Dream Hampton

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Dream Hampton
Born	1971
Birth place	Detroit, Michigan
Circumstances
Notable credit(s)

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Dream Hampton is an American hip-hop journalist.

1 Biography
2 Career
3 Sources
4 Articles

[edit] Biography

Hampton was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1971 and currently lives in New York City.

[edit] Career

[edit] Magazines

In 1990, Hampton became the first woman on staff at the "Hip-hop Bible," The Source Magazine.^{[citation needed]} Hampton penned essays on misogyny, police brutality, and Winnie Mandela. She also profiled Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur early in their careers.

As a contributing writer at Vibe since the magazine's launch in 1993, Hampton wrote career-defining articles on Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and D'Angelo. Her byline has appeared in The Village Voice, Spin, The Detroit News, Harper's Bazaar, Essence, Parenting, and others. Her essays and articles have appeared in a dozen anthologies including Rock She Wrote, The Vibe History of Hip-Hop, and And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years. Hampton co-authored rapper Jay-Z's unreleased autobiography The Black Book.^[1]

[edit] Film

Hampton's short film I AM ALI was an official entry in the 2002 Sundance Film Festival and won the Jury Award at Vanity Fair's Newport Beach Film Festival^[2]. The former NYU film student was an associate producer on VH1's Emmy Award winning "Behind The Music: The Notorious B.I.G." in which she is also featured as an interviewee. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159156/ Hampton co-produced "Bigger Than Life" (Image Entertainment, 2007), the first feature-length documentary on Notorious B.I.G.'s life.

[edit] Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

In 1994, Hampton co-founded the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's Brooklyn chapter.^{[citation needed]} The non-profit organization focuses on racial justice and human rights in order to spread awareness of U.S. political prisoners Mutulu Shakur, Sundiata Acoli, and Mumia Abu-Jamal through its Black August concert series, an annual hip-hop fundraiser that has hosted cultural exchange tours taking rappers Mos Def, Common, dead prez, Talib Kweli, and others to Cuba and South Africa.

[edit] Sources

^ Wright, Kai. Hip Hop Kids These Days. The Progressive, October 2004
^ Internet Movie Database: I AM ALI, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303349/awards