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SLINGSHOT HIP HOP

By | January 2008

2008 SUNDANCE DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION FEATURE! There’s also an intense feeling of impending doom throughout “Slingshot Hip Hop” because if the Israeli’s were to discover DAM and other activist hip hop groups, it’s pretty much a given they’d be headed off to prison or worse…

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