with Sean Combs on his autobiography.

Hampton was a founding member of Malcolm X Grass Roots Movement (MXGM), sponsor of Black August" the yearly tribute concert benefiting political prisoners. Her film about the event, Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert, debuted at Lincoln Center in 2010.

Books

 * Co-author, Decoded, Jay-Z,
 * Co-author, Industry Rules: The World According to Q-Tip, from Linden Blvd. to El Segundo and Beyond, Kamaal 'Q-Tip' Fareed, Random House, on sale July 2011

Essays

 * "D'Angelo: Soul Man", Vibe Magazine, April 2000
 * "Parable of the Writer: Octavia E. Butler, science fiction visionary, 1947–2006", The Village Voice
 * "Dreaming America: Hip Hop Culture", Spin Magazine, Nov 1993

Anthologies

 * "Bad Boy", in The Vibe History of Hip Hop, Three Rivers Press
 * "Born Alone, Die Alone", in Born to use mics: reading Nas's Illmatic By Michael Eric Dyson, Sohail Daulatzai
 * "Audacity", in Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness. Edited by Rebecca Walker (Soft Skull Press, February 1, 2012)

Filmography

 * Behind The Music: The Notorious B.I.G., 1997, Associate Producer
 * I Am Ali, 2002, Director
 * Notorious B.I.G.: Bigger Than Life, 2007, Excutive Producer
 * Black August: A Hip-Hop Documentary Concert, 2010, Director
 * "The Russian Winter" 2012. Associate Producer
 * "An Oversimplification of Her Beauty", 2012. Co-Executive Producer
 * "QueenS", 2012. Music video for SubPop artists, TheeSatisfaction!