Showing posts with label Bomani Armah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bomani Armah. Show all posts
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Animation leads Bomani Armah to fame and infamy
This article, "His Punch Line Smarts: Hip-Hop Parodist Bomani Armah Juggles Sense of Humor and Identity," by Kevin Merida, Washington Post Staff Writer, Thursday, November 22, 2007; C01, is about a DC man who wrote Read a Book, a satirical hip-hop song, but when it was animated and put out in the big world via BET, he got a lot of grief. It's an interesting article - it reads here like some of the choices made by the animators compounded the mixing of his message.
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