Later, over lunch with the crew at Grimaldi's Pizzeria, Mr. Vila, who also has two daughters, Monica, 24, and Susannah, 17, said he hoped that doing such a hip project would help to bring in a younger audience.
The initial findings of the hip project have recently been published (Havelin et al. 2009).
Fans of the too-hip-for-hipness Project No. 8 will be pleased to find its mini-store spinoff, No. 8a.
We also thank the other members of the HIPs project team for their contributions.
THE HIP HOP PROJECT: In wide release.
THE HIP HOP PROJECT A documentary, directed by Matt Ruskin, about New York City teen-agers who learn to express themselves through rap.
But the album, a digital-only release, was purchased just 6,000 times as a whole, an increasingly common divide with hip-hop projects.
The hackers have worked with DJ Jazzy Jeff to create a custom-cultured set of beats for his hip-hop projects.
He also works on countless underground hip-hop projects, such as Danger Doom, with the rapper MF Doom, making him the rare artist who appeals to both the experimental music heads and the chart kids.
8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street, East Village, (212 353-1600, $20. (Sinagra) THE BEAT MASTERS: DA BEATMINERZ, PRINCE PAUL, NICOLAY (Tonight) The beat-makers behind 90's underground hip-hop projects like Black Moon perform their latest collaborations.
