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Bongo Barbershop

Bongo Barbershop
Genre : Musical
Type : Documentary
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Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 2005
Format : Short
Running time : 8 (in minutes)

An East African MC, Balozi Dola, wanders into a Bronx barbershop on his pilgrimage to find "the real hip hop." Stubeling upon the pioneers of the New York hip hop scene, including Grandmaster Flash's original partner DJ Easy Mike, Balozi enters the scene rhyming with Grandmaster Caz. "Bongo" is the Swahili expression for "Brain" used in local hip hop slang.


Dir: Charlie Ahearn, USA, 2005, 8 min.

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