Dream Hampton

Infobox journalist
name = Dream Hampton


birth_date = 1971
birth_place = Detroit, Michigan

Dream Hampton is an American hip-hop journalist.

Biography

Hampton was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1972 and currently lives in New York City.

Career

Magazines

In 1990, Hampton became the first woman on staff at the "Hip-hop Bible," "The Source" Magazine.Fact|date=July 2007 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." [Wright, Kai. "Hip Hop Kids These Days". The Progressive, October 2004]

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 [Internet Movie Database: I AM ALI, "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0303349/awards"] . 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.

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

In 1994, Hampton co-founded the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's Brooklyn chapter. Fact|date=July 2007 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.

Sources

Articles

[http://www.villagevoice.com/books/0610,hampton,72428,10.html Parable of the Writer: Octavia Butler, science fiction visionary 1947-2006]

[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_11_35/ai_n11830689 Dave Chappelle]

[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n3_v28/ai_19561881 Will Power (cover feature on Will Smith)]