American machismo is mass-produced and comodified through mainstream hip hop. This is a music that was pounded out on the lips and fingertips of former gang members on the streets of New York City as a way to curb the gang violence that had destroyed their communities. The heavy beat and rhythmic tones became a freedom song, a protest and revolution against oppressive systems sung by the people for the people. How has this music changed, has it? Through hip-hop our American youth are told violence, sex and money makes a man. Kids from all different ethnic, racial and class backgrounds hear the message reverberated through speakers on TV's, radios, cars and the clubs. Yet the freedom song, the protest and revolution has not been lost.

Sol Productions has created the revolutionary film "World Wide" to bring light to underground American hip-hop and international hip-hop. American mainstream hip-hop has leaked out of our carefully hewn country lines and kids all over the world are embracing the hip-hop movement as their own. Not only are they are embracing the original ideals of hip-hop but they are using the movement to call for a revolution of their own, within their own political and social contexts. With footage from all over the world, the goal of the film is to showcase hip hop's usage as a political and revolutionary tool to fight oppression and injustice throughout the world. As the world gets smaller, "World Wide" helps us all understand our responsibilities as world citizens.

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