While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.
bell hooksTags: hip-hop pop-culture black-men
You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.
Jay-ZTags: music rap hip-hop inner-city
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.
Jay-ZTags: hip-hop
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
Jay-ZA digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall.
Jaron LanierTags: music rap hip-hop sampling
In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief
Laura GoodeTags: young-adult hip-hop
This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the-middle wickeds and queers and misfits and hell-raisers.
Laura GoodeTags: poet hip-hop young-adult-fiction
We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.
Nikesh ShuklaTags: humour basketball hip-hop
Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh.
Mos DefTags: fear soul death mind rap hip-hop mos-def
I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.
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