Hip-Hop in comedy

As hip-hop becomes more and more part of our culture it shows up in places that we might not have seen it before. Hip-hop is now showing up in comedy, not only on film and television, but in the nightclubs too. I think that Dave Chappelle is probably one of the leading comics that is in to the Hip-hop culture. At the end of his shows he usually as a hip-hop performance touching on artists from snoop dog to mos def. He plays on the joke that tupac is actually still alive (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ABquFTDGOUM ). Dave has the hip-hop style and moreover he is in touch with the culture. Dave's love for hip-hop is played out in his skits, his jokes, and it is truly appreciated when he invited hip-hop artists to his show to perform to the audience. He has helped spread hip hop to more people through his television show and allowed his viewing audience at home and in the studio to experience hip-hop in a different form.

Another Hip-hopper that has used comedy to spread the culture is Nick Cannon. Nicks show Wild'N'Out on MTV is probably one of the better shows on television that brings hip-hop and comedy together. one of my favorite segments is when they take a nursery rhyme and put a hip-hop twist on it. This clip is of Lil Jon remix in "london bridges falling down" (it's the second peformance after nick cannons group performs http://youtube.com/watch?v=eDPMIiERpZk). At the end of the show they have a freestyle comedic battle where a track is played and the comedians and the guests battle eachother with jokes. Its a really entertaining show and mixing the comedy with the hip-hop is an instant winner in my book.
I think that ice cube probably is one of the innovators of bringing hip-hop and comedy to the big screen. Although his series of movies (Friday.....Friday After Next....etc) we not necessarily hip hop based, they did show African American culture as Ice cube had probably experienced it. Because Cube is a hip-hop artist, he did a very good thing that help bring hip-hop to the big screen in a very big way