Know What I Mean? : : Reflections on Hip-Hop
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Includes index.
"What's the beef?" : hip hop and its critics -- "How real is this?" : prisons, iPods, pimps, and the search for authentic homes -- This dark diction has become America's addiction" : language, diaspora, and hip hop's bling economy -- "It's trendy to be the conscious MC" : culture, rhetoric, crack, and the politics of rap -- "Cover your eyes as I describe a scene so violent" : violence, machismo, sexism, and homophobia -- "Nappy-head ho's, worse than bitch niggaz" : Don Imus, the crisis of patriarchy, and the death and rebirth of hip hop.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Super interesting! submitted by AGAPHD on June 20, 2020, 9:51pm Super interesting reflections on contemporary culture. Recommended for both hip-hop fans and those interested in American culture more generally.
PUBLISHED
London : Perseus Running [distributor], c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xxviii, 171 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465017164 (pbk.)
0465017169 (pbk.)
SUBJECTS
Rap (Music) -- History and criticism.
Hip-hop.