Hip-Hop Friday: Frank Waln’s AbOriginal Soul
This week when I saw Frank Waln’s name in a South Dakota Magazine article, my newfound hip-hop obsession/interest and childhood spent on the Rosebud briefly converged.
This week when I saw Frank Waln’s name in a South Dakota Magazine article, my newfound hip-hop obsession/interest and childhood spent on the Rosebud briefly converged.
I had so much fun with the Hip-Hop Friday post a couple of weeks ago that I’ve decided to make it a regular series. Maybe not every Friday, but at least every once in awhile, when the spirit moves me. Think of it as hip-hop for people who think they don’t like hip-hop. Or maybe hip-hop for parents.
Hip-hop, perhaps more than any other music genre, taps into the power of language and story.
Intensity is not always easy to live with or comfortable to watch, but it is also never boring. In the words of developmental psychologist Lev Vygotsky, “People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”